A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published piece of paper, magazine or a radio or television program, usually weekly, consisting of articles about current events. News magazines generally discuss stories, in greater depth than do newspapers or newscasts, and aim to give the consumer an understanding of the important events beyond the basic facts.
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Broadcast news magazines
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. These broadcasts serve as an alternative in covering certain issues more in-depth than regular newscasts. The formula, first established by Panorama on the BBC in 1953 has proved successful around the world. Television news magazines provide several stories not seen on regular newscasts, including celebrity profiles, coverage of big businesses, hidden camera techniques, better international coverage, exposing and correcting injustices, in-depth coverage of a headline story, and hot topic interviews.
In the United States, television news magazines were very popular in the 1990s since they were a cheap and easy way to better use the investment in national television network Nightly News departments. Television news magazines once aired five nights a week on most television networks. However, with the success of reality shows, news magazines have largely been supplanted. Reality shows cost slightly less to produce and attain a younger and more loyal audience than the news magazines they replaced. Thus, the audience once attracted to news magazine shows have largely drifted to Cable television in the United States, where common news magazine topics such as nature, science, celebrities, and politics all have their own specialty channel.
Most commercial broadcasting television stations have local news that refers to news coverage of events in a local context which would not typically be of interest to those of other localities, or otherwise be of national or international scope.
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Notable print news magazines
Notable TV news magazines
Australia
- Four Corners (ABC)
- Dateline (SBS)
- 60 Minutes (Nine Network)
- Revealed (Network Ten)
- Sunday Night (Seven Network)
United States
- 20/20
- 60 Minutes
- 60 Minutes II
- 48 Hours
- America Now
- Bill Moyers Journal
- Business Nation
- CBS News Sunday Morning
- Connie Chung Tonight
- Dateline NBC
- Day One (ABC)
- E:60
- Expose (NBC) (Tom Brokaw - anchor; Brian Rose - correspondent; Michele Gillen - correspondent; Noah Nelson - correspondent)
- Eye to Eye with Connie Chung
- Frontline
- Inside Edition
- Now with Bill Moyers
- Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric
- Primetime Live
- Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel
- Real Life with Jane Pauley
- Rock Center with Brian Williams
- Saturday Night with Connie Chung
- Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly
- Turning Point
Canada
- 16x9
- The Fifth Estate
- Global Sunday
- This Hour Has Seven Days
- W5
Italy
- AnnoZero
- Ballarò
- In 1/2 h
- L'Infedele
- Porta a Porta
United Kingdom
- Dispatches (Channel 4)
- Exposure (ITV)
- Newsnight (BBC)
- On Assignment (ITV)
- The One Show (BBC)
- Panorama (BBC)
- Tonight (ITV)
- Unreported World (Channel 4)
Other countries
- BCN Week (Spain)
- Contacto (Chile)
- Domingo Espetacular (Brazil)
- European Journal (Belgium/Germany)
- Fantástico (Brazil)
- Informe Especial (Chile)
- Informe Semanal (Spain)
- Kastljós (Iceland)
- Mladina (Slovenia)
- News Magazine (????) (Hong Kong)
- Panorama (Bulgaria)
- Probe (Philippines)
- Reporter's Notebook (Philippines)
- Séptimo día (Colombia)
- Sunday Report - ????? (Hong Kong)
- Tagesthemen (Germany)
- Vsyaka Nedelya (Bulgaria)
Notable radio news magazines
International
- Newshour (every eight hours; BBC World Service)
Australia
- AM (Monday-Friday; ABC Local Radio))
- AM (Early Edition) (Monday-Saturday; Radio National)
- Breakfast (Monday-Friday; Radio National)
- PM (Monday-Friday; ABC Local Radio and Radio National)
- The World Today (Monday-Friday; ABC Local Radio and Radio National)
United Kingdom
- Breakfast (daily, BBC Radio Five Live)
- Broadcasting House (Sunday, Radio 4)
- PM (Monday-Saturday; Radio 4)
- Today (Monday-Saturday; Radio 4)
- The World at One (Monday-Friday; Radio 4)
- The World This Weekend (Sunday; Radio 4)
- The World Tonight (Monday-Friday; Radio 4)
- Worricker on Sunday (Sunday; Five Live)
United States
- All Things Considered (daily; NPR)
- America in the Morning with Jim Bohannon (weekdays; Westwood One)
- The John Batchelor Show (nightly; Westwood One)
- Morning Edition (daily, weekend version branded as Weekend Edition; NPR)
- This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal (weekdays; Compass)
- Weekend America (Saturday; APM)
- The World (daily; PRI/BBC)
Canada
- Canada Live (CBC)
- The Current Review (CBC)
- World Report The World At Six (CBC)
See also
- News program
- News media
References
External links
- Enverdo - Online Magazine
- The Guardian article on Newsmagazines
- Worldmag.com podcast of a radio news magazine
- Merrian Webster definition of News Magazine
- A brief history of the TV News Magazine TV Newser
- TV critic from Buffalo News on TV Newsmagazines
Source of article : Wikipedia
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