New Newsweek

Another new redesign-Newsweek now has a female editor and the March 14th issue is focused on women.  From Hillary Clinton on the front cover to the feature on the 150 Women who shake the world, it celebrates International Women's Day, which is today, March 8th.  In the editor's introduction to the new format, Tina Brown offers this insight on weekly news magazines, which I found to ring very true.  In response to the thinking that weekly news magazines are outdated in today's deluge of daily news, she says weeklies are "filling the gaps" and help readers comprehend details other news sources may have glossed over.  An article can offer background that a 30 second newsclip can not.  As with other forms of digital information, news coverage also needs the backing of journalistic pieces such as those found in Newsweek and the previously mentioned The Week. 
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