The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. Although The Economist calls itself a newspaper and refers to its staff as correspondents, it is printed in magazine form on glossy paper, like a newsmagazine. As of summer 2007, its average circulation tops 1.2 million copies a week, about half of which are sold in North America