--- title: The Impact of TIME’s First Cover description: Nancy Gibbs, the first woman to be editor-in-chief of TIME, on the lasting influence of the magazine's 1923 debut. canonical: https://time.com/collections/a-century-of-impact/6257019/first-issue-time-magazine/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-02-28T12:00:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T05:09:42.578Z article:section: History og:title: ‘News With Attitude’: The Impact of TIME’s First Cover: 100 Years of TIME og:description: ‘News With Attitude’: The Impact of TIME’s First Cover: TIME revisits 100 years of making history og:url: https://time.com/collections/a-century-of-impact/6257019/first-issue-time-magazine/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1658f6d4b36064a8/698a3aa34ee262e0a131b232/1ST-cover-wide16x9.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 2400 og:image:height: 1350 og:image:alt: ‘News With Attitude’: The Impact of TIME’s First Cover: 100 Years of TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: ‘News With Attitude’: The Impact of TIME’s First Cover: 100 Years of TIME twitter:description: ‘News With Attitude’: The Impact of TIME’s First Cover: TIME revisits 100 years of making history twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1658f6d4b36064a8/698a3aa34ee262e0a131b232/1ST-cover-wide16x9.jpg?branch=production --- Feb 28, 2023 # ‘News With Attitude’: The Impact of TIME’s First Cover > Sponsored content. 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There they spent the final hours cutting, pasting, and fine-tuning [the first issue](https://time.com/6258493/joseph-gurney-cannon-time-first-issue/) of the magazine that would come to define [the American Century](https://time.com/3741856/the-american-century-isnt-over/). It was a skinny issue, stripped-­down stories slotted into 22 sections, designed for an age of information overload, to be read in an hour—its unique value proposition signaled in its very name. [**_Read the First Issue in the TIME Vault_**](http://www.time.com/vault/issue/1923-03-03/page/1) **_and_** [**_the cover story on TIME.com_**](https://time.com/6258493/joseph-gurney-cannon-time-first-issue/) The most important fact of this first cover is not the charcoal portrait or filigree border—it would be four years before a designer proposed the iconic red one. It was the name TIME (chosen over Facts), and even more, The Weekly News-Magazine. No such thing had existed before—no such artful, even arrogant, arrangement of all the world’s news into tidy categories. The “cover story” about the coming retirement of legendary GOP lawmaker [“Uncle Joe” Cannon](https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1800-1850/Speaker-of-the-House-Joseph-Gurney-Cannon-of-Illinois/) ran less than a column. From the first, this was news with attitude: “Never did a man employ the office of Speaker,” TIME declared of Cannon, “with less regard for its theoretical impartiality.”  The future co-founders of TIME, Henry Luce (left) and Briton Hadden (right), at Hotchkiss Prepatory School in Lakeville, Conn., in 1916. The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock The choice of Cannon for the cover spoke to Luce and Hadden’s conviction that [people don’t just make news, they make history](https://time.com/4116950/amazing-historical-artifacts-from-time/), destiny as personality, and so that week and every week to come for decades, it would almost always be a person or persons on the cover of TIME. Cannon had made plenty of news and history in his 46 years in Congress, eight as Speaker. A staunch conservative and fierce disciplinarian, he wielded total control over who sat on what committees and which bills would ever make it to a vote. “Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks,” he once said, “but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.” _Gibbs, the first woman to be editor-in-chief of TIME, is the Edward R. 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