Newsweek has sparked conversation and controversy with a string of covers designed to boost sales. A selection appears below. BuzzFeed’s also got a great gallery of classic Newsweek covers.
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- Tina Brown’s first print edition featured Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the cover.
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- One of the most controversial recent Newsweek covers was this one of Princess Diana, as she might have appeared at age 50.
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- Tina Brown said of this photo, “Michele Bachmann’s intensity is galvanizing voters in Iowa right now and Newsweek’s cover captures that.”
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- Andrew Sullivan wrote the cover story about “the first gay president.”
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- Niall Ferguson’s cover story — about why Obama shouldn’t be re-elected — was contested for days.
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- Newsweek had previously called George H.W. Bush a wimp on its cover.
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- This cover was criticized for its hysterical tone.
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- Brown frequently featured women and issues important to them on her covers; but Virginia Heffernan wrote the story this cover promoted “illuminates nothing; it humiliates its writer.”
