TIME

Briton Hadden and Henry Luce met at Yale UniversityYale UniversityYale University is a research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Its predecessor, the Collegiate School, received a charter in 1701. Trustees chose New Haven in 1716; the institution became Yale College in 1718 and Yale University in 1887. Yale provides undergraduate, graduate and professional education and has 14 undergraduate residential colleges. As of October 2026, its president was Maurie McInnis, who took office in July 2024. In 2026, Yale expanded aid for incoming undergraduates and celebrated its 325th anniversary.Open the full entry and shared a vision of a newsmagazine that would concisely inform busy readers about current events. On March 3, 1923, Time published its first issue in New York, becoming the first weekly news magazine in the United States.⁠[1][2]

In 1927, TIME named its first Man of the Year; the first honoree was Charles Lindbergh, the aviator who had flown solo across the Atlantic.⁠[3]

In 1989, the publisher Time Inc. merged with Warner Communications, and TIME became a publication of Time Warner. From 2000 it belonged to AOL Time Warner, which reverted to the name Time Warner in 2003.⁠[2]

In 1999, TIME changed Man of the Year to the gender-neutral Person of the Year; the first recipient under the new name was Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. That same year, TIME published its first TIME 100 list of influential people, which it has published annually since 2004.⁠[4][5]

On June 6, 2014, Time Warner completed the spin-off of Time Inc., and TIME, together with Time Inc., became a publication of an independent public company.⁠[6]

On January 31, 2018, Meredith Corporation completed its acquisition of Time Inc.; Time Inc. shareholders received $18.50 per share in cash, in a transaction valued at $2.8 billion.⁠[7]

On September 16, 2018, Meredith announced that it would sell the TIME media brand to Marc and Lynne Benioff for $190 million in cash. The Benioffs were purchasing TIME personally, and the transaction was unrelated to Salesforce, the company Marc Benioff founded. The transaction closed on November 1, 2018.⁠[8][9][10]

In early 2020, TIME formed TIME Studios, its film and television production division. As of November 2021, it had generated more than $70 million in cumulative revenue, including approximately $50 million in 2021.⁠[11]

In March 2021, TIME auctioned three covers as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), including the first cover designed exclusively as an NFT.⁠[12]

In April 2021, TIME began accepting cryptocurrency as payment for digital subscriptions. That same month, TIME partnered with Grayscale on a content series, receiving its fees in bitcoin and holding bitcoin on its balance sheet.⁠[12][13]

In September 2021, TIME launched TIMEPieces, an NFT project that brings cryptocurrency enthusiasts together through a Discord community. Keith Grossman, then President of TIME, said that the NFT business had generated a profit of more than $10 million in about a year.⁠[14][14]

On November 18, 2021, TIME announced a partnership with Galaxy DigitalGalaxy DigitalGalaxy Digital (Galaxy Digital Inc., Nasdaq and Toronto Stock Exchange: GLXY) is a New York-based digital asset financial services and data center infrastructure company founded by Mike Novogratz, which says it was founded in 2018. It provides institutional clients with digital asset trading, lending, investment banking, asset management, staking, and custody technology services, and is building data centers in Texas for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.Open the full entry to produce metaverse-related content, with the partnership fees paid entirely in ether, which TIME holds on its balance sheet.⁠[15]

On November 7, 2022, TIME announced the appointment of Jessica Sibley as Chief Executive Officer, effective November 21; Edward Felsenthal became Executive Chairman while remaining Editor in Chief.⁠[16][16]

On April 24, 2023, TIME named Sam Jacobs Editor-in-Chief, succeeding Edward Felsenthal, who had stepped down in March of that year. Jacobs, then 37, is the 19th top editor in TIME’s history and the youngest editor to lead TIME since Henry Luce.⁠[17]

In December 2024, TIME and Scale AI launched a generative conversational experience tied to the Person of the Year selection. On November 10, 2025, TIME launched the TIME AI Agent, an AI platform built on its reporting and on generative technology.⁠[18][18]

On September 30, 2026, TIME released its 2026 TIME100 Next list of emerging influential people; the list was launched in 2019. At that time, Jessica Sibley was still Chief Executive Officer and Sam Jacobs was still Editor-in-Chief.⁠[19]

TIME: Official website: https://time.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[20]

X: Official account: https://x.com/TIME (opens in a new window)⁠[20]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Official account: https://www.linkedin.com/company/time/ (opens in a new window)⁠[21]

YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry: Official channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TIME (opens in a new window)⁠[22]