News magazine

A news magazine is a regular (usually weekly) appearing message format that makes it accessible to a broad public current, mainly political, but also economic, cultural and other news. A distinction must print magazines (Der Spiegel, etc.), radio magazines ( eg issues of the day, heute journal ) and online magazines ( Spiegel Online, Focus Online, etc.).

Criteria for print magazines

  • Weekly publication ( to distinguish it from month leaves or quarterlies )
  • Primarily political, general and other messages ( to distinguish it from business magazines )
  • Emphasize the lyrics ( to distinguish it from current magazines )
  • The form of a journal ( to distinguish it from weeklies)
  • Public press ( to distinguish it from more specialized newsletters )

German news magazines

In Germany, Der Spiegel applies (since 1946) as a prototype of the classic news magazine. The Star (since 1948) is classified as a political Illustrated by some as a political news magazine, Focus from the Burda publishing house in Munich (since 1993) as illustrated news magazine. The mirror and the star regard each other as a major competitor.

News magazines, which have not been successful in Germany, were, among others:

  • The headlight ( in October 1950 set ).
  • Criticism (Frankfurt)
  • Information ( Wiesbaden)
  • Mix ( set in January 1955)
  • Plus ( Munich) ( November 20, 1959 to January 1960)
  • Moment (only sample number)
  • Continent (1961 )
  • Currently (1961 )
  • Newspaper (Stuttgart, 1964-1965 )
  • German Panorama (1966-1967)
  • Dialog (Bonn, 1970 to June 1973)
  • Spontaneous (1968-1984)
  • Pulse (only zero number on 1 April 1988)
  • Ergo ( project of the Bauer publishing group, was after two years of test run, which took place at the mid-1990s only with sample numbers, abandoned)

Austrian news magazines

In Austria there is a profile with news magazine has a paid circulation of over 100,000 copies. Since 1992 he released a second news magazine NEWS. 1998, the first issue of the weekly magazine format.

Swiss News Magazine

The most popular news magazines of Switzerland are:

  • In German Switzerland the world week with a circulation of 91 213 copies ( 2005)
  • In Romandie L' Hebdo with a paid circulation of 48,000 copies

The title of Facts ( 2005 edition: 73 034 copies) was discontinued for reasons of profitability in the summer of 2007.

Internationally important news magazines

France

  • L' Express
  • Le Nouvel Observateur
  • Le Point

United Kingdom

  • The Economist

Italy

  • Panorama (Journal)
  • L' Espresso
  • Epoca
  • Europeo

Spain

  • Tiempo (Journal)

Canada

  • Maclean's
  • L' Actualité (French monthly magazine )

Netherlands

USA

  • TIME
  • Newsweek
  • U. S. News & World Report

Brazil

  • Veja
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