Stephen Colbert will be
Newsweek's guest editor for the June 8 edition, reports the
New York Observer. He will be the first in the news magazine's 76-year history -- although the
practice, begun with Tina Brown and
The New Yorker, has had mixed results. Colbert will help design the cover of the magazine, write an editor's note, add annotations to Jon Meacham's weekly
editor's note and hand out some assignments. He will also tweak columnists' bios. "I was just very impressed with the range of his knowledge and he had an almost encyclopedic feel for anything that
came up," Meacham told the
Observer. "As we think about ways to both inform and surprise readers of the magazine, the notion of having him as a guest editor seemed like a good one."
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