Nancy Cooper is an American journalist and news executive, and the global editor-in-chief of Newsweek magazine, a position she has held since 2018.
[2][3][4] In 2020 an email Cooper sent to her staff was appeared in a Columbia Journalism Review article, with the subject line "What is a Newsweek story?"
[5] The email outlined four requirements for stories published on original reporting, a unique angle or new information, relevance to readers, and timeliness.
However, the article suggested that Newsweek reporters were not given sufficient time to meet these requirements, as they were expected to write four stories per day with a focus on generating clicks.
[5] In 2022, Cooper commented on in response to Axios article about the ownership issues and lawsuits facing Newsweek, stating that the legal matters did not involve her.