Newsmagazine

A newsmagazine, sometimes called news magazine, is a usually weekly magazine featuring articles on current events. News magazines generally go a little more in-depth into stories than newspapers, trying to give the reader an understanding of the context surrounding important events, rather than just the facts.

Television news magazines

Television news magazines provide a similar service to print news magazines, but their stories are presented as short television documentaries rather than written articles.

Related Topics:
Television - Documentaries

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These broadcasts serve as an alternative in covering certain issues more in-depth than regular newscasts. The formula, first established by 60 Minutes on CBS in 1968, is incredibly successful, and remains to be one of CBS's highest-rated programs.

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Examples include:

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• Dateline NBC
• 20/20
• 60 Minutes
• Studio 2
• the fifth estate
• This Hour Has Seven Days
• W5

Newsmagazines 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.

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See also: news program

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