'Five ways to fix Newsweek'

[Dick Whitman]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40613.html

“No matter how well thought-out it is, opinion and analysis is valued less because you can get it for free,” said Michael Shapiro, a longtime magazine journalist and professor at Columbia University’s Journalism School. “Not that it doesn’t matter. It matters a lot. But what people will pay for is something they didn’t already know.”

The answer, these people say, is the kind of original enterprise reporting found in The New Yorker, New York Times and Washington Post.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Newsweak is dead, d-e-a-d dead.

 

[HanSenSE]

If it would just become a conservative publication. That would save it.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

If it would just become a conservative publication. That would save it.

Conservatives can listen to the radio.

Now, reading . . .

 

[DanOregon]

What Newsweek needed more of was easily digestible lists of things they needed to do to fix themselves.