High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society produces a large amount of literature for use by Jehovah`s Witnesses; their best known publications are the magazines, The Watchtower and Awake!. The Watchtower was first published by Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Bible Student movement, in 1879, followed by the inception of the Watch Tower Society in 1881. Following a dispute in the movement`s leadership, supporters of the Watch Tower Society`s president, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, adopted the name Jehovah`s witnesses in 1931. Particularly since 2001, the literature produced by the Watch Tower Society has typically stated that it is "published by Jehovah`s Witnesses".