News magazine
A news magazine or newsmagazine 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.
Broadcast news magazines
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, but their stories are presented as short television documentaries rather than written articles. These broadcasts serve as an alternative in covering certain issues more in depth than regular newscasts. The formula, first established by Panorama on the BBC in 1953, has proved successful around the world. Television news magazines provide several stories not seen on regular newscasts, including celebrity profiles, coverage of big businesses, hidden camera techniques, better international coverage, exposing and correcting injustices, in-depth coverage of a headline story, and hot-topic interviews.
In the United States, television news magazines were very popular in the 1990s, since they were a cheap and easy way to better use the investment in national television network news departments. Television news magazines once aired five nights a week on most television networks.[1] However, with the success of reality shows, news magazines have largely been supplanted. Reality shows cost slightly less to produce and attain a younger and more loyal audience than the news magazines they replaced. Thus, the audience once attracted to news magazine shows has largely drifted to cable television, where common news magazine topics such as nature, science, celebrities, and politics all have their own specialty channels.
Most commercial broadcasting television stations have local news that refers to news coverage of events in a local context which would not typically be of interest to those of other localities, or otherwise be of national or international scope.
Notable print news magazines
Newsmagazine | Country of origin |
---|---|
Klan | Albania |
Mapo | Albania |
Noticias | Argentina |
CartaCapital | |
Época | Brazil |
IstoÉ | Brazil |
Veja | Brazil |
L'actualité | Canada |
Maclean's | Canada |
Semana | |
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 |
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 |
Fokus | Sweden |
Korrespondent | Ukraine |
The Economist | United Kingdom |
New Statesman | United Kingdom |
The Spectator | United Kingdom |
The Week | United Kingdom |
The Chosun Ilbo | South Korea |
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
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
United Kingdom
United States
- 20/20
- 60 Minutes
- 60 Minutes II
- 48 Hours
- America Now[2]
- 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
- Now on PBS
- Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric
- 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[3]
- Weekend
Other countries
- Brazil
- Domingo Espetacular
- Fantástico
- Bulgaria
- Panorama
- Vsyaka nedelya
- Chile
- Hong Kong
- News Magazine (新聞透視)
- Sunday Report (星期日檔案)
- Spain
- European Journal (Belgium/Germany)
- Kastljós (Iceland)
- Mladina (Slovenia)
- Provjereno (Croatia)
- Séptimo día (Colombia)
- Tagesthemen (Germany)
Notable radio news magazines
International
Australia
Mexico
- W noticias (XEW-AM)
- El Heraldo Radio
United Kingdom
- Breakfast (BBC Radio Five Live)
- Broadcasting House
- PM
- Today
- The World at One
- The World This Weekend
- The World Tonight
- Worricker on Sunday (Five Live)
United States
See also
References
- Eclipsing the Nightly News | American Journalism Review Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. Ajr.org. Retrieved on 2011-05-28.
- Patten, Dominic (26 March 2013). "Syndicated Newsmagazine 'America Now' Renewed For Fourth Season". Deadline. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015.
- Fretts, Bruce (16 December 1994). "Lessons for boosting tv ratings". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on Apr 25, 2009.
5.Este es un ejemplo de News Magazines: https://newsmagazinesbc.com
External links
- The Guardian article on newsmagazines
- 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)