Newsweek is an American weekly magazine of news and commentary, published in New York City. In 2005, the magazine reported a national audience of more than 20 million; worldwide, its audience numbered almost 26 million in more than 190 countries. The magazine was founded in 1933. In 1937, Malcolm Muir took over as president and editor-in-chief. News-Week became Newsweek, and Muir emphasized more interpretative stories, introduced signed columns and international editions. The magazine was bought by the Washington Post Company in 1961, which continued to distinguish Newsweek from its rivals (Time and U.S. News & World Report), turning it more and more liberal. Until today, Newsweek is generally considered the most liberal of the three major newsweeklies of the U.S.
[...] Newsweek's readership level has been the most stable of the three major newsweeklies, experiencing only a drop of in circulation since 1988. As a result of such stability, the gap in readership between Newsweek, the historic No and Time, the long-time leader, has narrowed. Interestingly enough, Newsweek has won the publishing industry's most prestigious awards, including more National Magazine Awards (publishing's highest honor), more Overseas Press Club Ed Cunningham Awards (for best reporting), and more Gerald Loeb Awards (business journalism's highest honor) than any other newsweekly. [...]
[...] This quick panorama of the coverage of African news by Newsweek highlights quite clearly what images the readers get of Africa. Very little information is given of what is going on in Africa. It is supposed to be objective and I think it really tries to be. However, through the editing choices (news and topics that are treated or not), we understand what the magazine and its readers are interested in, or not. When we know the readership statistics, we understand even better. [...]
[...] Most of the news about Africa that we get, especially in Newsweek, has necessarily something to do with the Western world. In the first article about Somalia in the paper edition that went out on January 15th Newsweek tries to find out how deeply the U.S. is involved in Somalia. It goes back to the last American intervention in Somalia and it gives us the last known facts, explaining that the Pentagon has confirmed that it launched a single air strike against Al Qaeda targets in the far south of the country. [...]
[...] There, we can find varied pieces of news, for example articles about the recent events in Somalia. These articles show a clear concern about democratic expression, insisting for instance on the imposition of martial law and on the closure of the Somali medias. One article refers to the U.S. experience in Somalia in the past, but it doesn't tell much about it. A recent article is optimistic about the surge of media in Sub-Saharian Africa (explaining that radio is the dominant media, but that newspapers are developing, and that the area of greater growth are the mobile telephones). [...]
[...] In the first November editions, Newsweek made references to the coverage of the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in articles available on the internet. Newsweek then published an article, entitled Diamond in the rough about the elections in the DRC. The article explains that the poverty in which most of the people live in DRC, in spite of the mineral riches of the country, has encouraged them to place all their hope in the first free elections in 40 years. [...]
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