News magazine

Short description: Magazine about current events

"Newsweekly" redirects here. For the Australian magazine, see News Weekly.

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A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published magazine, radio, or television program, usually published weekly, consisting of articles about current events. News magazines generally discuss stories in greater depth than newspapers or newscasts do, and aim to give the consumer an understanding of the important events beyond the basic facts.

## Contents

* 1 Broadcast news magazines
* 2 Notable print news magazines
* 3 Notable TV news magazines
* 3.1 Australia
* 3.2 Canada
* 3.3 Italy
* 3.4 Mexico
* 3.5 Philippines
* 3.6 United Kingdom
* 3.7 United States
* 3.8 Other countries
* 4 Notable radio news magazines
* 4.1 International
* 4.2 Australia
* 4.3 Canada
* 4.4 Mexico
* 4.5 United Kingdom
* 4.6 United States
* 5 See also
* 6 References
* 7 External links

## Broadcast news magazines

Template:Split-section Radio news magazines are similar to television news magazines. Unlike radio newscasts, which are typically about five minutes in length, radio news magazines can run from 30 minutes to three hours or more.

Television news magazines provide a similar service to print news magazines; unlike a conventional newscast, these programs feature long-form segments that allow more in-depth coverage of specific topics, including current affairs, investigations, major interviews, and human-interest stories. The BBC's Panorama was one of the earliest examples, premiering in 1953.[1] In Canada, CTV premiered W5 in 1966, running for 58 seasons before being cancelled as a regular series in 2024 due to budget cuts by its parent company (with the brand repurposed for long-form stories on CTV News programming and platforms). It was the longest-running program of its kind in North America.[2][3][4]

In the United States, the Big Three networks all currently produce at least one weekly news magazine, including ABC's 20/20, CBS's 60 Minutes and Sunday Morning, and NBC's Dateline NBC; of these programs, 60 Minutes typically focuses on investigative journalism, 20/20 and Dateline focus predominantly on true crime documentaries,[5][6][7] while Sunday Morning typically focuses on human-interest stories (up to and including stories on the arts) and has a more relaxed tone.[8][9]

News magazines proliferated on network schedules in the early 1990s, as they had lower production costs in comparison to scripted programs, and could attract equivalent if not larger audiences. At the same time, newer newsmagazines—including syndicated offerings such as A Current Affair, Hard Copy and Inside Edition—often had an infotainment skew with a larger focus on tabloid stories (including coverage of celebrities such as Michael Jackson, and the O.J. Simpson and Menendez brothers' murder trials), rather than the harder journalism associated with 60 Minutes and 20/20 at the time. CNN president Ed Turner argued that these shows had eclipsed the networks' evening newscasts as their flagship programs, at the expense of their news divisions' traditions of hard journalism.[6] [10]

By the late-1990s, Dateline would establish a niche in true crime to set it apart from its competitors—a format that would bolster its popularity, and lead the show to being on as many as five times per-week at its peak.[6] To compete with 20/20 and Dateline, CBS premiered a Wednesday-night edition of 60 Minutes known as 60 Minutes II in 1999; the program was positioned as having a similar format to its Sunday counterpart (rather than having a tabloid-centric format), differentiated primarily by having a separate production team.[11][12] NBC experimented with other news magazines in the 2010s, including Rock Center with Brian Williams—a more hard news-oriented program that aired for two seasons,[13][14] and Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly—a short-lived primetime vehicle for the former Fox News correspondent.[15] In 2025, CBS relaunched its weekday CBS Evening News with a more news magazine-like format, focusing on in-depth stories rather than summarizing top stories like its competitors.[16][17]

Some local television stations in the U.S. have produced news magazines. Westinghouse Broadcasting created the Evening Magazine format for its stations, and syndicated it to other markets as PM Magazine; the program used a hybrid format mixing locally-produced segments with national content.[18] These programs largely been displaced by cheaper programming acquired from the syndication market, but there have been exceptions such as WCVB-TV in Boston—which has continued to produce the nightly news magazine Chronicle since 1982,[19] and Evening on KING-TV in Seattle—which originally premiered in 1986 as the local franchise of Evening Magazine.[18][20]

In Brazil, TV Globo's Sunday-night news magazine Fantástico has historically been one of the top programs on Brazilian television, although its dominance is no longer as absolute as it was in the past due to competition from variety shows such as SBT's Programa Silvio Santos, and from Record's competing news magazine Domingo Espetacular.[21]

## Notable print news magazines

Major news magazines  News magazine | Country of origin

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Klan | Albania
Mapo | Albania
Noticias | Argentina
CartaCapital | Brazil
Época | Brazil
IstoÉ | Brazil
Veja | Brazil
L'actualité | Canada
Maclean's | Canada
Semana | Colombia
Visión | Colombia
Týden | Czech Republic
Respekt | Czech Republic
Suomen Kuvalehti | Finland
L'Express | France
Marianne | France
L'Obs | France
Le Point | France
Der Spiegel | Germany
Stern | Germany
Focus | Germany
Yazhou Zhoukan | Hong Kong
Frontline | India
India Today | India
The Week | India
Outlook | India
Tehelka | India
HardNews | India
The Northeast Today | India
Shraman Bharti | India
Gatra | Indonesia
Tempo | Indonesia
L'Espresso | Italy
Famiglia Cristiana | Italy
Panorama | Italy
Proceso | Mexico
Zeta | Mexico
HP/De Tijd | Netherlands
Elsevier Weekblad | Netherlands
De Groene Amsterdammer | Netherlands
Nieuwe Revu | Netherlands
Vrij Nederland | Netherlands
Newswatch | Nigeria
Morgenbladet | Norway
Caretas | Peru
Polityka | Poland
Visão | Portugal
Ogoniok | Russia
The New Times | Russia
NIN | Serbia
Nedeljnik | Serbia
Novi magazin | Serbia
Mladina | Slovenia
Finweek | South Africa
Noseweek | South Africa
The Chosun Ilbo | South Korea
Fokus | Sweden
Korrespondent | Ukraine
The Economist | United Kingdom
New Statesman | United Kingdom
The Spectator | United Kingdom
The Week | United Kingdom
Bloomberg Businessweek | United States
The Atlantic | United States
The New Yorker | United States
The Nation | United States
Mother Jones | United States
National Review | United States
The New Republic | United States
Newsweek | United States
Time | United States
U.S. News & World Report | United States
World | United States
Zeta | Venezuela

## Notable TV news magazines

### Australia

* Four Corners
* Dateline
* 60 Minutes
* Revealed
* Sunday Night

### Canada

* 16×9
* The Fifth Estate
* Global Sunday
* This Hour Has Seven Days
* W5

### Italy

* AnnoZero
* Ballarò
* In ½ h
* L'Infedele
* Porta a Porta

### Mexico

* Noticieros Televisa
* On Air. with Paola Rojas
* The News with Karla Iberia Sánchez
* On Point. with Denise Maerker

### Philippines

* Magandang Gabi... Bayan
* Pareng Partners
* Probe
* Reporter's Notebook
* Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho
* KBYN: Kaagapay ng Bayan
* Kuha Mo!
* Rated Korina
* Tao Po!

### United Kingdom

A man reading The Illustrated London News, 1944

* Dispatches
* Exposure
* The Illustrated London News
* Newsnight
* On Assignment
* Panorama
* Tonight
* Unreported World

### United States

* 20/20
* 60 Minutes
* 60 Minutes II
* 48 Hours
* Al Rojo Vivo (2002 TV program)
* America Now[22]
* America's Heartland
* Aquí y Ahora
* Bill Moyers Journal
* Business Nation
* CBS News Sunday Morning
* Connie Chung Tonight
* Dateline NBC
* Day One
* E:60
* Expose
* Eye to Eye with Connie Chung
* Frontline
* Inside Edition
* InvestigateTV
* Now on PBS
* Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric
* Primer Impacto
* Primetime
* Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel
* Real Life with Jane Pauley
* Rock Center with Brian Williams
* Saturday Night with Connie Chung
* Small Town Big Deal
* Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly
* Turning Point[23]
* Weekend

### Other countries

* Brazil
* Domingo Espetacular
* Fantástico
* Bulgaria
* Panorama
* Vsyaka nedelya
* Chile
* Contacto
* Informe especial
* Hong Kong
* News Magazine (新聞透視)
* Sunday Report (星期日檔案)
* Spain
* BCN Week
* Informe Semanal
* European Journal (Belgium/Germany)
* Kastljós (Iceland)
* Mladina (Slovenia)
* Provjereno (Croatia)
* Séptimo día (Colombia)
* Tagesthemen (Germany)
* On the Spot (Indonesia)
* Jor Morning News (จ้อข่าวเช้า) (Thailand)

## Notable radio news magazines

### International

* Newshour

### Australia

* AM
* RN Breakfast
* PM
* The World Today

### Canada

* Canada Live
* The Current
* The World at Six

### Mexico

* W noticias (XEW-AM)
* El Heraldo Radio

### United Kingdom

* Breakfast (BBC Radio 5 Live)
* Broadcasting House
* PM
* Today
* The World at One
* The World This Weekend
* The World Tonight
* Worricker on Sunday (Five Live)

### United States

* All Things Considered
* America in The Morning
* Eye on the World
* Morning Edition (weekend version branded as Weekend Edition)
* This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal
* Weekend America
* The World

## See also

* News program
* News media

## References

1. ↑ McQueen, David (4 January 2011). A Very Conscientious Brand: A Case Study of the BBC's Current Affairs Series Panorama. Journal of Brand Management. 18. Bournemouth University Research Online: Macmillan Publishers. pp. 4–5. doi:10.1057/bm.2011.5. https://core.ac.uk/reader/4898275. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
2. ↑ Thiessen, Connie (8 February 2024). "Bell to reduce workforce by 4,800, divest 45 radio stations" (in en-US). https://broadcastdialogue.com/bell-to-reduce-workforce-by-4800-divest-45-radio-stations/.
3. ↑ Thiessen, Connie (8 February 2024). "Most noon, weekend CTV newscasts cancelled as part of cuts at Bell Media" (in en-US). https://broadcastdialogue.com/most-noon-local-ctv-newscasts-cancelled-as-part-of-cuts-at-bell-media/.
4. ↑ "CTV slashes staff, episodes from W5 newsmagazine show" (in en-CA). The Globe and Mail. 15 August 2014. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/ctv-slashes-staff-episodes-from-w5-newsmagazine-show/article20075243/.
5. ↑ Bill Carter (19 August 2011). "True Crime TV on Shows Like 'Dateline'". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/arts/television/true-crime-tv-on-shows-like-dateline.html.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eclipsing the Nightly News | American Journalism Review . Ajr.org. Retrieved on 28 May 2011.
7. ↑ "How NBC's 'Dateline' took back its true-crime throne". Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/01/28/dateline-nbc-podcast-true-crime/.
8. ↑ Taubman, Philip (21 April 1986). "for Horowitz in Moscow, Bravos and Tears". https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/21/arts/for-horowitz-in-moscow-bravos-and-tears.html.
9. ↑ Jon Friedman (7 April 2006). "CBS' 'Sunday Morning' stands apart". MarketWatch. http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=93d1028f-3e82-4a4d-8ea5-20228f5bc1e9&siteid=mktw&dist=morenews.
10. ↑ "60 Minutes II | Dan Rather". The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin. https://danratherjournalist.org/investigative-journalist/60-minutes-ii.
11. ↑ Adalian, Josef (1998-07-15). "’60 Minutes II’ to blast off in ’99" (in en-US). https://variety.com/1998/tv/news/60-minutes-ii-to-blast-off-in-99-1117478460/.
12. ↑ "60 Minutes II | Dan Rather". The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin. https://danratherjournalist.org/investigative-journalist/60-minutes-ii.
13. ↑ Guthrie, Marisa (24 October 2011). "'Rock Center' Looks to Bring More Hard News to Primetime" (in en-US). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/rock-center-brian-williams-nbc-252539/.
14. ↑ Kondolojy, Amanda (10 May 2013). "'Rock Center with Brian Williams' Canceled by NBC After Two Seasons". TV by the Numbers. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/05/10/rock-center-with-brian-williams-canceled-by-nbc/182039. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
15. ↑ Littleton, Cynthia (6 March 2018). "NBC News' 'Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly' Returns for Spring and Summer Run". Variety. https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/megyn-kelly-vladimir-putin-sunday-night-newsmagazine-1202719154/.
16. ↑ "Here's What the New CBS Evening News Will Look Like". Adweek. 26 January 2025. https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/cbs-evening-news-reimagined-ratings/.
17. ↑ P. Hill, Michael (29 January 2025). "CBS debuts reimagined 'Evening News' with clean graphics, LED volume set". Newscast Studio. https://www.newscaststudio.com/2025/01/29/cbs-evening-news-127-debut/.
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 LEVESQUE, JOHN (2009-05-29). "Long-running 'Evening Magazine' searches for new host" (in en-US). seattlepi.com. https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/tv/article/Long-running-Evening-Magazine-searches-for-new-1304204.php.
19. ↑ ""Chronicle" marks 30 years on the air" (in en-US). 31 January 2012. https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2012/01/30/chronicle-marks-30-years-on-the-air/.
20. ↑ "Evening Magazine celebrates 28th anniversary" (in en-US). 2014-08-26. https://www.king5.com/article/news/evening-magazine-celebrates-28th-anniversary/281-287778461.
21. ↑ ""Fantástico" perde 17 pontos de audiência em 10 anos" (in pt-br). https://natelinha.uol.com.br/noticias/2014/01/25/fantastico-perde-17-pontos-de-audiencia-em-10-anos-70530.php.
22. ↑ Patten, Dominic (26 March 2013). "Syndicated Newsmagazine 'America Now' Renewed For Fourth Season". https://www.deadline.com/2013/03/syndicated-newsmagazine-america-now-renewed-for-fourth-season/.
23. ↑ Fretts, Bruce (16 December 1994). "Lessons for boosting tv ratings". Entertainment Weekly. https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,304937,00.html.

## External links

* The Guardian article on news magazines
* WORLD podcast of a radio news magazine (archived 5 March 2016)
* Merrian-Webster definition of news magazine
* A brief history of the TV news magazine TVNewser (archived 13 July 2014)
* TV critic from The Buffalo News on TV newsmagazines (archived 5 March 2016)

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