News and current affairs magazines

Among consumer magazines there are weeklies that cover articles on current events and have more intellectual content. These include news and current affairs magazines. News magazines generally go a little more in-depth into stories than newspapers, to give the readers an understanding of the contextsurrounding important events, rather than just the facts. Major news magazines are The Economist, The Week (the UK), and American Newsweek, The Nation, Time, U.S. News & World Report.

The Economist, which features news and international affairs publication, has been edited in London since 1843. Subjects covered include international news, economics, politics, business, finance, science, technology and the arts. The publication targets an educated readership, and among its audience there are influential business and government decision-makers.

Newsweek is published in New York City and distributed throughout the US and internationally. It is the second largest news weekly magazine in the US, having trailed Time in circulation and advertising income for most of its existence, although both are much larger than the third of America’s prominent weeklies, U.S. News & World Report. Newsweek is published in four English language editions and twelve global editions written in the language of the circulation region. As of 2003, its worldwide circulation is more than 4 million, including 3.1 million in the US.

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