Christina Crawford

The publication was announced at Comdex in November 1982 and first appeared on newsstands in March 1983, staff originally consisted of people who left en masse PC Magazine after the publication was acquired by Ziff-Davis [2 ].

The magazine was founded by David Bunnell and Cheryl Woodard, and his first editor was Andrew Fluegelman.

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The PC World magazine and website have won a number of awards of Folio, the American Society of Business Publication Editors, MIN, the Western Publications Association and other organizations, it is also one of technology magazines rare to have a finalist for National Magazine Awards.

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Many known techniques and writers have contributed to PC World, including Steve Bass, Daniel Tynan, Christina Wood, Stephen Manes, Lincoln Spector, Stewart Alsop, David Coursey, James A. Martin and others. The editors have included Harry Miller, Richard Landry, Eric Knorr, Phil Lemmons, Cathryn Baskin, Kevin McKean, and Harry McCracken.

In 2005, the exhibition Digital Duo has been slightly renamed and relaunched as PC World Digital Duo and ran for 26 episodes.

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In 2006, PC World 's rate base of 750,000 audited circulation makes the biggest computer magazine in the world [1].

The January 9, 2007, editor Rex Farrance was killed after being shot during a robbery attempt at home invasion [3].

[Edit] Country

Based in San Francisco, original edition of PC World is published in the U.S. but it is also available in other countries (51 in total), sometimes under a different name:

• PC World Albania, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, India (from July 2006), Italy, Kosovo, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Spain, Romania, Turkey , Vietnam, Ecuador.
• PC Advisor in the United Kingdom. (Another magazine called Personal Computer World, and PC World retailer or related to PC World magazine already exist in this market.)
• PC Welt, the tongue is German edition.
• Info Komputer, is the Indonesian-language edition.
• Kompiuterija, is the edition of the Lithuanian language.
• The Gioi Vi Tinh, is the Vietnamese language edition

[Edit] Controversy

In May 2007, McCracken, resigned abruptly in controversial circumstances. According to sources quoted in Wired magazine, McCracken quit abruptly because the new CEO of PC World, Colin Crawford, has tried to kill a story negative about Apple and Steve Jobs [4]. Crawford responded, calling the news of the resignation of McCracken "inaccurate". [5] CNET later that McCracken had told my colleagues that IDG "has pressure on him to avoid stories that were critical of major advertisers." [6] [7] On May 9, Crawford was transferred to another department and McCracken returned to PC World [8].