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“Time’s goal during its heyday was to recap the news of the week and put it in some perspective,” said Ann McDaniel, senior vice president of The Post Co. But it always remained the scrappy second to Time. “It was a little bit forward-leaning and edgy - for better and for worse.”Īt its height, Newsweek had a circulation of more than 3 million and rivaled top newspapers and evening news shows in global influence.
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“It was, for many years, a place that millions of people could go to get intelligent, thoughtful, informed news,” Thomas said. Newsweek gained prominence in the 1960s as the magazine began covering the civil rights movement and the emergence of modern liberalism. Newsweek slowly grew into the nation’s second-leading non-pictorial newsmagazine during an era dominated by mass-circulation, photo-centric publications, such as Life and Look, that were eventually eclipsed by television. Newsweek was founded in 1933, after the creation of its longtime rival, Time. for five decades before being sold in 2010 to the late stereo magnate Sidney Harman, who bought the magazine for $1 and liabilities. Newsweek was owned by The Washington Post Co. “The economic model was just broken, and there wasn’t enough advertising to sustain the enormous staff that Newsweek had to have to be a comprehensive global news organization.” “I don’t think anything could have saved it,” said Evan Thomas, a writer and editor for Newsweek from 1986 to 2010. The magazine will live on digitally, as an adjunct to the online magazine the Daily Beast, with which it merged last year. It will increasingly be the case in the years ahead.Newsweek, the iconic newsweekly that for 80 years helped frame the nation’s major political, economic and social debates, will end its print publication at the end of the year - the latest and perhaps most prominent casualty of the collapse in print advertising revenue. "This was not the case just two years ago. "In our judgment, we have reached a tipping point at which we can most efficiently and effectively reach our readers in all-digital format," Brown wrote. were expected to top 70 million this year, up from 13 million two years ago. In announcing the change, Brown wrote that Newsweek content has helped drive a 70 percent increase in unique visitors to The Daily Beast website over the past year. Back in July, IAC head Barry Diller hinted during an earnings call that the publication would become digital only. Newsweek's move to drop its print edition wasn't entirely unexpected. The magazine's print circulation has tumbled 51 percent since 2007, industry website reported, citing the publisher’s statement filed with the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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We wish to reassure you the transition is well planned, extremely mindful of the unavoidable impact on our staff and respectful of our readers, advertisers and business partners." In a note to staff, Brown and Daily Beast CEO Baba Shetty wrote: "We realize news of a big change like this will be unsettling. She said the move "is an extremely difficult moment for all of us who love the romance of print." Some Newsweek content will be available on the The Daily Beast, which is also owned by the magazine’s parent company IAC.īrown wrote that "regrettably" there would be layoffs as a result of streamlining editorial and business operations in the U.S. 31 issue and plans to support Newsweek Global on tablets, e-readers and the web with paid subscriptions. "We remain committed to Newsweek and to the journalism that it represents." "We are transitioning Newsweek, not saying goodbye to it," Newsweek and Daily Beast editor-in-chief Tina Brown wrote Thursday on The Daily Beast. The magazine will keep publishing online as a single, worldwide edition called Newsweek Global, with the shift to an all-digital format after 80 years in print set to start in early 2013. Newsweek is going out of print and all-in on digital.
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