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Feb 08 2008 12:00am EDT

Duly Quoted: 'Newsweek' Editor Out of Ideas

"It's an incredible frustration that I've got some of the most decent, hard-working, honest, passionate, straight-shooting, non-ideological people who just want to tell the damn truth, and how to get this past this image that we're just middlebrow, you know, a magazine that your grandparents get, or something, that's the challenge. And I just don't know how to do it, so if you've got any ideas, tell me."

-Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, speaking to graduate students at Columbia University's journalism school. Meacham was responding to a student who told him he preferred The Economist to Newsweek because the former is "more courageous.". □

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