Soap Opera Digest

Soap Opera Digest is a very popular magazine, chronicling the stories airing on American soap operas and the off-screen lives of the actors appearing on them. The magazine first debuted in 1975 (the first cover story was John Aniston, who was on Love of Life at the time). Currently, the magazine boasts a subscription base of 500,000, as well as more than a million more issues purchased at newsstands and supermarkets each week.

The magazine, originally published monthly, moved to biweekly issues in 1980, and started publishing weekly in 1997. The current editor-in-chief is Lynn Leahey.