The Maclean’s 2012 Newsmakers Issue

The Maclean’s Newsmakers Issue is now in print and we’ll be rolling out our coverage online in the days to come. Meantime, check out our interactive cover: click on the newsmaker to find out why he or she made the cut.

And click here to watch Maclean’s editor Kim Honey explain how we settled on our two newsmakers of the year.

Here are the first of our Newsmakers. (We’ll add to this file as we post.)

Crown jewels: Celebrating a remarkable Diamond Jubilee year, our adored Queen is still going strong

Mark Zuckerberg: Visionary or villian? Depends who you ask.

Higgs & Kisses: Science’s big bet paid off when the ’God particle’ was discovered