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A news magazine 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; in contrast to a daily newscast, news magazines allow more in-depth coverage of specific topics, including current affairs, investigative journalism (including hidden camera investigations), major interviews, and human-interest stories. The BBC's Panorama was one of the earliest examples, premiering in 1953.
In the United States, the Big Three networks all currently produce at least one weekly news magazine, including ABC's 20/20, CBS's 60 Minutes, and NBC's Dateline; the current formats of 20/20 and Dateline focus predominantly on true crime stories. News magazines proliferated on network schedules in the early 1990s, as they had lower production costs in comparison to scripted programs, and could attract equivalent if not larger audiences. At the same time, newer newsmagazines—as well as syndicated offerings such as A Current Affair, Hard Copy and Inside Edition—often had a larger focus on tabloid stories (including celebrities such as Michael Jackson, and the O.J. Simpson and Menendez brothers murder cases) rather than the harder journalism associated with 60 Minutes and 20/20 at the time. CNN president Ed Turner argued that these shows had eclipsed the networks' evening newscasts as their flagship programs at the expense of their news divisions' traditions of hard news.
By the late-1990s, Dateline would establish a niche in true crime to set it apart from its competitors—a format that would bolster its popularity, and lead the show to being on as many as five times per-week at its peak. Most of these magazines and their frequent airings would fall out of favor by the 2000s, being largely displaced by the emerging genre of reality television. NBC experimented with other news magazines in the 2010s, including Rock Center with Brian Williams—a more hard news-oriented program that aired for two seasons, and Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly—a short-lived primetime vehicle for the former Fox News correspondent.
Some local television stations in the U.S. have produced news magazines, although they have largely been displaced by cheaper programming acquired from the syndication market. An exception is WCVB-TV in Boston, which has continued to produce the nightly news magazine Chronicle since 1982.
In Brazil, TV Globo's news magazine Fantástico has aired on Sunday nights. Historically, it has been one of the top programs on Brazilian television, although its dominance is no longer as absolute as it was in the past due to competition from variety shows such as SBT's Programa Silvio Santos, and from Record's competing news magazine Domingo Espetacular.
Notable print news magazines
Notable TV news magazines
Australia
Canada
Italy
Mexico
- Noticieros Televisa
- On Air. with Paola Rojas
- The News with Karla Iberia Sánchez
- On Point. with Denise Maerker
Philippines
- Magandang Gabi... Bayan
- Pareng Partners
- Probe
- Reporter's Notebook
- Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho
- KBYN: Kaagapay ng Bayan
- Kuha Mo!
- Rated Korina
United Kingdom
United States
- 20/20
- 60 Minutes
- 60 Minutes II
- 48 Hours
- America Now
- 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
- Weekend
Other countries
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- 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)
- On the Spot (Indonesia)
Notable radio news magazines
International
Australia
Canada
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
- All Things Considered
- America in The Morning
- Eye on the World
- Morning Edition (weekend version branded as Weekend Edition)
- This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal
- Weekend America
- The World
See also
References
- McQueen, David (4 January 2011). "A Very Conscientious Brand: A Case Study of the BBC's Current Affairs Series Panorama". Core. Journal of Brand Management. 18 (9). Bournemouth University Research Online: Macmillan Publishers: 4–5. doi:10.1057/bm.2011.5. S2CID 167900487. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
- Bill Carter (August 19, 2011). "True Crime TV on Shows Like 'Dateline'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 11, 2017. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
- ^ Eclipsing the Nightly News | American Journalism Review Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. Ajr.org. Retrieved on 2011-05-28.
- "How NBC's 'Dateline' took back its true-crime throne". Washington Post. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
- Guthrie, Marisa (2011-10-24). "'Rock Center' Looks to Bring More Hard News to Primetime". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- Kondolojy, Amanda (May 10, 2013). "'Rock Center with Brian Williams' Canceled by NBC After Two Seasons". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on June 7, 2013. Retrieved May 10, 2013.
- Littleton, Cynthia (March 6, 2018). "NBC News' 'Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly' Returns for Spring and Summer Run". Variety. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
- ""Chronicle" marks 30 years on the air". Boston.com. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
- ""Fantástico" perde 17 pontos de audiência em 10 anos". NaTelinha (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-07-08.
- 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 April 25, 2009.
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External links
- The Guardian article on news magazines
- 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)