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I started reading the Guardian Weekly as an undergraduate student in Australia in the early 1990s. It was recommended to me by a goatie-bearded postgraduate student who was a tutor in political science and who I admired at the time. I remember asking him, in exasperation, how it was that he seemed to know so much about what was happening in the world, and what major opinion shapers were writing in Le Monde, Washington Post and The Guardian. His secret, of course, was the Guardian Weekly. Reading the Guardian Weekly was like being initiated into a secret club. Suddenly I found out that all the most successful students - and the most interesting lecturers - were readers and/or subscribers. I found the Weekly was a great resource for generating ideas and/or keeping in touch with debates about what was going on in the world...In this era of sound bite politics and tabloid journalism, the Guardian Weekly is an antidote for ignorance.
Professor Simon Adams
Dean of Arts & Sciences
University of Notre Dame

I sit on the admissions committees for graduate and medical programs at the University of California, and help select interns, residents, and junior faculty. I am always interested in how much a candidate knows about world affairs and current events, and regard someone with an informed perspective as a superior candidate. Reading the Guardian Weekly help keeps me up to date, and it is heartening to find out that many of our top candidates also read widely, and include the GW in their essential weekly reading list. Douglas F. Nixon, MD., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
University of California

It is not usual for me to make time to reply to the never ending requests for feedback, comments etc but in the case of the Guardian Weekly I must make an exception. The articles are so well written and thought provoking that they make for a really good read. I also use some articles as the starting point for group discussion in the areas of human rights, which I teach at University. My students may agree or disagree passionately but all appreciate the depth of research and frank appraisal of topics so particular to the Guardian Weekly.
Dr Ruth Farrugia

The information that I glean weekly from all the above mentioned sources is hard to replicate from other more readily accessible media in the United States, many of which seem to adopt a far less variegated critical stance towards the interpretation of the flood of data that hits us on a daily basis.
Dr Roger Allen

The Guardian Weekly offers refreshing perspectives on the news that are not always heard in America, perspectives that are frequently more in-depth, comprehensive, incisive, and globally oriented.
Dr John Wall

I enjoy reading the Guardian Weekly more than any other printed source of news. There are several reasons for this. Unlike so many newspapers it does not suffer from sensationalism: the news it provides is sober, invariably well-informed and comprehensive. As seen from the perspective of a person living in the USA, I find that some issues of global importance seem to be filtered out or, equally bad, sanitized in the mainstream American press. I rely on the Guardian Weekly for a balanced view of what is going on in the world, good and bad.
Dr Stuart Swiny

Let me appreciate the work of the editors and authors around The Guardian Weekly. Sitting right in the centre of Europe, I find your newspaper a perfect link to the more western world which I visit only shortly during my occasional traveling. I like your interpretation of current news, your historical perspective, various reviews and analyses.
Professor Jan Jeník

As I see it, many aspects of today's world integrate national, cultural and religious values into a global community. Responsible media needs to reflect this and I find the Guardian Weekly achieves this very successfully. By offering a selection of current articles from around the world, readers are more able to critically form a broad and balanced opinion of both national and international events. In this respect, the Guardian Weekly provides an invaluable service. Also, your letters/correspondence section invites discussion in an international forum, so readers are encouraged to interact at a global level via an informed media. This provides an excellent platform for creative young minds to critically experience and assess international opinion at a more personal rather than institutional level.
Dr Andrew Thompson

I read the Guardian Weekly because I don't have time to read a daily paper but need to stay informed nonetheless. I find the GW provides just the right amount of coverage of the weekly headline news, without the redundancy that ongoing coverage in the dailies often produces. I also find the GW very useful for picking up other stories from around the world that often get missed out in the day-to-day headlines. Finally, as an expat myself I value the global coverage of the GW, and the outlook in background and analysis that goes with it.
Dr Peter Sollich

In my view it offers a breadth of perspective almost totally lacking in news media in Australia. The fact that its contents are drawn from major news sources across Europe and the US gives Australian readers a far wider and differently nuanced coverage than they are able to obtain from Australian media. I recommend it highly to anyone for whom a variety of international understandings of world affairs and culture is important.
Dr Susan Nicholls

My personal opinion, as an Oxford University D.Phil. working in the USA, is that I desperately miss the Guardian, and consider it the greatest newspaper in the world.
Dr Daniel Smith-Christopher

Perhaps what's best about The Guardian Weekly is what's missing from it: sensationalism that always fails to recognize the truly sensational; rhetoric yawning with its own emptiness; a failure to see past tomorrow. I read the Guardian Weekly to know what's happening, but just as importantly why it's happening. In that sense The Guardian Weekly both tells the news and teaches the story behind the news. That's why, as a teacher myself and a life-long student of life, I choose to read The Guardian Weekly.
Dr Patrick West

I read the Guardian for the simple reason that every other major newspaper in this country is owned by commercial operators far more interested in making money than in reporting the news. Their newspapers are dumbed down - they devote large chunks of space to completely unimportant fluff, the stories are written in ways that suggest they think the mental age of their readers is about 12, and, most importantly, the big business interests of the newspapers' owners are quite apparent in what stories are covered, and how. There isn't a single newspaper here that provides consistently intelligent writing that also sets high standards for prose and expression - I find all of that in the Guardian.
Associate Professor Barbara Downes

I am happy to recommend Guardian Weekly to my students for a few obvious reasons. First of all, the breadth and depth coverage of world news contrasts dramatically with the highly selective and parochially driven coverage offered by Australian newspapers and television. Secondly, the GW offers a range of opinion from the UK, the US and France which make it unique in its diversity. Thirdly, the quality of the writing is exemplary.
Dr Bob Reece

My introduction to The Guardian occurred when I was a postgraduate student in Ireland and England. When I returned to the United States thirty years ago to begin my academic career, one of the first things I did was to subscribe to The Guardian Weekly. The quality of writing is always high and the extraordinary range of stories from across the world help me to maintain an informed perspective on global issues. The Guardian Weekly's progressive viewpoint (accompanied by a sophisticated sense of humor) is an essential challenge to contemporary orthodoxies. I always learn a great deal reading the Guardian Weekly and, very simply, it is recreational in the most elevating sense.
Dr William J. Lowe

I lived outside the US for many years and relied on the Guardian Weekly to give me the full spectrum of international news. Now that I am back in the US I value the GW even more, because few publications in this country provide as much depth of coverage and excellent writing. I read each issue cover to cover and savor each article. I often find articles that will be of use to my graduate students in the courses I teach.
Associate Professor Susan Barduhn

I always enjoy reading the Guardian Weekly because it gives me a balanced, nuanced view of current affairs. As a busy doctor and teacher I'm not able to read the magazine immediately. Yet whenever I do read it there's invariably an article that grabs my attention. I pass on my Guardian Weekly to friends and family in Ghana. No matter how old the edition, they tell me that your feature articles are always fascinating and topical.
Prof.E.A. Badoe

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