Product Description

This magazine provides world and international weekly news with an analytical and anticipatory focus. Its extensive business and economic coverage is complemented with practical news for a general readership. In addition, it contains life management information on personal finance, health technology, education and other matters which impact its readers' lives.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #408 in Magazine Subscriptions
• Formats: Magazine Subscription, Print

Customer Reviews

What happened to the News?
About 5 years ago I ran screaming from Time Magazine after reading one too many poorly written editorials. After looking around for a bit, I settled on US News which has been an excellent alternative -- until now.

This once proud news weekly is now only published once a month and no longer covers the broad range of current events that I had grown accustomed to. Now, it is just another face in a sea of monthly magazines and this one in particular seems to be fashioning itself as an alternative to Consumer Reports more than anything. Each monthly issue will now be written around a central theme such as health care, college, autos, environment, money, etc.

If that was information I wanted I would be thrilled, but that is not at all what I subscribed for. I'm looking for timely coverage of world events with insightful commentary and well thought out editorial content, and it appears that I will no longer be able to satisfy that desire with US News.

To be fair, they are planning to have more subscriber-only content online in the near future. Though I much prefer the printed magazine format, I will give the online content a fair shake before I cancel my subscription and move on to greener pastures elsewhere.

US News & World Reports
I subscribed to this news magazine in late November 2008. When I subscribed to it, it was advertised as a weekly subscription for (1) year. That would be 56 issues in 12 months. When January arrived and I wasn't receiving my weekly magazine, I called and inquired. I don't know when the switch to monthly issues begun, but I was not informed when the ad said weekly.

Fatal blow to a once excellent publication?
I have subscribed to US News & World Report for almost 10 years. Prior to that, as one other reviewer, I had ran screaming from the Newsweek. (Newsweek and Time both tend to sensationalist, shallow reporting that are completely contrary to my personal reading taste.)

Until some time in 2008, US N&WR was a weekly, then turned to bi-weekly, and finally in early 2009 it succumbed to only a monthly print publication that is the same size as a weekly once was but charges the same subscription price. Mind you, with a paid printed monthly you get an "electronic" PDF weekly version of what used to be a weekly print version. It is of course a much different format "more suitable" for an electronic reading device such as a personal computer. There is also a Kindle version but I am not shelling extra $300 for the Kindle because, forgive me, I am an old school when it comes to reading books.

As far as a weekly magazine, I would very much like to read a printed weekly with my Sunday morning coffee and catch up with all the week's events and in-depth commentary that US N&WR has been so good in providing in its printed weekly. Now, I could perhaps live with the electronic version if they had an easy way of transfer to iPhone, and if iPhone had a decent PDF viewer, but they don't and it doesn't.

I will update this review when and if I can find a way to fit the electronic version into my Sunday-coffee-and-a-nice-magazine reading routine.