News Magazines

Historically, people in the United States have relied upon three major weekly news magazines: Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report. Time was founded in 1923 by Briton Haden and Henry Luce and was the first weekly news magazine in the United States. Time's tone is lighter than that of the other two and heavily covers celebrities, entertainment, and pop culture. It often attempts to tell its stories through people and for many years has featured single individuals on its cover. Time's “Person of the Year” is its most famous feature. Each year the magazine recognizes in a cover story an individual or group of individuals who have had the largest impact upon that year. Newsweek, founded in 1933 by Thomas J. C. Martin, ...