When newspapers go weekly, weeklies go monthly

75-years-old U.S. News & World Report is getting out of the newsmagazine business and going all digital (except of a monthly print edition).

The news comes a week after another struggling US daily newspaper Science Christian Monitor announced its relaunch as a 24/7 news website with a weekly edition.

According to an internal memo reported by the Washington Post, the U.S. News & World Report’s website will be enhanced and the magazine’s team will produce “special reports, daily news updates, blogs, newsletters, rankings, guides and videos.”

And while the magazine will still publish one print edition each month, these will be entirely devoted to consumer guides — such as its annual rankings of colleges and hospitals — and contain no other news.

At the end of 2007, U.S. News’ circulation was just over 2 million, trailing Time, with 3.4 million, and Newsweek, owned by The Washington Post Co., with 3.1 million

U.S. News’ attracts about 7 million unique monthly visitors.

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