RIP Newsweek in print

[TigerVols]

...pulling the plug Dec. 31.

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-newsweek-to-end-print-edition-20121017,0,4478257.story

The digital-only publication, supported by paid subscriptions and dubbed Newsweek Global, will be aimed at a "highly mobile, opinion-leading audience who want to learn about world events in a sophisticated context," [Tina] Brown said.

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[cranberry]

There is a God!!!

 

[deskslave]

Now the Flanderseses will read nothing, just like the Simpsons.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Heaven needed a magazine about itself.

 

[JayFarrar]

The office has a subscription.

Someone there takes it into the ****ter to read and there it stays, in the communal reading pile, until the cleaning people throw it away.

I haven't looked at an issue in years.

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

Now the Flanderseses will read nothing, just like the Simpsons.

Very good.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I guess heaven needed a few trees to liive

 

[EStreetJoe]

I was all set to post this on the Journalism Only board with a subject line of "Newsweek cuts back to zero days a week in print"

 

[Joe Williams]

Another slow suicide.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Good riddance...

 

[old_tony]

Content, not platform, killed the print edition of Newsweek. It will eventually kill the online version, too.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Content, not platform, killed the print edition of Newsweek. It will eventually kill the online version, too.

It'll be interesting. Slate seems to do OK with opinion-only, though it's backed by the Washington Post, right? Wonder how much revenue/profit it generates on its own. Like they say, opinions are like assholes ...

 

[jackfinarelli]

Twenty years ago, Newsweek was an important and interesting publication.

Over the last decade it morphed into something about as interesting as My Weekly Reader. Do they still publish that?

 

[dooley_womack1]

Content, not platform, killed the print edition of Newsweek. It will eventually kill the online version, too.

It'll be interesting. Slate seems to do OK with opinion-only, though it's backed by the Washington Post, right? Wonder how much revenue/profit it generates on its own. Like they say, opinions are like assholes ...

I think O_T was working the "commie rag" angle.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Newsweek did one thing great -- the page at the front of the magazine rounding up the best quotes and cartoons of the week. I still would look for that whenever I was out, but it was disappointing. In the late '80s/early '90s when they started it, though, it was a riot and all fresh material to most of us.

 

[slc10]

Newsweek was its own worst enemy.

 

[KJIM]

Copies used to be given to every Peace Corps volunteer. They stopped that about midway through my service and I think I was one of the few who didn't care.

Apparently many former PCVs had fond memories of getting them and having the opportunity to read English, but by 2007, I, like many other PCVs, had Internet in my house. Since we got them in bunches and weeks/months late, it wasn't like there was any news involved.

But it really was the end of an era for Peace Corps ... and didn't say much about the future of Newsweek.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Leaving aside the incontrovertible fact that Newsweek is a commie rag (except the God weeks) ... what news magazine is surviving? The daily newspaper has a tough enough time. Warmed-over, week-old "analysis" would seem totally useless these days.

Haven't seen Time or the rest but I can't imagine a printed copy of a newsmagazine having any kind of chance these days.

 

[TigerVols]

Newsweek did one thing great -- the page at the front of the magazine rounding up the best quotes and cartoons of the week. I still would look for that whenever I was out, but it was disappointing. In the late '80s/early '90s when they started it, though, it was a riot and all fresh material to most of us.

Some journalism grad student somewhere could write an interesting research paper on how that page served to blaze the path for Internet news gathering and particularly into packaging.

 

[Brian]

Leaving aside the incontrovertible fact that Newsweek is a commie rag (except the God weeks) ... what news magazine is surviving? The daily newspaper has a tough enough time. Warmed-over, week-old "analysis" would seem totally useless these days.

Haven't seen Time or the rest but I can't imagine a printed copy of a newsmagazine having any kind of chance these days.

Does The Economist count? To me, it's still a great read.