U.S. weekly newsmagazine, published in New York City.
Founded (as News-Week ) in 1933 by Thomas J.C. Martyn, a former editor of Time , it merged with Today magazine in 1937. It initially offered a rather drab survey of the news with columns of analysis. After World War II it grew livelier, especially after its purchase by Philip Graham, publisher of The Washington Post , in 1961. It has a strong reputation for accurate, brisk, and vivid reporting and, like Time , presents news in terse summary form, organized by departments.