Editing Jane's Defence Weekly

{{Short description|British weekly magazine focussing on military matters}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2013}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title              = Jane's Defence Weekly <!--
| logo               = Jdw logo.png
| logo_size          = 220px
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| image_file         = Jdw cover.jpg
| image_alt          = Janes Defence Weekly Cover
| image_caption      = Cover for 20 May 2020 edition.
| editor             = Peter Felstead<ref name="team">{{cite web |url=http://www.janes.com/products/janes/defence-business/news/defence-weekly.aspx |title=''Jane's Defence Weekly'' Editorial Team |publisher=Janes.com |access-date=26 March 2013 |archive-date=9 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130609190002/http://www.janes.com/products/janes/defence-business/news/defence-weekly.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>
| editor_title       = Editor
| editor2            = Kate Tringham<ref name="team" />
| editor_title2      = Features Editor
| editor3            = Nicholas Fiorenza<ref name="team" />
| editor_title3      = Europe Editor
| editor4            = Gabriel Dominguez<ref name="team" />
| editor_title4      = Asia Pacific Editor
| editor5            = Jeremy Binnie<ref name="team" />
| editor_title5      = Middle East/Africa Editor
| editor6            = Daniel Wasserbly<ref name="team" />
| editor_title6      = Americas Editor
| previous_editor    = 
| staff_writer       = Geoff Fein<br />Marina Malenic<br />Jon Grevatt<br /><ref name="team" />
| photographer       = 
| category           = Defence
| frequency          = Weekly
| circulation        = 
| paid_circulation   = 2,717<ref name="circ">{{cite web |url=http://www.bpaww.com/Bpaww_com/HTML/business/Business%20TRAC%20June%2012.pdf | title=Business TRAC – June 2012 |publisher=[[BPA Worldwide]] |date=June 2012 |access-date=26 March 2013}}</ref>
| unpaid_circulation = 24,886<ref name="circ" />
| total_circulation  = 27,603<ref name="circ" />
| circulation_year   = June 2012
| publisher          = 
| founder            = 
| founded            = 1984<ref name="aeroflight">{{cite web |url=http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/mags/magazine-details/janes-defence-weekly-magazine.htm |title=''Jane's Defence Weekly'' information |publisher=Aeroflight |date=19 August 2012 |access-date=26 March 2013 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101229/http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/mags/magazine-details/janes-defence-weekly-magazine.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
| firstdate          = <!-- {{Start date|df=yes|year|month|day}} -->
| company            = [[Janes Information Services]]
| country            = England
| based              = [[Coulsdon]], [[Surrey]]
| language           = English
| website            = {{URL|https://www.janes.com/defence-news/}}
| issn               = 0265-3818
| oclc               = 613908494
}}
'''''Jane's Defence Weekly''''' (abbreviated as '''''JDW''''') is a weekly [[magazine]] reporting on [[military]] and [[corporation|corporate]] affairs, edited by Peter Felstead. It is one of a number of military-related publications named after [[Fred T. Jane|John F. T. Jane]], an Englishman who first published ''[[Jane's Fighting Ships|Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships]]'' in 1898. It is a unit of [[Janes Information Services]]. The magazine is frequently cited in publications worldwide.<ref>See, for example:<br>{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/world/israel-plans-quick-raids/2006/07/22/1153166620716.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 |title=Israel masses troops on border |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=22 July 2006 |access-date=26 March 2013 |archive-date=14 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114190731/http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/israel-plans-quick-raids/2006/07/22/1153166620716.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 |url-status=live }}<br>{{cite web |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6242-north-korean-hybrid-missiles-could-threaten-us.html |title=North Korean hybrid missiles 'could threaten US' |work=[[New Scientist]] |date=4 August 2004 |access-date=26 March 2013 |first=Will |last=Knight |archive-date=5 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005020128/http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6242-north-korean-hybrid-missiles-could-threaten-us.html |url-status=live }}<br>{{cite web |url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2004/08/04/2004080461008.html |title=British Publication Warns of North Korean Missiles |work=[[The Chosun Ilbo]] |date=8 April 2004 |access-date=26 March 2013 |archive-date=4 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004223708/http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2004/08/04/2004080461008.html |url-status=dead }}<br>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3531956.stm |title=N Korea missiles 'could reach US' |publisher=BBC News |date=3 August 2004 |access-date=26 March 2013 |archive-date=2 December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061202223707/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3531956.stm |url-status=live }}<br>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=S68yAAAAIBAJ&pg=4631,44032 |work=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |date=21 January 1986 |access-date=26 March 2013 |title=Soviet Agents Joined UK Missile-base Protest |archive-date=1 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201153733/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=S68yAAAAIBAJ&pg=4631,44032 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==History==
''Jane's Defence Weekly'' was established in 1984 replacing the now-defunct ''[[Jane's Defence Review]]''.<ref name="aeroflight" /> The latter was started in 1978 and was published on a monthly basis.<ref>{{cite web |title=Aviation Magazines |url=http://www.aircraftinformation.info/magazines_uk_2.htm |work=Aircraft International |access-date=31 January 2016 |archive-date=28 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070528035151/http://www.aircraftinformation.info/magazines_uk_2.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Award winning international journalist [[Clifford Beal]] is a former editor of the magazine.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Clifford Beal |url=https://www.sheilland.com/clifford-beal |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329002132/https://www.sheilland.com/clifford-beal |archive-date=2023-03-29 |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=sheil-land |language=en}}</ref>

===Samuel Loring Morison===
In 1984, only months after the magazine was established, ''Jane's Defence Weekly'' gained worldwide attention after printing several images from an American [[reconnaissance satellite|spy satellite]] of the [[Black Sea Shipyard|Nikolaiev 444 shipyard]] in the [[Black Sea]], showing a [[Kiev-class aircraft carrier]] under construction.<ref name="pbp">https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XyMjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c84FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4321,5157743 {{dead link|date=May 2019}}</ref> The images were leaked by [[Samuel Loring Morison]], an American intelligence professional, leading to the only conviction ever passed against a US government official for giving classified information to the press.<ref name="pbp" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/03/opinion/abroad-at-home-the-pardons-in-perspective.html |work=The New York Times |first=Anthony |last=Lewis |title=Abroad at Home; The Pardons in Perspective |date=3 March 2001 |access-date=19 February 2017 |archive-date=5 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205104820/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/03/opinion/abroad-at-home-the-pardons-in-perspective.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

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