Chief editor | Howard Rushmore (before 1958) Jay Nelson Tuck |
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Managing editor | A. P. Govoni |
Associate editor | Jay Breen, Edward Gibbons |
Staff writers | Mike Connolly, Aline Mosby, Florabel Muir, Agnes Underwood |
Categories | Celebrity, investigative, consumer advocacy |
Frequency | Quarterly, then bimonthly |
Publisher | Robert Harrison (before 1958) Hy Steirman |
Total circulation (1955) | 5 million |
Founder | Robert Harrison |
Founded | 1952 |
First issue | December 1952 |
Final issue | 1978 |
Company | Confidential Inc. (before 1958) By-Line Publications, Inc. |
Country | United States |
Based in | New York City, New York |
Language | English |
Confidential was an American magazine considered a pioneer in scandal, gossip and exposé journalism. Founded by Robert Harrison, it was published quarterly from December 1952 to August 1953 and then bi-monthly until it ceased publication in 1978.