<p>I too dislike the new Newsweek, there just isn’t much of anything there. I am thinking of letting it go. We also get the Economist weekly, so there is plenty of news to read there.</p>
<p>Not a subscriber and wasn’t aware things had changed until they published that cover of Sara Palin out of context. I thought that was very questionable journalism.</p>
<p>I’m second on the routing list for the Economist at work; sometimes I get it in a week but sometimes the guy ahead of me keeps it for months. (Too cheap to pay for my own subscription.)</p>
<p>May I confess what magazine I really enjoy? The one that comes with my AARP subscription. Not for news, but for articles about people my age.</p>
<p>Waste of money and time.</p>
<p>I too have been a subscriber to Newsweek since the 70’s and can’t stand the new format. I think it took a turn for the worse when they hired Jon Meacham as editor. He annoys me. He comes off as very preachy. Anyway, I’m stuck with it until my subscription runs out next year. Most weeks I barely look at it which is sad because I used to read it cover to cover. We started getting The Week about two years ago and really enjoy that. I also agree that Time is much better these days. Actually, I started subscribing to the NY Times on the weekend and love it.</p>
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<p>Okay then…guess I’m not smart or educated, much less “elite.”</p>
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<p>LOL, how would you like to be the one saying THAT out loud at the big meeting: “My strategy is reduce circulation by a whole lot.”</p>
<p>Well, I think it’s working!</p>
<p>Actually, we got our magazines free for miles. Opted not to extend them with more miles because none of us like them much or find much substance in them. 
All of the magazines seem to mostly have “sound bites” instead of any depth. Our local newspapers are much the same & even have the same articles vertabim in both papers!</p>
<p>I guess we will become increasingly reliant on public radio for any depth, tho they only cover some stories as well. <sigh></sigh></p>
<p>We get Time and The Christian Science Monitor. The latter is an excellent magazine with more of a world focus. Time is good for a quick read, but the Monitor articles just seem better researched and balanced. The pictures in Time are often better.</p>
<p>WOW. I just got home from work and this week’s Newsweek was waiting for me. That IS small.</p>
<p>And missiepie, I guess I am not smart, educated, or elite either. Yuck.</p>
<p>Another 25+ year Newsweek subscriber who will let the subscription expire in May. Hate the new format–and every issue is thinner than the previous one. One page soundbites/opinions are extremely annoying! No more in-depth articles except one…which are also often not very interesting…
Don’t get me started on my disappointments in Newsweek --I could go on and on and on.</p>
<p>I was going to switch to “Time” but most of you are saying this isn’t much better.</p>
<p>I do like Time much better. I got a great deal on the subscription price too, something like two years for $25. We don’t have good coverage of national and international news in our local paper, so I still want some sort of weekly review.</p>
<p>I subscribed to Time for about 20 years (college to age 40), and I also grew up reading it from junior high on. Then about 15 years ago, I thought Time was just getting very trendy and cutesy in their language and choice of stories. I thought Newsweek seemed a little more serious and less trendy, so I switched. Now I’m switching back. This seems to be another “what goes around, comes around” story. </p>
<p>I hope Time’s editors and publisher pay attention to this and learn from Newsweek’s failure.</p>
<p>Another mag rag sorry to see diminished:US World News Report
When USWNR comes out periodically (pun intended) at least it is still readable</p>
<p>I’ve been a Newsweek reader/subscriber for 40 years. I always loved their in depth coverage of big news stories. I’ll never forget the one about Jonestown. How long ago was that? Now ever since the change, I barely look at it. Don’t know if I’ll cancel but I certainly won’t renew. </p>
<p>Oh and btw did they really need to put the underwear bomber on the cover? Why not a picture of the hero that stopped him?</p>
<p>I happen to have a very close family member who writes for Time. There was a time when magazines didn’t have to change because there was no competition - no other media sources really - they kept with a format and there was not a lot of reason to make changes. </p>
<p>Now, with online resources from newspapers to even each magazine has its own online addition with blogs, special columns etc. it’s a real dilemma to keep the hard copy magazine going and getting people to BUY it - magazine subscriptions are sorely down. He talks about them constantly trying to make plans to keep the magazine interesting enough. Unfortunately today, many people won’t/don’t take the time to sit down with a magazine for an hour or two reading from cover to cover. People want their news fast, quick, brief. </p>
<p>And sadly, many people are more interested in entertainment news than world/national news and think-deeply articles.</p>
<p>Every kind of magazine is struggling. Conde Nast recently ceased publishing Gourmet, after decades of its being successful, and many other magazines have downsized. But no one has yet figured out how to make money by publishing on the internet.</p>
<p>Another longtime subscriber that will let it lapse. Hate the layout. Really, just everything about it.</p>
<p>We’re enjoying The Week, which someone gave us as a present. 17yo likes the way there’s such a variety of sources.</p>
<p>I used to prefer Newsweek to Time but now I much prefer Time to Newsweek. Have been a Newsweek subscriber since the 70’s; had it delivered to my dorm room. I read that part of their thinking was that people didn’t want “news” from Newsweek; that they read news on line and wanted something else from Newsweek. Augh!</p>
<p>Yet another Newsweek subscriber … been subscribing since I was in college in the '70s and will also let my subscription lapse. I recently picked up a subscription to Time because it came to our business really inexpensively, and I find that I am reading that and no longer reading the Newsweek at all. I will continue our Times subscription and say goodbye to Newsweek after all these years. </p>
<p>They should read this thread!</p>
<p>Add me to the list of disgruntled Newsweek subscribers. What were they thinking? Or were they just panicking?</p>