Aram Bakshian Jr. writes for The National Interest about Economist magazine and how it has become a must read for business people and politicians across the globe.
“The American journalist who has come closest to pinning down the Economist’s winning formula is Michael Hirschorn, in a perceptive essay in the July/August 2009 issue of the Atlantic. He suggests that the secret of the Economist’s success
is not its brilliance, or its hauteur, or its typeface. The writing in Time and Newsweek may be every bit as smart, as assured, as the writing in The Economist. But neither one feels like the only magazine you need to read. You may like the new Time and Newsweek. But you must—or at least, brilliant marketing has convinced you that you must—subscribe to The Economist.
“This may explain how an idiosyncratic publication — produced by an allegedly pimply writing staff of about seventy-five from a cramped space in London’s St. James’s quarter — has proved to be David to rival American Goliaths such as Time and Newsweek.”
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