Another benefit to reading a weekly news source versus a daily is that the average quality is higher, since the most important N stories in a week are going to

Another benefit to reading a weekly news source versus a daily is that the average quality is higher, since the most important N stories in a week are going to be a better overall sample than the most important N/7 stories each day integrated over the same week. The Economist also has great round-the-world coverage, which is more than can be said for most news sources.