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Biggest issue of Fortune 500 since 2005

The Fortune 500 issue released Thursday is the largest issue of the magazine since 2005.

The current issue has 392 pages, with 236 pages worth of ads. A decade ago, the issue had 410 pages.

For comparison, the 2013 issue had 356 pages and was up 36 pages in advertising from 2012.

This is the first Fortune 500 that Alan Murray, who joined the magazine less than a year ago, has edited.

Fortune publisher Eric Danetz had great success on the advertising side.  The Fortune 500 issue had 40 percent growth in the number of new advertisers in print this year and 25 percent increase in new advertisers on Fortune.com.

The June 15, 2015 issue of Fortune goes on sale on Monday.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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