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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Comments

[NWBrunette]

Another right-wing rag close to biting the dust. Wonderful news.

[Inthematrix]

The more and more people getting their news from the internet, in a few years the print editions of Time, Newsweek, USNWP, and others will basically be obsolete and limited to commemorative issues.

http://inthematrix.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/president-barack-obama/

[patmoore]

I gave up on US News and World Report because all their opinion columnists were right-wingers.

I decided that it was not worth reading the articles (most of which were somewhat decent) if it meant supporting another Republican mouthpiece.

So long USN & WR --- don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[larry278]

TIME & NEWSWEEK should do the US NEWS once a month publication pattern. No, once every 3 months is better, yet. Time-Warner should simply cease publication of TIME by July, 2009. That could encourage the other 2 to follow & cease publication by 12/31/09.
Time Warner should cease operating Warner cable & AOL by 1/31/10. The melt-down induced depression will kill a lot of weak media operations. While unemployed people have a lot of time to surf the web, watch TV & read-unemployed people don't have the money to buy things which are advertised on AOL, TV & in TIME. It's time for much of traditional MSM to die. Their audience is gone, never to return.

[Big0725]

Face it folks, print media is dead.

Hell, if it weren't for my addiction to crossword puzzles, I wouldn't touch a news paper.