History
The magazine was founded in 1984 by Eric Utne and Nina Rothschild Utne as Utne Reader. Utne chaired the magazine until the late 1990s when Rothschild took over.
The cover logo was changed to simply Utne in 2003, continuing until 2006, with the subtitle, A Different Read on Life.
In 2006, the magazine was purchased by Ogden Publications, publishers of Grit, Mother Earth News, Natural Home, and other magazines. The earlier title Utne Reader was brought back, and the magazine refocused on its original mission to reprint "the best of the alternative press".
According to The New York Times, Utne Reader was part of the salon movement of the 1980s, devoted to debate on the issues of the day. Utne Reader was an early source of coverage of the mythopoetic men's movement when it first surfaced in the early 1990s.
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