Editor Jon Meacham explains the new formula of NEWSWEEK by saying:
“The weekly cycle is a promising one in a world running at a digital pace.
The Internet does a good job of playing the role long filled by newspapers, delivering headlines, opinions and instant analysis.
Many newspapers have long been forced into a traditional newsmagazine model, with longer-form reporting and more big-picture thinking, but they still have to do it every day, and there is only so much wisdom one can summon in a few hours.
As we see it, NEWSWEEK’s role is to bring you as intellectually satisfying and as visually rich an experience as the great monthlies of old did, whether it was Harold Hayes’s Esquire or Willie Morris’s Harper’s, but on a weekly basis.”
How?
“With two kinds of stories in the new NEWSWEEK.
The first is the reported narrative—a piece, grounded in original observation and freshly discovered fact, that illuminates the important and the interesting.
The second is the argued essay—a piece, grounded in reason and supported by evidence, that makes the case for something.”
No more news digest, but analysis and arguments instead.
On better paper.
Easier to read.
A “bookzine” that doesn’t want to be the first word, but the last word.
I like the new concept.
Not Roger Black, though, the former Art Director, who says on Facebook:
“Just saw Newsweek. Well . . . at least now they can change the name. It’s not a weekly. And there’s no news in it.”
Well Roger, it’s time to invest in new products and ideas.
Let’s give them a chance.
Perhaps the old Newsweek was a weekly and had news, but it was dying.