According to The NY Times, US News is switching print formats from biweekly to monthly. Just under a year ago, US News switched from weekly to biweekly, and "conceded then that the magazine had ceased to be a newsweekly competing directly with Time and Newsweek."
No doubt the company was admitting then to its now-obvious shift in focus from news reporting to consumer information reporting. The recent rankings drama aside, US News seems to be trying to establish itself as the master printer-of-lists.
Which makes me wonder: if US News can't find a viable format for its controversial school rankings brand (and its other, less notable, information services), is it headed nowhere good fast?
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