Time has two+ covers this week, Businessweek sticks with one

Time
Time subscribers in the Northeast are receiving a Hurricane Sandy cover; the photo was taken by Benjamin Lowy and posted on Instagram, Time Editor Rick Stengel writes in an editor’s letter. Time hired five photographers to capture Sandy shots via Instagram; here’s its gallery of Sandy photos. The magazine’s Sandy coverage will be in front of its paywall, a Time spokesperson tells Poynter in an email.

The rest of the country, Time Editor Richard Stengel writes, will “get our election special with split covers featuring a Venn diagram: one has the case for Romney on top, the other has the case for Obama on top. Hold it each way and a different candidate is on top. It’s up to you.”

Time counts this as two separate covers; I have taken the liberty of animating the cover to avoid the appearance of favoring either candidate.

Bloomberg Businessweek, meanwhile, is making do with a Sandy cover that’s less accommodating of alternate views.

On Twitter, Businessweek Editor Josh Tyrangiel goes there:

Our cover story this week may generate controversy, but only among the stupid.buswk.co/PIUzUl via @bw

— Josh (@Tyrangiel) November 1, 2012