<p>^^He overpaid.</p>
<p>LOL coureur!!</p>
<p>I am going to have my subscription, which expires in April, forwarded to my s at college. He likes to read it. I have stopped reading it-- after about 30 years. A true shame.</p>
<p>Anyone looking for a solid news magazine, might want to try World Magazine. I remember having to decide between Time and Newsweek and World as I could only afford one subscription. We went with World and whenever I’m in a doctor’s office I get to look over the latest Time/Newsweek and I’m reminded that I chose well in choosing World.</p>
<p>A word of warning - it does have a different bent than Time and Newsweek.
I do like it’s solid news bent.</p>
<p>Here is their web site: [WORLD</a> Magazine | Today’s News, Christian Views](<a href=“http://www.worldmag.com/index.cfm]WORLD”>http://www.worldmag.com/index.cfm)</p>
<p>The era has ended. I received my last Newsweek yesterday. I let my subscription expire…after 34 years!</p>
<p>They should take you out for a retirement lunch. :)</p>
<p>I’m also not renewing.</p>
<p>For Christmas I’ve asked for a subscription to the weekend New York Times. I even wrote it down for H. (He is still baffled. “The Wall Street Journal?”)</p>
<p>I am also not renewing my Newsweek subscriptions after quite a few years (about 10), and I am not renewing two subscriptions I gave for several years as gifts. I predict Newsweek’s remaining life is short.</p>
<p>I also canceled my daily newspaper subscription, which has been strange. I have received the daily paper all my adult life, for the last 38 years. I just buy the NY Times now, about 3-4 days a week. The quality of that paper is so much better than our local paper; no comparison.</p>
<p>I started getting Newsweek when it was a requirement of my 8th grade (!) Civics class, and continued with it without interruption for decades, but dropped it when the internet began to make all news weeklies obsolete. For some reason I’ve been getting complimentary copies of both Newsweek and Time for the last several months and find little to read in either of them. Since its sale to Sidney Harman this summer, Newsweek has been in a transitional phase, with its former editorial staff gone and new editor-in-chief Tina Brown (of the Daily Beast) not yet wielding her influence. Tina Brown is quite a phenomenon, so I’m interested to see her 21st century vision of the publication. Hope they keep sending me free copies!</p>
<p>I’ve also appreciated the free copies Newsweek is sending after I decided not to renew after more years of subscribing than I can count. I actually like the new magazine and read much of it, although there’s not too much there to begin with. If I remember and can make time, I’ll peruse it at the library once in a while.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I already wrote this in this thread’s previous life, but I’ll go again…</p>
<p>I have a sibling who is actually a senior writer for not Newsweek, but a “of that gender” type magazine. Another slant on the changes these magazines makes comes from talking to someone who is involved with the magazine. </p>
<p>First of all, we could venture to say, that many on CC are perhaps the exception rather than the “norm” in terms of our country’s readership - we seek and value excellent quality education - in a classroom, in our extra-curricular reading. </p>
<p>What’s a magazine to do? (to survive)</p>
<p>The general public prefers to sit in front of a tv or computer rather than w/paper in their hand.</p>
<p>The general public is economically suffering and is cutting corners - online news sources - whether quality or not (think Yahoo news, MSN - the stuff that people “homepage” on their computers) tend to be the first, if not only stop people make for “news”.</p>
<p>The general public is time crunched - or chooses other activities other than paper in hand reading. Life is more busy, families spend much of their after school/work time running around in a van, and people are working through their lunches instead of taking a relaxing lunch.</p>
<p>So how to adjust your magazine to satisfy the general population? Smaller, quicker bites. Include entertainment/media/trendy topics. Set up the magazine for quick access to popular features. While still trying to maintain the integrity of excellent, thought-provoking writing. It’s tough. </p>
<p>Myself, I find myself choosing a novel anyday over a magazine anymore. Unless I’m on the beach. 
Then I LOVE a magazine!</p>
<p>What’s a magazine</p>