News magazine
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A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published magazine, radio, or television program, usually published weekly, consisting of articles about current events. News magazines generally discuss stories in greater depth than newspapers or newscasts do, and aim to give the consumer an understanding of the important events beyond the basic facts.
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Broadcast news magazines
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Radio news magazines are similar to television news magazines. Unlike radio newscasts, which are typically about five minutes in length, radio news magazines can run from 30 minutes to three hours or more.
Television news magazines provide a similar service to print news magazines, but their stories are presented as short television documentaries rather than written articles; in contrast to a daily newscast, news magazines allow more in-depth coverage of specific topics, including current affairs, investigative journalism (including hidden camera investigations), major interviews, and human-interest stories. The BBC's Panorama was one of the earliest examples, premiering in 1953.[1] In Canada, CTV premiered W5 in 1966, running for 58 seasons before being cancelled in 2024 due to budget cuts by its parent company (and being repurposed as a brand for long-form journalism across other CTV News programming and platforms). It was the longest-running program of its kind in North America.[2][3][4]
In the United States, the Big Three networks all currently produce at least one weekly news magazine, including ABC's 20/20, CBS's 60 Minutes and CBS News Sunday Morning, and NBC's Dateline NBC; of these programs, 60 Minutes typically focuses on investigative journalism, 20/20 and Dateline focus predominantly on true crime stories,[5][6][7] while Sunday Morning typically focuses on human-interest stories (up to and including stories on the arts) and has a more relaxed tone.[8][9]
News magazines proliferated on network schedules in the early 1990s, as they had lower production costs in comparison to scripted programs, and could attract equivalent if not larger audiences. At the same time, newer newsmagazines—including syndicated offerings such as A Current Affair, Hard Copy and Inside Edition—often had an infotainment skew with a larger focus on tabloid stories (including coverage of celebrities such as Michael Jackson, and the O.J. Simpson and Menendez brothers murder cases) rather than the harder journalism associated with 60 Minutes and 20/20 at the time. CNN president Ed Turner argued that these shows had eclipsed the networks' evening newscasts as their flagship programs at the expense of their news divisions' traditions of hard journalism.[6]
By the late-1990s, Dateline would establish a niche in true crime to set it apart from its competitors—a format that would bolster its popularity, and lead the show to being on as many as five times per-week at its peak.[6] NBC experimented with other news magazines in the 2010s, including Rock Center with Brian Williams—a more hard news-oriented program that aired for two seasons,[10][11] and Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly—a short-lived primetime vehicle for the former Fox News correspondent.[12] In 2025, CBS relaunched its weekday CBS Evening News with a more news magazine-like format, focusing on in-depth stories rather than summarizing top stories like its competitors.[13][14]
Some local television stations in the U.S. have produced news magazines, although they have largely been displaced by cheaper programming acquired from the syndication market. An exception is WCVB-TV in Boston, which has continued to produce the nightly news magazine Chronicle since 1982.[15]
In Brazil, TV Globo's news magazine Fantástico has aired on Sunday nights. Historically, it has been one of the top programs on Brazilian television, although its dominance is no longer as absolute as it was in the past due to competition from variety shows such as SBT's Programa Silvio Santos, and from Record's competing news magazine Domingo Espetacular.[16]
Notable print news magazines
Notable TV news magazines
Australia
Canada
Italy
- AnnoZero
- Ballarò
- In ½ h
- L'Infedele
- Porta a Porta
Mexico
- Noticieros Televisa
- On Air. with Paola Rojas
- The News with Karla Iberia Sánchez
- On Point. with Denise Maerker
Philippines
United Kingdom
United States
- 20/20
- 60 Minutes
- 60 Minutes II
- 48 Hours
- America Now[17]
- America's Heartland
- Aquí y Ahora
- Bill Moyers Journal
- Business Nation
- CBS News Sunday Morning
- Connie Chung Tonight
- Dateline NBC
- Day One
- E:60
- Expose
- Eye to Eye with Connie Chung
- Frontline
- Inside Edition
- Now on PBS
- Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric
- Primetime
- Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel
- Real Life with Jane Pauley
- Rock Center with Brian Williams
- Saturday Night with Connie Chung
- Small Town Big Deal
- Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly
- Turning Point[18]
- Weekend
Other countries
- Brazil
- Domingo Espetacular
- Fantástico
- Bulgaria
- Panorama
- Vsyaka nedelya
- Chile
- Hong Kong
- News Magazine (新聞透視)
- Sunday Report (星期日檔案)
- Spain
- European Journal (Belgium/Germany)
- Kastljós (Iceland)
- Mladina (Slovenia)
- Provjereno (Croatia)
- Séptimo día (Colombia)
- Tagesthemen (Germany)
- On the Spot (Indonesia)
Notable radio news magazines
International
Australia
Canada
Mexico
- W noticias (XEW-AM)
- El Heraldo Radio
United Kingdom
- Breakfast (BBC Radio Five Live)
- Broadcasting House
- PM
- Today
- The World at One
- The World This Weekend
- The World Tonight
- Worricker on Sunday (Five Live)
United States
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