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A Brit and a woman created and nurtured Newsweek. Now a British-born woman is moving it forward, pinning its hopes on a high-profile, print-digital merger. Can it survive – and is it any good?
I’m dividing this into two pieces, because I think that, in order to better judge and understand the magazine, it would be helpful first to understand something of the history and nature of American news weeklies, and their previous digital forays.
Since Robert Newman brought them to everyone’s attention, these National Lampoon covers have been doing the rounds. On the whole, they’re really not very funny (what happened in the 80s?), but just occasionally they hit the bullseye so perfectly with a photo-based cover that you find it hard to believe it was a fluke. (I’ll spare you the same-old “Buy this or the dog gets it” cover, but you know I’m including that one in this.)
This one in particular resonated with me. I have a collection of anniversary editions from magazines (rather than the typical first editions), and the cover lines of most of them may as well be the same.
