Newsweek launched its inaugural issue on February 17, 1933, featuring a speech by Germany’s new chancellor, Adolf Hitler, as well as the election of Franklin Roosevelt. The Washington Post’s parent company acquired the magazine in the 1960’s and Newsweek became a definitive source of news analysis and opinion. It applied a liberal bent to its coverage of politics and war. Those were the days when good content was worth waiting for. Newsweek thrived in the 1960’s, giving coverage to black America and the Civil Rights movement, the counterculture in the arts and on campus, the space program and giving bylines to individual writers and critics. Newsweek was against the war and received awards and circulation gains for that stand (Shufelt, 2007).
In 1983, Newsweek changed its editorial approach, wanting to break out of the traditional news magazine format. The parent company, Washington Post Company, had experienced some major publishing failures, losing $22 million on the Inside Sports magazine. Those responsible for Inside Sports were fired, and a new editor-in-chief, William Broyles, Jr. was hired. Newsweek proposed to be more “adventurous”, and would feature writing by individual writers instead of group journalism (Diamond, 1983).
Newsweek was known as an imitation of Time – with Time launching ten years earlier. Their circulation in 1983 was 4.3 million for Time and 3 million for Newsweek. From their inception, Time was Wall Street Republican and Newsweek supported FDR. But the New Deal pushed Newsweek to the right of Time for a short period (Diamond, 1983).
When the Internet and the flood of news and information in real time came, paid circulation fell from 3.2 million to 1.5 million. Newsweek tried to reinvent itself but the losses in circulation continued. In 2010, Washington Post Co. sold Newsweek to Sidney Harman, the 92 year old co-founder of Harman Kardon for $1 and the assumption of its debt. Newsweek merged wit the Daily Beast, an online publication led by editor-in-chief Tina Brown who assumed the position of Newsweek’s editor.
Harmon died in 2011. Harmon’s family initially promised to continue to support the publication, but abruptly cut off funding after reportedly taking a dim view of Newsweek’s sensationalism. The Tina Brown era was one of blatant provocation. Scandalous covers overshadowed the measured tone of the content within its pages. President Barack Obama was featured, adorned with a rainbow halo and declared “the first gay president.
During the 60s through Esquire magazine covers, at that period all around the world was changing. Using the covers, George Lois would display messages that made the public feel the need to speak up against issues like racism, feminism, and the Vietnam War. He created impact, drawing the attention of the readers to pick up the magazines that displayed debatable images. Lois told Insight: Essentials that “It became an important part of not reflecting the culture but of helping to lead the culture.” The magazines displayed the history of this era as the world was changing. One of the magazine covers, that sparked a wake-up call to the nation, was one of simply words of a U.S soldier: “Oh my God-we hit a little girl.” This risk made the nation open their eyes to the war’s horr...
The rise of the new Republican party can be seen through the Presidency of Richard Nixon and more specifically the events chronicled in the documentary film, “The Day the 60’s Died”. This film demonstrates the growth of the antiwar movement on United States college campuses at the height of the Vietnam War .
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World War II presented several new opportunities for African Americans to participate in the war effort and thereby begin to earn an equal place in American society and politics. From the beginning of the war, the black media urged fighting a campaign for a “Double Victory”: a global victory against fascism at the warfront and national victory over racism at the homefront. In spite of the literary and artistic achievements of the Harlem Renaissance, the economic or political gains that the black community expected did not come to light from the African American participation in the First World War. (Perry 89) Thus the black media aimed to obtain that foothold that would bring about racial equality. They emphatically declared that there would be no lessening of racial activism, in order to present a consolidated front to America’s enemies.
Words came from readers in Cleveland that “‘the impression soon prevails in your mind that Ernie Pyle… is the President of the United State’” (Tobin 29). In the midst of World War II Ernie Pyle stood out from the crowd of journalists with a style that hadn’t been seen before but spoke to American readers all over both on the home front and abroad. One writer and historian, Jordan Braverman, puts it into perspective however the lack of truth of some reporting by saying, “Soldiers were known to have huddled in foxholes under heavy aerial bombardment, while their radios were telling them that U.S. forces had complete control of the skies in their battle sector” (Braverman 84). It wasn’t just radio that did this but also print media that both wasn’t always accurate and could be seen as having alternative motives in their writing. One reader summed it up as “you read Lippman for wisdom. Pegler for controversy, Winchell for gossip, but Pyle you read for sustenance in difficult times” (Tobin 28). Echoing this feeling, one deliveryman proclaimed “‘the trouble with these column guys is they want to organize the world… except Pyle. Throw the rest away, but gimme Pyle’” (Tobin 28). Ernie Pyle began his career as a columnist before World War II had begun, and so did his development of distinct aspects of journalism that he carried through his Word War II columns and brought with them a new light to journalism. Roy Howard himself the head of the Scripps-Howard Publishing company wired Pyle a message during the war. It read, “‘ YOUR STUFF IS NOT ONLY GREATEST YOUR CAREER… BUT MOST ILLUMINATING HUMAN AND APPEALING DESCRIPTIVE MATTER PRINTED AMERICA SINCE OUTBREAK BATTLE BRITAIN…YOUR STUFF TALK OF NEW YORK’” (Tobin 57-58). Pyle gathered inform...
Bernstein, Carl and Bob Woodward. All the President’s Men. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974. Print.
When I began to read Ms. Magazine I felt this power coming out of the magazine. It was a strong voice that was able to speak and be heard, to back up their facts, and to take on whatever criticism that was to come. Ms. Magazine tackle the issue that were present in the current society. The editor responded to other groups that had written in to the magazine because of a pervious article on post abortion. Apparently Ms. Magazine received tons of letters from anti-choice groups. The editor responded turning it into a positive note saying that we need to create more space for women to feel and be heard. The letter from the editor was short, simple and sweet. Immediately Ms. Magazine embarks upon the issues of the twin towers and how feminist have reflected upon it.
...tory: Postwar United States, 1946 to 1968, Revised Edition (Volume IX). New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2010. American History Online. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 12 February 2012.
Edward R. Murrow’s profound impact on the field of journalism defines much of what the modern news media industry is today. Edward R. Murrow’s career offers aspiring journalist a detailed set of standards and moral codes in how a journalist should receive and report the news. The development of CBS is largely attributed to Murrow, and derives from his ambitious attitude in utilizing the television and radio to deliver the news. Murrow gained a stellar reputation in the minds of American’s during WWII by placing himself in the heart of the war, and delivering information through radio in his famous This is London broadcasts. His battles with Senator Joseph McCarthy are largely referred to as his most prominent achievement in which Murrow exposed the unfair practices of Senator McCarthy in his wild accusations on those in the American public of being affiliated with communism. At the RTNDA conference Murrow arguably deliver his most famous speech, which included his hopes and fears of the news media industry in years to come. Although much of today’s news media industry would be held in disdain in the mind of Murrow his practices are still referred due and held in high regard by his contemporaries and fellow aspiring journalist. Edward R. Murrow set the standard of American journalism, and had the largest individual impact on the news media industry in history.
The author provides a rough timeline of the objective norm emerging in American journalism, and explains the inner origin of these co...
The first eye-catching difference is the size of the magazines themselves. Spin takes a more conservative approach to the publication's size. It is printed in the standard eleven-by-eight inch format used by most magazines in The United States. By choosing this size, Spin gains advantages such as portability and attraction. Rolling Stone on the other hand, has taken a quite different approach. With its massive size, almost double the size of a standard magazine, Rolling Stone draws prospective buyers in their direction. It is obvious that Rolling Stone's unique choice makes them stand out in a sea of clones. Whether readers think out of the box, or conform to the norm, they will find that magazine size is essential to publication sales.
Have you ever picked up a magazine and then put it down because you didn’t think it would interest you? All magazines have intended audiences. Times magazine is specifically directed towards rich middle aged men with families (a wife and kids) and college degrees, who have an interest in the world around them and run their own businesses. The intended audience of this magazine is supported by the authors of the articles, the ads in the magazines, the subjects of the articles in the magazines, and the color schemes of the magazines along with their formats.
In the United States, there is no shortage of news sources. Be that as it may, these sources are not considered equals. Some of these sources are considered to contain quality informative content, while others are notorious for containing only “fluff.” Since the creation of Slate Magazine in 1996, their website’s reliability has been questionable to many because of their unique presentation of news stories. In other words, critics of Slate argue Slate is not a real source of news because its condensed, constant, and partial coverage. However, after conducting extensive research on Slate Magazine, I believe it is an excellent news source if used for its intended purpose of offering the public analysis and commentary on current events in a
Newswriting, as it exists today, began with the adoption of the telegraph, which roughly coincided with the start of the American Civil War. The necessity of getting at story through before the telegraph’s occasional malfunction forced a radical change in the style of writing used in reporting. Before the telegraph, much of writing news was just that: writing. News was reported much like books were written. The reporter would set the scene with a detailed account of the setting or the mood and tell the tale just like any other narrative that one might read simply for pleasure. Since the telegraph made it possible for news to be printed the day after it happened; it was immediately adopted as the preferred method of getting news to the newsroom. Occasionally, however, the telegraph line would go down. Often this happened during a transmission, and the remainder of the message could not be sent until the line was repaired. Since a detailed description of the setting and the mood are useless without the actual piece of news, the system of writing, now known as the inverted pyramid, in which the most important items are written first in a concise manner, was born. The inverted pyramid system, born of necessity, was absorbed into newswriting over the proceeding century, and exists today as the standard style for reporting news.
The average age of the women are 46 years old. The average income of the readers is approximately $66,700. The purpose of Newsweek is to publish, “… High-quality journalism to readers around the globe…” newsweek.com. Not only is it published in the United States, it is in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. And published in several different languages such as Polish and Spanish. And since Rosenberg is a freelance writer, according debrarosenberg.tumblr.com, writing for Newsweek about gender was an easy decision for her because she can write about anything she chooses to write about without being limited to a specific area of study. She can also influence a great number and a wide variety of people because of the magazine’s wide demographic. In the article “(Rethinking) Gender” Rosenberg shares stories of people who have questioned the gender they were born with, then transitioned in order to be content with themselves. She includes the stories the former NASCAR driver J.T. Hayes, who is now known as Terri O’Connell, former Olympian Renee Richards and children who have