{"id":1900,"date":"2026-06-11T13:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:37:28","slug":"politico-relaunches-magazine-with-new-weekend-focus-on-examining-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1900","title":{"rendered":"Politico Relaunches Magazine With New Weekend Focus on Examining Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nPolitico wants to power its way into your weekend news diet.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe political-news behemoth, part of Axel Springer, is relaunching its longform journalism efforts this weekend with a new crack at a weekly \u201cmagazine,\u201d or in this case a package of five to six longform stories that will examine the people and polices that shape power around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1898\">\u2018Heart of the Beast\u2019 Trailer: Brad Pitt and a German Shepherd Struggle to Survive the Alaskan Wilderness<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThere is a wide world of people who may read the Wall Street Journal\u2019s \u2018Weekend\u2019 section, or The New York Times Magazine who we think we can pull in with a package of content that is aimed at the theme of power,\u201d says Alex Burns, senior executive editor of North American for Politico, during a recent interview. \u201cThere are audiences who want deeply reported, richly written enterprise journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe initial group of stories includes a feature from Sophia Cai that examines the secret U.S. political history of the World Cup. Samuel Benson will detail the racism Vivek Ramaswamy faces in his quest to be Ohio\u2019s next governor. \u00a0Alice Ollstein and Megan Messerly offer the untold story of why the Trump Administration reversed itself on HIV prevention. \u00a0Ian Ward details a plan by the \u201cNew Right\u201d to use VC-backed charter communities to Christianize America. And Jack Blanchard profiles Andy Burnham, the audacious British mayor looking to beat the populist right and then topple Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPolitico\u2019s most die-hard customers, its \u201cPro\u201d subscribers, will generally get an early 24-hour window to read the stories before they are made available to a wider audience. A Sunday newsletter will serve to bring the fuller package to readers.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tKnown largely for focusing on maneuverings going on inside-the Beltway (and in other global capitals), Politico has in recent months set its sights on a broader crowd. Last year, it launched \u201cThe Conversation,\u201d a podcast led by journalist Dasha Burns, which executives at the time had hopes might vie with some of the venerable Sunday shows from the TV networks, such as \u201cFace the Nation\u201d or \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1896\">\u2018Paper Tiger\u2019 Producer Rodrigo Teixeira on James Gray\u2019s Next, \u2018About the U.S. Now,\u2019 Why U.S. Directors Will Shoot in Brazil and How Independent Cinema Has Gone Global<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe new package marks just another way to make Politico journalism available to audiences in different ways, says Jonathan Greenberger, who was named global editor in chief of Politico in March. \u201cIf you want a newsletter, great, we have your newsletters,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you want to go a little deeper in an interview we have got podcasts. 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