News magazines

A news magazine publishes weekly or monthly, and that cycle changes what it is for. By the time an issue appears its readers already know what happened, so it competes on interpretation rather than on being first, and its pages are long enough to carry an argument instead of an account. The cover is the clearest expression of this: chosen days before it reaches anyone and designed to still be right when it does, it is the only front page in this directory that is planned rather than reactive.

Read the cover as a thesis about the week rather than a report of it. Because it was locked days earlier, holding it beside the day's newspaper front pages is unusually informative: whatever the magazine bet on and the dailies have already dropped was the noise of a single news cycle, and whatever appears in both is what the week actually turned on. Opinion is meant to be visible on a magazine page, so the useful question is never whether it has a view — it is which facts it selected to support one.

Of the 11 tracked here, Crosswire places 1 on the left, 8 near the centre and 2 on the right. This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. How leanings are classified. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-17.