• June 3, 2009

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."