Site:
Newsweek
URL:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032542/site/newsweek/
Description: History: Founded by Thomas J.C. Martyn, a former foreign editor at Time magazine, Newsweek was first published on Feb. 17, 1933. That issue, called “News-Week,” featured seven photographs from the week’s news on the cover. It cost 10 cents a copy, $4 for a year, and had a circulation of 50,000. Newsweek was bought by The Washington Post Company in 1961. Today, Newsweek has a worldwide circulation of more than 4 million and a total readership of more than 21 million. The advertising rate base for the United States is 3.1 million.
Newsweek holds more prestigious National Magazine Awards, given by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), than any other newsweekly.
Content: Newsweek offers comprehensive coverage of world events with a global network of correspondents, reporters and editors covering national and international affairs, business, science and technology, society and arts and entertainment. Newsweek also features respected commentators such as Jonathan Alter, Ellis Cose, Jane Bryant Quinn, Robert J. Samuelson, Allan Sloan, Anna Quindlen, Stuart Taylor Jr. and George Will. Award-winning critics David Ansen and Peter Plagens review films and art. Newsweek.com on MSNBC offers the weekly magazine online, daily news updates, Web-only columns from Newsweek’s top writers, photo galleries and archives.
The official site for Newsweek is run through MSNBC.
