A Turn of the Page for Newsweek

The Daily Beast ^ | October 18, 2012 | Tina Brown, Baba Shetty

[PittsburghAfterDark]

We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the United States will be our Dec. 31 issue.

Meanwhile, Newsweek will expand its rapidly growing tablet and online presence, as well as its successful global partnerships and events business.

Newsweek Global, as the all-digital publication will be named, will be a single, worldwide edition targeted for a highly mobile, opinion-leading audience who want to learn about world events in a sophisticated context. Newsweek Global will be supported by paid subscription and will be available through e-readers for both tablet and the Web, with select content available on The Daily Beast.

[ConorMacNessa]

Good one, Crosshairs! I for one won’t miss it and I look forward to Time joining it on the ash-heap of History!

[Stosh]

My cockatoo grieves for the change to its birdcage.

[John W]

"News-Week" was launched in 1933 by Thomas J.C. Martyn, a former foreign-news editor for Time. He obtained financial backing from a group of U.S. stockholders "which included Ward Cheney, of the Cheney silk family, John Hay Whitney, and Paul Mellon, son of Andrew W. Mellon". Paul Mellon's ownership in Newsweek apparently represented "the first attempt of the Mellon family to function journalistically on a national scale." The group of original owners invested around $2.5 million. Other large stockholders prior to 1946 were public utilities investment banker Stanley Childs, and Wall Street corporate lawyer Wilton Lloyd-Smith. The first issue of the magazine was dated 17 February 1933. Seven photographs from the week's news were printed on the first issue's cover.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Nope because there will be many more...

Newsweak is just the first.

[abb]

ping

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They’ll be missed (NOT.)

[kitkat]

What? WHAT? You mean I can’t read Newsweak in my doctor’s office anymore? (I’m convinced all dr’s offices have been getting it for free which makes the magazine’s sales appear higher).

[IronJack]

Patience, young Skywalker. Patience ...

[Fiji Hill]

Newsweek was once a great publication. Its writers included Henry Hazlitt, author of Economics in One Lesson (New York: Harper, 1946), a classic that is still in print, and Ralph de Toledano, whose Seeds of Treason (1950), the story of the Alger Hiss spy case, was "a Newsweek book" published for the magazine by Funk & Wagnalls.

[Zakeet]

For some mysterious reason, it's becoming difficult for Newsers like him to find a paying job!

[Arrowhead1952]

(I’m convinced all dr’s offices have been getting it for free which makes the magazine’s sales appear higher.)

I think you are correct. My dentist has pictures of him and his wife with President and Laura Bush in the White House. He has the Newsweak publications in his office with his business address. Same for my former doctor. He hates 0 bummer care and may retire.

[dead]

[Ditter]

Newsweak has been limping away for years. What are we going to read while waiting in the doctors office? Oh NOOOOOO!

[cgbg]

Newsweek Global is the chicken with its head cut off running around the barnyard crashing into stuff.

[SamuraiScot]

RIP Newsweak - thank goodness and good riddance.

Remember their radio ads—which reflected their guerrilla war against the gigantic TIME?

"The one newsweekly that separates fact from opinion!"

They punted that strategy around 1980, mebbe.

[AlphaOneAlpha]

This is nothing more than a death gurgle. Newsweak will die and be no more.......

[Ancesthntr]

Hey, hey, hey, GOODBYE!

[preacher]

[Beaten Valve]

From the comments section:

“Meh... Pay for information? Not likely. Any information out there is pretty much free, so all I’d be paying you for is highlighting important information, and your opinion.

1. Emphasis: I can highlight information for myself. That’s the way I see the net eventually becoming. Providers provide information and context, users provide formatting and emphasis. You determine content, I decide how I view it.

2. Opinion: I don’t really care for it. The only person who represents my opinion is me. I’m tired of news organizations brainwashing people into believing that the news organization fully represents their opinion. That’s the problem with a two-party political system and news in general, no one is fully represented. Americans can solve most of these issues on our own, but we’re forced into these cookie-cutter platforms, a choice between standing still, and progressing to a slippery slope.

So in short, it appears I’m saying, I don’t need you. And I think you’ll find that’s how most people feel.”

[Jim Noble]

Better dead than red.