Politico wants to power its way into your weekend news diet.
The political-news behemoth, part of Axel Springer, is relaunching its longform journalism efforts this weekend with a new crack at a weekly “magazine,” 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.
“There is a wide world of people who may read the Wall Street Journal’s ‘Weekend’ 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,” says Alex Burns, senior executive editor of North American for Politico, during a recent interview. “There are audiences who want deeply reported, richly written enterprise journalism.”
The 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’s next governor. Alice Ollstein and Megan Messerly offer the untold story of why the Trump Administration reversed itself on HIV prevention. Ian Ward details a plan by the “New Right” 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.
