Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A magazine, usually published weekly, containing reports and analyses of current events.
  • noun A television program that presents a variety of topics, usually on current events, often by using interviews and commentary.

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  • noun A magazine that specializes in delivering news
  • noun broadcasting A news show presenting feature-length stories on current events, rather than immediate reports

Etymologies

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news +‎ magazine

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Examples

  • In addition, a journalist for a national newsmagazine is striving to verify the lethal story that, two years ago, while still married, Kerry had a secret love affair with Lara Costello, a reporter assigned to him on Capitol Hill.

    No Safe Place: Summary and book reviews of No Safe Place by Richard North Patterson. 1998

  • The closing of the newsmagazine was announced after the nation's leading opposition newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, lost a key court case on Friday.

    Russia Press Freedom Narrows With Newsweek Closure 2010

  • Because celebrities refuse to cross the Writers Guild of America's picket lines, a "newsmagazine" version of the original ceremony aired.

    Home | The New York Observer 2009

  • Had your article been written about an Arab conspiracy to infect the land with Shariah Law - as has been attempted - your "newsmagazine" would have been met with the full clout of the law as being classified "hate" literature.

    The Walrus Magazine 2008

  • Had your article been written about an Arab conspiracy to infect the land with Shariah Law - as has been attempted - your "newsmagazine" would have been met with the full clout of the law as being classified "hate" literature.

    The Walrus Magazine 2008

  • Had your article been written about an Arab conspiracy to infect the land with Shariah Law - as has been attempted - your "newsmagazine" would have been met with the full clout of the law as being classified "hate" literature.

    The Walrus Magazine 2008

  • "newsmagazine" parodies but most of all how I was blown away by your astonishing quickness of wit, most evident in the unscripted interviews.

    Slate Magazine 2009

  • Their talk, broadcast Monday on the "Rock Center" newsmagazine, was part of a remarkable evening of news interviews on broadcast TV.

    Bob Costas Interviews Jerry Sandusky About Penn State Scandal On NBC The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • As the wheezing, purblind, quasi-survivor of the palsied medium of the weekly newsmagazine, Time's deathbed achievement was outlasting Newsweek, its ancient foe, which opted for accidental suicide by dispensing with news altogether and imagining that commercially adequate numbers of people would pay for a glossy magazine composed of the boring opinions of undistinguished commentators.

    Conrad Black: Time's Fatuous and Egregious Coverage of Wall Street Prosecutor Conrad Black 2012

  • As the wheezing, purblind, quasi-survivor of the palsied medium of the weekly newsmagazine, Time's deathbed achievement was outlasting Newsweek, its ancient foe, which opted for accidental suicide by dispensing with news altogether and imagining that commercially adequate numbers of people would pay for a glossy magazine composed of the boring opinions of undistinguished commentators.

    Conrad Black: Time's Fatuous and Egregious Coverage of Wall Street Prosecutor Conrad Black 2012

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