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  Posted By: elewatts @ 07/02/2009 2:03:45 AM

  I've been an avid reader of your magazine since I was in high school (I'm now 23). I didn't have access to Newsweek while living abroad this past year, so now I'm trying to catch up on the past couple of issues. However, I find this new print format a bit difficult to read - there's a lot of white space on the pages, and the layout of the articles makes them look like advertisements. Most troubling to me is that the hard news stories have lost their impact because the the page designs look less serious, even spacey. I appreciate your work to keep the magazine looking clean and efficient, but I think this layout design still needs a bit of tweaking. Otherwise, I like articles and columns as much as ever.

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  Posted By: jb771502 @ 06/04/2009 10:33:58 PM

  I'll be perfectly honest- I wasn't entirely in love with the new design, although no one is ever really happy with change, so that's probably minor and I"ll get over it, as will most people. That being said, I've been reading Newsweek for about ten years maybe, and I do appreciate some of the content changes that you guys have implemented. I feel like the main stories go more in depth than they used to, which is a nice change. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the "Back Story" section- for example, this week is a buffalo, which is supposed to show who owns the US's debt, but for some reason leaves off the part that the US owns, and....I'm not sure how I'm supposed to turn a percentage of a buffalo's body part into something meaningful. That one was a slight miss. But I think it's great that you guys are being innovative, and I'm sure you're getting a lot of slack right now, so I just wanted to put my positive two-cents in.

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  Posted By: DHCCHD @ 05/23/2009 1:27:59 AM

  Dear Mr. Meacham: I'm an extreme news hound. Each Saturday night I copy and paste news articles into text files. convert them into Text-To-Speech (TTS) mp3 files, and listen to them Sunday with an iPod and noise reduction earphones. I've always considered "Newsweek/WashingtonPost Interactive Company (including Slate) an equal with The New York Times. No More. Your renovation of Newsweek is a disaster. Michael Kinsley's New Republic article, Backward Runs 'Newsweek' masterly hits the mark. Of course we need this magazine to sum-up, rehash the news. Even news hounds can not read and digest the weeks news. Too bad. It was nice while it lasted. In its present form Newsweek is about as bad as Time Magazine. Which is pretty damn bad. It's time to subscribe to The New York Times - real cash for the real paper paper. We need to have one great source for the news. Goodbye and good luck with your new career, after Newsweek folds.
  David Chasey
  P.S. I've registered today just to say Good-Bye