Newsweek and Tydzien enter the news magazine market this autumn

This autumn two new weekly news magazines will join competition with sector stalwarts Polityka and Wprost. German publisher Axel Springer will enter the market with a Polish version of Newsweek, while German company Bauer, known thus far in Poland for TV guides, will introduce Tydzien. Former head of Rzeczpospolita and Dziennik Polski Piotr Aleksandrowicz has been appointed Tydzien's editor-in-chief. "Market research proves there is room for a third big weekly political magazine," observed Tomasz Wroblewski, editor of Polish Newsweek. Price, circulation, and date of first publication of the spin-off of the American magazine have not yet been disclosed. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 32) P.W.