# News magazine

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.

## 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; 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. 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.
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, while Sunday Morning typically focuses on human-interest stories (up to and including stories on the arts) and has a more relaxed tone.
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.
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. 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, and Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly—a short-lived primetime vehicle for the former Fox News correspondent. 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.
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.
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.

## Notable print news magazines

Major news magazines :
| News magazine | Country of origin |
| Klan | Albania |
| Mapo | Albania |
| Noticias | Argentina |
| CartaCapital | Brazil |
| Época | Brazil |
| IstoÉ | Brazil |
| Veja | Brazil |
| L'actualité | Canada |
| Maclean's | Canada |
| Semana | Colombia |
| Visión | Colombia |
| Týden | Czech Republic |
| Respekt | Czech Republic |
| Suomen Kuvalehti | Finland |
| L'Express | France |
| Marianne | France |
| L'Obs | France |
| Le Point | France |
| Der Spiegel | Germany |
| Stern | Germany |
| Focus | Germany |
| Yazhou Zhoukan | Hong Kong |
| Frontline | India |
| India Today | India |
| The Week | India |
| Outlook | India |
| Tehelka | India |
| HardNews | India |
| The Northeast Today | India |
| Shraman Bharti | India |
| Gatra | Indonesia |
| Tempo | Indonesia |
| L'Espresso | Italy |
| Famiglia Cristiana | Italy |
| Panorama | Italy |
| Proceso | Mexico |
| Zeta | Mexico |
| HP/De Tijd | Netherlands |
| Elsevier Weekblad | Netherlands |
| De Groene Amsterdammer | Netherlands |
| Nieuwe Revu | Netherlands |
| Vrij Nederland | Netherlands |
| Newswatch | Nigeria |
| Morgenbladet | Norway |
| Caretas | Peru |
| Polityka | Poland |
| Visão | Portugal |
| Ogoniok | Russia |
| The New Times | Russia |
| NIN | Serbia |
| Nedeljnik | Serbia |
| Novi magazin | Serbia |
| Mladina | Slovenia |
| Finweek | South Africa |
| Noseweek | South Africa |
| The Chosun Ilbo | South Korea |
| Fokus | Sweden |
| Korrespondent | Ukraine |
| The Economist | United Kingdom |
| New Statesman | United Kingdom |
| The Spectator | United Kingdom |
| The Week | United Kingdom |
| Bloomberg Businessweek | United States |
| The Atlantic | United States |
| The New Yorker | United States |
| The Nation | United States |
| Mother Jones | United States |
| National Review | United States |
| The New Republic | United States |
| Newsweek | United States |
| Time | United States |
| U.S. News & World Report | United States |
| World | United States |
| Zeta | Venezuela |

## Notable TV news magazines
### Australia

* Four Corners
* Dateline
* 60 Minutes
* Revealed
* Sunday Night

### Canada

* 16×9
* The Fifth Estate
* Global Sunday
* This Hour Has Seven Days
* W5

### 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

* Magandang Gabi... Bayan
* Pareng Partners
* Probe
* Reporter's Notebook
* Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho
* KBYN: Kaagapay ng Bayan
* Kuha Mo!
* Rated Korina
* Tao Po!

### United Kingdom

* Dispatches
* Exposure
* Newsnight
* On Assignment
* Panorama
* Tonight
* Unreported World

### United States

* 20/20
* 60 Minutes
* 60 Minutes II
* 48 Hours
* America Now
* 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
* Weekend

### Other countries

* Brazil
** Domingo Espetacular
** Fantástico
* Bulgaria
** Panorama
** Vsyaka nedelya
* Chile
** Contacto
** Informe especial
* Hong Kong
** News Magazine (新聞透視)
** Sunday Report (星期日檔案)
* Spain
** BCN Week
** Informe Semanal
* European Journal (Belgium/Germany)
* Kastljós (Iceland)
* Mladina (Slovenia)
* Provjereno (Croatia)
* Séptimo día (Colombia)
* Tagesthemen (Germany)
* On the Spot (Indonesia)

## Notable radio news magazines
### International

* Newshour

### Australia

* AM
* RN Breakfast
* PM
* The World Today

### Canada

* Canada Live
* The Current
* The World at Six

### 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

* All Things Considered
* America in The Morning
* Eye on the World
* Morning Edition (weekend version branded as Weekend Edition)
* This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal
* Weekend America
* The World