'Newsweek' issues magazine

'Newsweek' issues magazine

JAKARTA (JP): Newsweek and Virtual Communications will publish Virtual City, the first mass-market, service-oriented lifestyle magazine, which will serve as a consumer's guide to the online community.

Newsweek's president and editor in chief, Richard M. Smith, said in a statement made available yesterday that Virtual City will be developed as a quarterly magazine and will be distributed in the United States on newsstands and through computer stores in September.

Selected stories from the magazine will be published as an editorial "Focus" section in Newsweek's "Business Plus" demographic edition, he said.(riz)