US news magazine Newsweek faces radical relaunch

The American news magazine Newsweek is about to undergo a radical relaunch. As the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Tuesday, speculation has been circulating for months that Newsweek wants to move away from the traditional business of a news magazine. Instead, the magazine wants to become more opinionated and more unconventional in its choice of topics. A more educated audience is to be targeted and the subscription price is to double. The appearance will also change. The relaunch is planned for May.
The background to this rejuvenation is said to be the crisis in the print media in the USA: News magazines are struggling - Time is losing circulation, US News & World Report has been converted from a weekly to a monthly magazine. Newsweek, which was founded in the 1930s, has been making losses for some time now. The magazine is owned by the Washington Post.