U.S. News & World Report

===21st century===
In 2001, the website won a [[National Magazine Awards|National Magazine Award]] for General Excellence Online.<ref name="infoplease">{{cite web|url=http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0881066.html|title=2001 National Magazine Awards|publisher=Info Please|access-date=May 5, 2023|archive-date=February 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216100441/http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0881066.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2007, ''U.S. News & World Report'' published its first list of the nation's best high schools. Its ranking methodology included state test scores and documented the success of poor and minority students on the exams, and schools' performance in [[Advanced Placement|Advanced Placement exams]].

Beginning in June 2008, the magazine reduced its publication frequency in three steps. In June 2008, citing a decline overall in magazine circulation and advertising, ''U.S. News & World Report'' announced that it would become a [[biweekly]] publication, starting in January 2009.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/business/media/11mag.html |title=U.S. News Plans to Publish Biweekly and Expand Consumer Focus |access-date=June 24, 2008 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 11, 2008 |first=Richard |last=Pérez-Peña |archive-date=June 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610053205/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/business/media/11mag.html?_r=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> It hoped advertisers would be attracted to the schedule, which allowed ads to stay on newsstands a week longer. However, five months later the magazine changed its frequency again, becoming monthly.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.san&s=94198&Nid=49092&p=966247 |title=Red Ink: 'U.S. News' Goes Monthly, Hearst and Rodale Cut Staff |access-date=June 11, 2008 |work=MediaPost |date=June 11, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307234522/http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.san&s=94198&Nid=49092&p=966247 |archive-date=March 7, 2012 }}</ref> 

In August 2008, ''U.S. News'' expanded and revamped its online opinion section.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/opinion |title=Political Blogs, Opinions, Commentaries and Forums on Current Issues |work=U.S. News & World Report |publisher=U.S. News & World Report, L.P. |access-date=July 20, 2014 |archive-date=July 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719183033/http://www.usnews.com/opinion |url-status=live }}</ref> The new version of the opinion page included daily new op-ed content as well as the new Thomas Jefferson Street blog.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/opinion |title=Political Blogs, Opinions, Commentaries and Forums on Current Issues |work=U.S. News |access-date=June 30, 2013 |archive-date=June 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130629170826/http://www.usnews.com/opinion |url-status=live }}</ref> An internal memo was sent to the magazine's staff on November 5, 2010, informing them that the "December issue will be our last print monthly sent to subscribers, whose remaining print and digital replica subscriptions will be filled by other publishers."<ref name="poynter">{{cite web |url=http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=194030 |title=December issue will be our last printed monthly sent to subscribers |access-date=November 5, 2010 |work=Poynter Online |date=November 5, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101106000859/http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=194030 |archive-date=November 6, 2010 }}</ref> The memo said that the publication would be moving to a primarily digital format but that special issues such as "the college and grad guides, as well as hospital and personal finance guides" would be printed.

Prior to ending physical publication in 2010, ''U.S. News'' was generally the third-ranked general United States-based news magazine after ''Time'' and ''Newsweek''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-sacks/americas-best-college-sca_b_45064.html |title=America's Best College Scam |work=[[HuffPost|The Huffington Post]] |publisher=[[AOL]]|date=April 5, 2007 |first=Peter |last=Sacks |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110402215319/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-sacks/americas-best-college-sca_b_45064.html |archive-date=April 2, 2011}}</ref> A weekly digital magazine, ''U.S. News Weekly'', introduced in January 2009,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://upstart.bizjournals.com/companies/media/2009/01/23/us-news-launching-digital-newsweekly.html?page=all |title='U.S. News' Launching Digital Newsweekly |access-date=2016-04-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910200336/http://upstart.bizjournals.com/companies/media/2009/01/23/us-news-launching-digital-newsweekly.html?page=all |archive-date=2015-09-10}}</ref> continued to offer subscription content until it stopped publication at the end of April 2015.<ref>''U.S. News Digital Weekly''. 24 April 2015, Vol. 7 Issue 17, p. 15.</ref>