Politisk Revy, a bi-weekly magazine, was founded in 1963 by
Andreas Jorgensen, a
left-wing politician. The early the editors of the magazine included Andreas Jorgensen, Johan Fjord Jensen, Ulf Christiansen and Sven Skovmand who left the magazine after 1966. Bente Hansen is another former editor-in-chief of the magazine.{{cite web|title=Four People|work=The Danish Council of Ethics|year=1997
Politisk Revy reached its peak circulation in the 1970s with 5,000 copies. During this period the magazine was one of the
alternative media together with
Information, a newspaper, in Denmark.{{cite journal|author=Andrew Jamison|doi=10.1080/0950543042000226602|title=Learning from Lomborgor: or where do anti-environmentalists come from?|journal=Science as Culture The magazine was closed in March 1987 due to low levels of circulation and shaky finances. In 1969 the magazine also began to publish books of which number was 507 until its disestablishment. ==Political leaning, content and censorship==