News Review

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News Review
Staff writers Reg Freeson, Peter Dacre
CategoriesNews, Commentary
FrequencyWeekly
First issue1936;86 years ago (1936)
Final issue1950;72 years ago (1950); merged into Illustrated magazine
Company Cosmopolitan Press
Odhams Press
CountryUnited Kingdom
Based in198 High Holborn, London
LanguageEnglish

News Review was a British news magazine, first published by Cosmopolitan Press in 1936. Its publishers, who also launched Cavalcade around the same time, envisaged News Review as a competitor to the U.S. Time magazine. It was later sold to Odhams Press. [1] The headquarters was in London. [2] The magazine ended its run by eventually being amalgamated into Odhams' Illustrated magazine in 1950. [3]

Writers for the News Review included Reg Freeson [4] and a young Peter Dacre. [5] [6]

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