weekly current affairs magazine, will publish its final print edition on December 31 and move to an all-digital format early next year, the latest example of how print media have had to adapt to changing reading habits.Magazines and newspapers have struggled as readers have gone online or to their tablets and e-readers to get their news."We are transitioning Newsweek, not saying goodbye to it," two top executives of the magazine's parent company said on Thursday.The all-digital Newsweek will be called Newsweek Global and will be a single, worldwide edition, Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Newsweek Daily Beast Co, and Baba Shetty, chief executive, wrote in a post on the Daily Beast website.The decision to stop printing the 80-year-old magazine is "about the challenging economics of print publishing and distribution," they said.The transition to all-digital will entail job cuts, they said, but did not specify how many.Daily Beast is an online news and culture site launched in 2008 by Brown, a former editors of the magazines The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Talk. These magazines have been my childhood they are what hooked me to popular reading.NEW YORK: Newsweek, the venerable U.S. I will cherish the outcasts, the IEEE and the Chem Club! newsletters, but remember the glory of Reader's Digest. There is only one direction to continue to proceed down, but until Farenheit 451 comes around, I will gladly hoard my old Time, my old National Geographic, the Harper and the New Yorker, the Scientific American to the Popular Science. And while I have been slightly dismayed by some of the sensationalism that is in it, I am so down with the idea of print journalism, that people can publish ideas for a nation to read. I am a Time loyalist by accident, not by choice, as an airline rewards program would only allow me to renew Time subscriptions. or, you know, the already passed Newsweek.
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And although I thoroughly embrace the free flow of information that the internet has brought to the world, I am very sad to see the passing of Newsweek! toilet reading (heh), books and magazines have always been a part of my life. I've always been a big reader From being a young'un crawled up under the bed to some light. This last Feature was interesting because I saw a photo I had never seen before, a picture of some of the press reacting to the attacks aboard Air Force One.Īnd there is a "Hats Off" dedication to the staff of Newsweek and The Daily Beast on page 78.Īnd the final page is 12 facts about Newsweek and a vertical column for all of Newsweek's' 8 Logos through the years.ġ0 cents was the cost of Newsweek when it was debuted in 1933 The features of this last print issue were as follows:Īfter decades, correspondence recalls perils of war. Now it may have been from a Toyota Add (pulling the Endeavour shuttle)but the words still inspired me. Those were the first words I read when I opened it.
The thick of the magazine is mostly a reflection, a look back in time. I read this magazine simply because it was the end, a finale to almost 80 years in print. Or already died since this review is long after the fact. Now Newsweek may not be gone forever, only the physical paper part of it is dying. It is always sad when something comes to an end.
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