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Anews magazine is a typed, printed, and publishedmagazine, radio, ortelevision program, usually published weekly, consisting of articles aboutcurrent events. News magazines generally discuss stories in greater depth thannewspapers ornewscasts do, and aim to give the consumer an understanding of the important events beyond the basic facts.
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 televisiondocumentaries rather than written articles; in contrast to a daily newscast, news magazines allow more in-depth coverage of specific topics, includingcurrent affairs,investigative journalism (includinghidden camera investigations), major interviews, andhuman-interest stories. TheBBC'sPanorama was one of the earliest examples, premiering in 1953.[1] In Canada,CTV premieredW5 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 forlong-form journalism across otherCTV News programming and platforms). It was the longest-running program of its kind in North America.[2][3][4]
In theUnited States, theBig Three networks all currently produce at least one weekly news magazine, includingABC's20/20,CBS's60 Minutes andCBS News Sunday Morning, and NBC'sDateline NBC; of these programs,60 Minutes typically focuses on investigative journalism,20/20 andDateline focus predominantly ontrue crime stories,[5][6][7] whileSunday Morning typically focuses on human-interest stories (up to and including stories onthe 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 asA Current Affair,Hard Copy andInside Edition—often had aninfotainment skew with a larger focus ontabloid stories (including coverage of celebrities such asMichael Jackson, and theO.J. Simpson andMenendez brothers murder cases) rather than the harder journalism associated with60 Minutes and20/20 at the time. CNN presidentEd 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, includingRock Center with Brian Williams—a more hard news-oriented program that aired for two seasons,[10][11] andSunday Night with Megyn Kelly—a short-lived primetime vehicle for the formerFox News correspondent.[12] In 2025, CBS relaunched its weekdayCBS 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 isWCVB-TV in Boston, which has continued to produce the nightly news magazineChronicle since 1982.[15]
In Brazil,TV Globo's news magazineFantástico 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 asSBT'sPrograma Silvio Santos, and fromRecord's competing news magazineDomingo Espetacular.[16]
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