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Nancy Cooper is an American journalist and news executive serving as the global editor-in-chief of Newsweek magazine. [1]

She previously served as deputy executive producer on The Takeaway , a public radio show produced by WNYC, and as an editor at MSNBC.com. She joined International Business Times in 2014 and moved to Newsweek in 2018 as editor. [2] [3] [4]

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An email Cooper sent to her staff was featured in a Columbia Journalism Review article, with the subject line "What is a Newsweek story?" [5] The email contained four requirements for any story published on Newsweek.com. One, it must contain original reporting. Two, it must provide a unique angle or new information. Three, the reader must care about it. And four, the news must be news. CJR said, based on interviews with Newsweek reporters, they were not given enough time to complete these requirements, given that Cooper mandates that they write four stories per day, with a clear emphasis on getting clicks.

In a response, Cooper disagreed with the general conclusions of the article.

In a 2022 Axios article in response to Newsweek's ownership issues and associated lawsuits, Cooper said, "The lawsuit has nothing to do with me. That's the technical truth and the emotional truth too ... What the guys fight out on Mount Olympus — not my problem." The lawsuit is the latest in a series of ethics issues that have plagued the company for years, including: Journalists were fired for their attempt to cover investigations into the company in 2018, prompting a series of public resignations; Newsweek's parent company was caught buying fraudulent traffic to boost ad sales that same year; It was reported that the outlet incentivized reporters to write clickbait stories for traffic gains. [6]

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References

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  2. Tovrov, Daniel (October 23, 2019). "Dropshipping journalism". Columbia Journalism Review.
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  4. Silverman, Craig (February 5, 2018). "Newsweek Fired Its Top Two Editors And Two Senior Reporters After They Published Stories About Its Parent Company". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  5. Tovrov, Daniel (October 23, 2019). "Dropshipping Journalism". CJR. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  6. Fischer, Sara (July 16, 2022). "Newsweek execs speak out amid legal drama". Axios.