Newsweek’s Overhaul

“We will be engaging, in depth, and tethered to the news but not trapped by it. Our goal was not to scramble around getting little mentions of things that were in the news. A key part of this process is putting out the magazine that only we would want to read and not pretending that the generic reader out there needs a remedial course in current events.”

—Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek, commenting on the outlet’s recent overhaul.

I [heart] Jon Meacham.

He’s single-handedly reforming journalism’s newsweekly subculture by moving away from the ‘news and analysis’ reporting model. He alone seems to realize that no one wants to read yesterday’s news, today. He understands that in the age of Twitter, Facebook, the internet, and other New Media, the value of a week-in-review like recap has greatly dimished.

Hopefully other weeklies and monthlies will follow his example. Or rather, hopefully other news outlets will model themselves after the Economist, too.