A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published
magazine, radio or
television program
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...
, usually published weekly, consisting of articles about current events. News magazines generally discuss stories, in greater depth than do
newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports ...
or
newscast
News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or telev ...
s, and aim to give the consumer an understanding of the important events beyond the basic facts.
Broadcast news magazines
Radio
Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmi ...
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
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...
news magazines provide a similar service to print news magazines, but their stories are presented as short television
documentaries
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in term ...
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
News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or telev ...
magazines were very popular in the 1990s since they were a cheap and easy way to better use the investment in national
television network
A television network or television broadcaster is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay television providers. Until the mid- ...
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 has largely drifted to
cable television
Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables. This contrasts with bro ...
, where common news magazine topics such as
nature
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,
science
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Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
,
celebrities
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, and
politics
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that stud ...
all have their own
specialty channels.
Most
commercial broadcasting television stations
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the ear ...
have
local news that refers to
news
News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. N ...
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.
Notable print news magazines
Notable TV news magazines
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Dateline
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60 Minutes'' (Nine Network)
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Revealed'' (Network Ten)
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Sunday Night'' (Seven Network)
United States
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60 Minutes''
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60 Minutes II''
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48 Hours''
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America Now''
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America's Heartland''
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Aquí y Ahora
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Bill Moyers Journal
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Business Nation''
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CBS News Sunday Morning''
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Connie Chung Tonight
''Connie Chung Tonight'' is an American television newsmagazine hosted by Connie Chung. The hour-long series premiered on CNN on June 24, 2002. At first the show was live, then previously taped in a move the network hoped would improve the program ...
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Dateline NBC
''Dateline NBC'' is a weekly American television news magazine/reality legal show that is broadcast on NBC. It was previously the network's flagship general interest news magazine, but now focuses mainly on true crime stories with only occasio ...
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Day One Day One may refer to:
Film and television
* ''Day One'' (1989 film), a 1989 television film
* ''Day One'', also known as ''To Write Love on Her Arms'', a 2012 drama film
* ''Day One'' (2015 film), a 2015 short film
* ''Day One'' (TV series), a ...
'' (
ABC
ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet.
ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting
* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
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Expose
Expose, exposé, or exposed may refer to:
News sources
* Exposé (journalism), a form of investigative journalism
* '' The Exposé'', a British conspiracist website
Film and TV Film
* ''Exposé'' (film), a 1976 thriller film
* ''Exposed'' (1932 ...
'' (
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are l ...
)
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Eye to Eye with Connie Chung
''Eye to Eye With Connie Chung'' is an American news show that aired on CBS from 1993 to 1995. The show, hosted by Connie Chung as a second project from her time as co-anchoring the ''CBS Evening News'' with Dan Rather, she hosted and would often ...
''
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Frontline
Front line refers to the forward-most forces on a battlefield.
Front line, front lines or variants may also refer to:
Books and publications
* ''Front Lines'' (novel), young adult historical novel by American author Michael Grant
* ''Frontlines ...
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Inside Edition
''Inside Edition'' is an American news broadcasting newsmagazine program that is distributed in first-run syndication by CBS Media Ventures. Having premiered on January 9, 1989, it is the longest-running syndicated-newsmagazine program that is no ...
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Now with Bill Moyers''
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Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric''
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Primetime Live''
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Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel''
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Real Life with Jane Pauley
''Real Life with Jane Pauley'' was a newsmagazine television program aired in the United States by NBC from 1990 to 1991. ''Real Life with Jane Pauley'' seemed to be presented as an answer to both critics and members of the general public to the ...
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Rock Center with Brian Williams
''Rock Center with Brian Williams'' was an American weekly television newsmagazine that was broadcast on NBC from October 31, 2011 to June 21, 2013 and hosted by former ''NBC Nightly News'' anchor Brian Williams. It aired on Mondays until January ...
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Saturday Night with Connie Chung''
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Small Town Big Deal
''Small Town Big Deal'' is an American television news magazine that runs in first-run syndication with a focus on human interest stories in rural America. The TV program is co-hosted by Rodney K. Miller and Jann Carl. Together, they travel th ...
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Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly''
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Turning Point
A turning point, or climax, is the point of highest tension in a narrative work.
Turning Point or Turning Points may refer to:
Film
* ''The Turning Point'', a 1914 silent film starring Caroline Cooke
* ''The Turning Point'' (1920 film), an Ame ...
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Canada
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16x9
16:9 (1.7:1) is a widescreen aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9.
Once seen as exotic, since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for televisions and computer monitors, and is also the international standard ima ...
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The Fifth Estate''
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Global Sunday''
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This Hour Has Seven Days''
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W5''
Mexico
Noticieros Televisa
Noticieros Televisa (branded as N+ after the Televisa-Univision merge) is the news division of Grupo Televisa, which produces national and local news for Televisa's TV channels and local stations across Mexico.
It was headed by Leopoldo Gómez ...
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The News with Claudio ochoa''
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Wake up with Danielle Dithurbide''
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On Air. with Paola Rojas''
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The News with Karla Iberia Sánchez
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On Point. with Denise Maerker ''
Italy
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IN, In or in may refer to:
Places
* India (country code IN)
* Indiana, United States (postal code IN)
* Ingolstadt, Germany (license plate code IN)
* In, Russia, a town in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Businesses and organizations
* Independ ...
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Porta a Porta
''Porta a Porta'' (literally ''Door-to-door'') is an Italian late night television talk show hosted by the Italian journalist Bruno Vespa
Bruno Paolo Vespa (born 27 May 1944) is an Italian television and newspaper journalist.
A former directo ...
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United Kingdom
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Dispatches'' (Channel 4)
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Exposure'' (ITV)
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Newsnight
''Newsnight'' (or ''BBC Newsnight'') is BBC Two's news and current affairs programme, providing in-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines. The programme is broadcast on weekdays at 22:30. and is also availa ...
'' (BBC)
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On Assignment
''On Assignment'' is an ITV current affairs programme, fronted by '' ITV News'' international affairs editor, Rageh Omaar. The programme first aired on 19 March 2014, following ''ITV News at Ten''.
ITV News produces the half-hour programmes, ...
'' (ITV)
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The One Show
''The One Show'' is a British television magazine and chat show programme. Broadcast live on BBC One weeknights at 7:00 pm, it features topical stories and studio guests. It is currently co-hosted by Alex Jones, Jermaine Jenas, and Ronan K ...
'' (BBC)
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Good Morning Britain'' (ITV)
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This Morning'' (ITV)
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Panorama'' (BBC)
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Tonight
Tonight may refer to:
Television
* ''Tonight'' (1957 TV programme), a 1957–1965 British current events television programme hosted by Cliff Michelmore that was broadcast on BBC
* ''Tonight'' (1975 TV programme), a 1975–1979 British current ...
'' (ITV)
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Unreported World'' (Channel 4)
Other countries
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BCN Week'' (Spain)
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Contacto'' (Chile)
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Domingo Espetacular'' (Brazil)
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European Journal
''European Journal'' was a weekly, 30-minute Deutsche Welle (DW) news programme produced in English from 1992–2014. It was broadcast from Brussels, Belgium and primarily covered political and economic developments across the European Union a ...
'' (Belgium/Germany)
*''
Fantástico
''Fantástico'' (originally known as ''Fantástico: O Show da Vida'', Portuguese for ''Fantastic The Show of Life'') is a Brazilian weekly television news program broadcast on Sunday nights on Rede Globo since August 5, 1973, created by José Bo ...
'' (Brazil)
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Informe Especial'' (Chile)
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Informe Semanal'' (Spain)
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Kastljós'' (Iceland)
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Magandang Gabi... Bayan!'' (Philippines)
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Mladina
''Mladina'' (English: Youth) is a Slovenian weekly left-wing political and current affairs magazine. Since the 1920s, when it was first published, it has become a voice of protest against those in power. Today, ''Mladinas weekly issues are dis ...
'' (Slovenia)
*''
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 do newspapers or n ...
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Panorama'' (Bulgaria)
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Pareng Partners
''Pareng Partners'' is a Philippine television news magazine program broadcast by ABS-CBN on July 28, 2018 and airs every Saturday at 5:15 pm ( PST). It is hosted by Anthony Taberna and Jorge Cariño. The show ended on March 23, 2019 with a total ...
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Probe'' (Philippines)
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Provjereno'' (Croatia)
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Reporter's Notebook'' (Philippines)
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Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho
''Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho'' (International title: ''One at Heart, Jessica Soho'' / ) also known as ''KMJS'', is a Philippine television news magazine show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Jessica Soho, it premiered on November 7, 2004 on th ...
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Séptimo día'' (Colombia)
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Sunday Report'' – ''星期日檔案'' (Hong Kong)
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Tagesthemen
''Tagesthemen'' is one of Germany's main daily television news magazines, presented by journalists Caren Miosga and Ingo Zamperoni. Second only to the 20:00 ''Tagesschau'' ("Review of the Day") ''Tagesthemen'' ("Issues of the Day") is ARD's most ...
'' (Germany)
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Vsyaka Nedelya'' (Bulgaria)
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Kuha Mo!
''Kuha Mo!'' () is a Philippine documentary and news magazine television program broadcast by ABS-CBN, hosted by Anthony Taberna. It premiered on April 27, 2019 to July 25, 2020 and airs worldwide on The Filipino Channel, replacing ''DocuCentral ...
'' (Philippines)
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Rated K
''Rated Korina'' (formerly known as ''Rated K'') is a Philippine television newscast lifestyle and Magazine show produced by Brightlight Productions and associated by ABS-CBN, hosted by Korina Sanchez. It currently broadcast via Cignal TV's On ...
'' (Philippines)
Notable radio news magazines
International
* ''
Newshour'' (every eight hours;
BBC World Service)
Mexico
*'' W noticias ''
XEW-AM
XEW-AM is a radio station in Mexico City, Mexico, broadcasting on the AM frequency of 900 kHz; it is branded as ''W Radio''. XEW-AM serves as the originating station for other "W Radio" stations around Mexico that carry some of its program ...
*
XHDL-FM
XHDL-FM is a radio station on 98.5 FM in Mexico City. XHDL is owned by ''El Heraldo de México'' and operates as a news/talk station known as El Heraldo Radio.
History
98.5 FM began as XELA-FM in 1962, owned by Radio Metropolitana, S.A., the con ...
'' heraldo of Mexico
Australia
* ''
AM'' (Monday–Friday; ABC Local Radio))
* ''
AM (Early Edition)'' (Monday–Saturday; Radio National)
* ''
Breakfast'' (Monday–Friday;
Radio National
Radio National, known on-air as RN, is an Australia-wide public service broadcasting radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). From 1947 until 1985, the network was known as ABC Radio 2.
History
1937: Predecessors a ...
)
* ''
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
BBC Radio 5 Live is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that broadcasts mainly news, sport, discussion, interviews and phone-ins. It is the principal BBC radio station covering sport in the United Kingdom, broadcas ...
)
* ''
Broadcasting House'' (Sunday,
Radio 4)
* ''
PM'' (Monday–Saturday; Radio 4)
* ''
Today
Today (archaically to-day) may refer to:
* Day of the present, the time that is perceived directly, often called ''now''
* Current era, present
* The current calendar date
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Today'' (1930 film), a 1930 ...
'' (Monday–Saturday; Radio 4)
* ''
The World at One
''The World at One'', or ''WATO'' ("what-oh") for short, is BBC Radio 4's long-running lunchtime news and current affairs programme, produced by BBC News, which is currently broadcast from 13:00 to 13:45 from Monday to Friday. The programme de ...
'' (Monday–Friday; Radio 4)
* ''
The World This Weekend'' (Sunday; Radio 4)
* ''
The World Tonight
''The World Tonight'' is a British current affairs radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4, every weekday evening, which started out as an extension of the 10 pm news. It is produced by BBC News and features news, analysis and comment on domes ...
'' (Monday–Friday; Radio 4)
* ''
Worricker on Sunday'' (Sunday; Five Live)
United States
* ''
All Things Considered
''All Things Considered'' (''ATC'') is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR). It was the first news program on NPR, premiering on May 3, 1971. It is broadcast live on NPR affiliated stations in the United ...
'' (daily;
NPR
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)
* ''
America in the Morning'' (weekdays;
Westwood One
Westwood One is an American radio network owned by Cumulus Media. The company syndicates talk, music, and sports programming.
The company takes its name from an earlier network also named Westwood One, a company founded in 1978. The compan ...
)
* ''Eye on the World'' with
John Batchelor
John Calvin Batchelor (born April 29, 1948) is an American author and host of ''Eye on the World'' on the CBS Audio Network. His flagship station is New York's 710 WOR. The show is a hard-news-analysis radio program on current events, world his ...
(nightly;
CBS
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)
* ''
Morning Edition
''Morning Edition'' is an American radio news program produced and distributed by NPR. It airs weekday mornings (Monday through Friday) and runs for two hours, and many stations repeat one or both hours. The show feeds live from 5:00 to 9:00 A ...
'' (daily, weekend version branded as ''
Weekend Edition
''Weekend Edition'' is a set of American radio news magazine programs produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). It is the weekend counterpart to the NPR radio program '' Morning Edition''. It consists of ''Weekend Edition Saturday ...
''; NPR)
* ''
This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal
''This Morning: America's First News'' (formerly ''The Wall Street Journal This Morning'') is a two-hour radio news/talk program hosted by Gordon Deal and Jennifer Kushinka, who replaced long-serving co-host Gina Cervetti on January 2, 2015. In a ...
'' (weekdays;
Compass
A compass is a device that shows the cardinal directions used for navigation and geographic orientation. It commonly consists of a magnetized needle or other element, such as a compass card or compass rose, which can pivot to align itself wit ...
)
* ''
Weekend America'' (Saturday;
APM)
* ''
The World
In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...
'' (daily; PRI/BBC)
Canada
* ''Canada Live'' (CBC)
* ''The Current Review'' (CBC)
* ''World Report The World At Six'' (CBC)
See also
*
News program
News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or televi ...
*
News media
The news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public. These include news agencies, print media (newspapers, news magazines), broadcast news (radio and television), and ...
References
External links
''The Guardian'' article on NewsmagazinesWorldmag.com podcast of a radio news magazine Merrian-Webster definition of news magazineA brief history of the TV news magazine ''TV Newser''TV critic from ''Buffalo News'' on TV newsmagazines
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