US News & World Report To Become A Monthly Magazine

Just five months after saying it would drop its frequency to every other week, U.S. News & World Report has decided instead to become a monthly magazine, employees said on Tuesday.

Less than a year ago, U.S. News still published weekly, but this year it began publishing less often, and in June, it announced that, come January, it would publish every two weeks. Executives conceded then that the magazine had ceased to be a newsweekly competing directly with Time and Newsweek.

But apparently even that plan has been deemed too ambitious, and has been declared dead before it could be put into place, according to employees of the magazine, who said they were informed this week that U.S. News would go monthly. They were granted permission to speak only if they did so anonymously.

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