80 Years Of Newsweek Covers That Explained The World
The iconic weekly magazine announced Thursday it’s killing its print edition.
3. But even on Dec. 7, 1941, publishing once a week made it tough to get breaking news on the cover.
17. Of course, we all remember that in the ’60s, lots of us we were flying very, very, very, very, very, very, very, yerv, very, vrey, verrrrrry high………….
18. A crash was to be expected, and one happened on Kent State’s campus in 1970.
19. Woodward and Bernstein got to the bottom of it all.
(The duo worked for the Washington Post, which used to own Newsweek, btw.)
20. Thankfully there were lots of distractions, like this hit show starring Rob Reiner, the director of When Harry Met Sally.
22. This fashion designer was a hit.
Her husband, Barry Diller, now owns the magazine.
27. But 41 really didn’t love this.
Then Vice President Bush gave access to the Newsweek reporter during an election year because he expected it would be a positive profile. It wasn’t.
28. Lots of people we loved still tragically died from this, and we swore to all them that we would find a cure.
29. The decade ended with Chinese students and workers in Tianemen Square.
35. In 1996, Newsweek editors promised Hillary this was going to be a positive story about her. It wasn’t.
40. And Bill was really pissed at Newsweek. So he gave access to Time in 1999.
42. And everyone had a glorious 19 months to be stuck in pre-9/11 thinking, a time when bad movies got made and bad covers got picked and THAT seemed like the real catastrophe.
46. But if we’re being honest, we kind of freaked out and panicked and did some very dumb things.
48. That being said, Newsweek has always reminded us there are lots of dangerous foreigners out there.
51. But Newsweek has always been there to remind us that Jesus is out there, too.
53. And the Next Really Big Thing!
In Dec. 2004, Obama appeared on Newsweek’s cover a month after he was elected to the Illinois senate. It was the future president’s first national magazine cover. Good call Mark Whitaker!
58. Because the Newsweek cover at its best always captures our most historic moments as a people.
Written by BuzzFeed’s McKay Coppins
59. Cultural moments, as well.
Though they should have gotten Brett Easton Ellis to write this one
60. And in a world without any more Newsweek covers to turn the page for us, to mark new chapters, to remind us of what’s possible, and what’s next…
Special thanks to Sam Register, who keeps the best Newsweek Tumblr account around. Check it out.
With additional research by Rebecca Elliott.
Disclosure: Hastings worked for Newsweek from 2002-2008. He still loves the place.
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christianh4 6 months agoIn the last few years they devolved into trolls, baiting real news outlets with their smash-and-grab headlines and awful editorial coverage. I had a subscription to Newsweek for a full year, and I very rarely was satisfied with the extent of their journalistic investigation, and was almost always disappointed with their headline-grabbing antics. Probably for the best they’re sticking to the internet, where the trolls can troll them back.
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dangerouslytalented 9 months agoAnd magazines might announce their own deaths on their front pages, but you will read about it online.
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Even though it was the sign of the times, I still cringed from the usage of “jap” and “negro”.
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