Guardian - Weekly Edition

Since the daily Guardian is printed in the UK, I don't have easy access to it. Therefore, I read some Guardian articles online. To really get a feel for the paper, international readers can subscribe to the Guardian Weekly. The publishers compile numerous articles from the week and print them in the Weekly. Printed in Britain, Canada, and Australia, the tabloid-sized paper arrives quickly and freshly relevant. Its relevance is bolstered by the fact that so many of the issues and angles covered in the articles aren't often found in the domestic media. US news and international affairs are covered very well.

I learn more about my own country from the Guardian Weekly than I do from CNN, USA Today, and Fox News combined. You'll be glad that you subscribed.


An English language weekly international news analysis   April 19, 2005
isala (Fairbanks, Alaska,, US)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful

The Guardian Weekly is a joint project between French Le Monde, US Washington Post, and British The Guardian/The Observer. These newspapers are directed towards the educated middle-class. There is a strong tendency towards analysis, sometimes quite opinionated. That said, I do like The Guardian - when I lived in the UK it was about the only newspaper that was readable. The other main newspapers either belonged to Rupert Murdoch (Times, Sun) or were dry as tinder (Independent, Telegraph). The Guardian write in an educated readable way, and depsite it is a bit left-leaning it is well balanced and concerned with real news, not gossip and sensationalism. It has a strong stance on global issues, and therefore it was obvious that it should be involved in a project like this.


Interesting Worldview and High Quality of Writing   March 21, 2005
Peter Kenney (Birmingham, Alabama, USA)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful

The GUARDIAN WEEKLY contains a compilation of some of the best coverage taken from the previous week's daily editions of The GUARDIAN, The OBSERVER, LE MONDE and the WASHINGTON POST. The publication's format remains basically the same as when I first read it as The MANCHESTER GUARDIAN WEEKLY in 1956.

A recent issue contained news articles on a variety of topics from Syria's possible troop withdrawal from Lebanon to an account of a football game between Manchester United and Crystal Palace. The edition also included many news capsules from around the world as well as much comment and analysis on diverse subjects. Two pages were devoted to book reviews.

The quality of writing in the GUARDIAN WEEKLY is consistently high. The bias seems to be slightly to the left. I recommend it mostly because of its interesting worldview and the excellence of its reporting.


World News, Entertaining Articles, Valuable Information Source   December 9, 2008
EleganzShopper (Santa Cruz, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This weekly newspaper has articles not written any where else. It has world news that is also very interesting. It also does cover the main corporate news stories as well. It is from London, England. It does not have that much news about Asia; but of course the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) can provide news for Asia which I also recommend. The Guardian Weekly also has introduced me to new Artists from Music to the Print and other mediums and Theater and Movie reviews. It is delivered with the USPS (print mail.) The online website for the guardian weekly does not have all the articles that the weekly print edition does. They offer a free month (trial) and one can pay quarterly or all at once for various periods of time. I have subscribed to it for years along with the Financial Times (London); both of which cover different news and interesting articles not seen in the North American corporate newspapers or others abroad. They may still offer Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris, France) in English which I subscribe to off and on and it comes with some of the Washington Post Newspaper articles too. I highly recommend these newspapers and the Guardian Weekly especially. One usually has to pay for services and the news is no different if one wants quality writing, articles, reviews, information; the news.


The best news!   December 2, 2006
Georgia Lee (California)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I wish every intelligent person in the US would read this newspaper. We devour it, savor it. It gives us news we never hear about in American newspapers. It probably gives fits to conservative right-wingers--all the more reason to read it.