WashingtonPost.com: ‘The survival strategy’ of newsmags
January 20th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Magazines
Howard Kurtz takes a look at magazines Time and Newsweek, and asks ‘do newsmags still matter?’
“The rival editors are turning out weeklies that are smaller, more serious, more opinionated and, though they are loath to admit it, more liberal,” writes Kurtz.
“It is nothing less than a survival strategy,” he says.
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