Editing Tiger Beat

{{short description|American magazine}}
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| image_caption   = ''Tiger Beat'' magazine, first issue
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| frequency       = Monthly
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| category        = Teen, celebrity
| company         = Tiger Beat Media, Inc.
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| firstdate       = September 1965
| lastdate        = Winter 2019
| country         = United States
| based           = California
| language        = English
| issn            = 0040-7380
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{{Portal |Children's literature}}
'''''Tiger Beat''''' was an American [[teen magazine|teen]] [[fan magazine]] published by The Laufer Company and marketed primarily to [[adolescent]] girls. The magazine had a paper edition that was sold at stores until December 2018, and afterward was published exclusively online until 2021.

==History and profile==
''Tiger Beat'' was founded in September 1965<ref>{{cite news|author=Alex French|title=The Very First Issues of 19 Famous Magazines|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/50299/very-first-issues-19-famous-magazines|access-date=August 10, 2015|work=Mental Floss}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Tweens, Teens, and Magazines|url=https://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/tweens-teens-and-magazines-fact-sheet.pdf|publisher=Kaiser Family Foundation|access-date=19 August 2015|date=January 2013|archive-date=8 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208234750/https://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/tweens-teens-and-magazines-fact-sheet.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> by Charles "Chuck" Laufer, his brother Ira Laufer, and television producer and host [[Lloyd Thaxton]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Lloyd Thaxton|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0857191/?ref_=nv_sr_1|publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.|access-date=2017-04-06}}</ref> The magazine featured [[teen idol]] [[gossip]] and carried articles on [[film|movie]]s, [[music]] and [[fashion]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OwkEAAAAMBAJ&q=tiger+beat+magazine+founder&pg=PA10|title=Billboard|date=May 5, 1973|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|via=Google Books}}</ref> Charles Laufer described the magazine's content as "guys in their 20s singing 'La La' songs to 13-year-old girls."<ref>{{cite web|title=From Dylan to Bieber: A 'Tiger Beat' Cover Odyssey|url=http://flavorwire.com/170380/from-dylan-to-bieber-a-tiger-beat-cover-odyssey-1965-present|publisher=Flavorpill Media|access-date=2017-04-07}}</ref>

A distinctive element of ''Tiger Beat'' was its covers, which featured cut-and-paste [[collage]]d photos – primarily [[head shot]]s – of current teen idols. For the first twelve issues, Thaxton's face appeared at the top corner of the cover (at first the magazine was titled ''Lloyd Thaxton's Tiger Beat''), and he also contributed a column.<ref>{{cite news|title=Zany host of popular television dance show|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-oct-08-me-thaxton8-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=2008-10-08|access-date=2017-04-06}}</ref> After 2016, the magazine cover featured a single image of a celebrity.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=How Teen Mag Tiger Beat Is Evolving to Target Celeb-Obsessed Gen Z-ers|url=https://www.adweek.com/digital/how-teen-mag-tiger-beat-evolving-target-celeb-obsessed-gen-z-ers-170114/|magazine=AdWeek|date=2016-03-15|access-date=2018-07-15}}</ref>

During the 1960s, The Laufer Company leveraged the [[teen magazine|teen]] market dominated by ''Tiger Beat'' with similar magazines, including ''FaVE'' and ''Monkee Spectacular.''<ref>{{cite web|title=Keeping Up With Your Favs – The Rise of Tiger Beat and The Laufer Company Magazines|url=http://www.loti.com/sixties_music/tiger_beat_magazine.htm|publisher=Loti.com|access-date=2017-04-07}}</ref> In 1998, ''Tiger Beat'' was sold by publisher [[Macfadden Publications|Sterling/MacFadden]] to [[RentPath|Primedia]], which in 2003 sold the magazine to Scott Laufer, the son of magazine founder Charles Laufer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-21-ca-5551-story.html|title=Names Change, but Hearts Beat the Same|date=July 21, 1998|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> Until 2014, Laufer also produced the similar teen magazine ''[[Bop (magazine)|Bop]]''.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/technology/28iht-tween.1.5893663.html ''The New York Times''] 28 May 2007</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A farewell to Bop|url=http://jezebel.com/a-farewell-to-bop-the-classic-teen-magazine-1983-2014-1610326575|publisher=Gizmodo Media Group|date=2014-07-24|access-date=2017-04-06}}</ref> After 2015, ''Tiger Beat'' was published by [[Los Angeles]]–based Tiger Beat Media, Inc.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tiger Beat Media, Inc.|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=314415091|publisher=Bloomberg L.P.|access-date=2017-04-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| last = Ember| first = Sydney| title = Tiger Beat Magazine Is Revived With a New Vision| work = The New York Times| access-date = 2018-11-16| date = 2017-12-21| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/business/media/tiger-beat-magazine-is-revived-with-a-new-vision.html}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
[[Jude Doyle]] founded the [[blog]] Tiger Beatdown (a punning reference to ''Tiger Beat'') in 2008. It concluded in 2013.<ref name="M-Harding 2017">{{Cite book|last1=Mukhopadhyay|first1=Samhita|title=Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America|last2=Harding|first2=Kate|year=2017|isbn=978-1250155511|author-link=Samhita Mukhopadhyay|author-link2=Kate Harding}}</ref><ref name="Tillet 2016">{{Cite news|last=Tillet|first=Salamishah|author-link=Salamishah Tillet|date=2016-09-20|title=What We Can Learn From Women Who Break the Rules (Published 2016)|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/books/review/trainwreck-sady-doyle.html|access-date=2020-11-18|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="Culp 2014">{{Cite book|last=Culp|first=Jennifer|title=I Have Been Sexually Abused. Now What?|year=2014|isbn=978-1477779767|pages=18}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Children's magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:Monthly magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:Celebrity magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:Defunct magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:Magazines established in 1965]]
[[Category:Magazines disestablished in 2019]]
[[Category:Magazines published in California]]
[[Category:Defunct teen magazines published in the United States]]