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Thursday, June 04, 2009

Stephen Colbert to Guest-Edit Newsweek

Stephen Colbert will guest-edit the redesigned Newsweek magazine for a week this June 8th. The first time Newsweek has ever had a guest editor in its history, Colbert got the job after impressing editor, Jon Meacham, during a lunch. Meacham said Colbert had "an almost encyclopedic feel for anything that came up."

Colbert will contribute an essay, write the editor's letter, dole-out assignments, and choose the pull-out quotes. The letters section will include the unpublished letters to the editor of Newsweek Colbert wrote as a child.

Meacham said this approach is just another way "to both inform and surprise readers."

© C Harris Lynn, 2009

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