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STORY: Karl Lagerfeld Calls Tina Brown’s ‘Newsweek’ a ‘S-ty Little Paper’ “ 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,” she added.īrown said The Daily Beast has 15-plus unique visitors per month, up 70 percent in the past year, attributing the extra traffic and eyeballs to Newsweek‘s “strong original journalism.” But he also said that IAC’s investment next year will be “considerably less” than it is this year.įollowing 80 years as a print title, Newsweek in its digital makeover will be called Newsweek Global, “a single, worldwide edition targeted for a highly mobile, opinion-leading audience who want to learn about world events in sophisticated context,” said Brown in her memo. Memorable Newsweek covers in recent years have included a December 2003 edition with a bedraggled, long-bearded Saddam Hussein pictured beneath the headline: 'We got him.STORY: Newsweek’s Tina Brown Addresses ‘Scaremongering’ in Internal Staff Memoĭiller suggested that the time could be near for Newsweek‘s transition to an online publication, saying that the magazine - which merged with The Daily Beast in 2010 - is a stronger brand than it was when IAC acquired it that year and crediting Brown and her staff for the improvements. The Washington Post sold Newsweek to California billionaire Sidney Harman for $1 in 2010, ahead of a deal with Internet conglomerate IAC to merge the magazine with the news and opinion website The Daily Beast.

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By late February, you will see the full evolution of the spanking-new, all-digital Newsweek Global, currently in development.' 'The next (issue), in the first week of January, will be on your iPad or Kindle or phone.

'The issue in your hand is the last edition of Newsweek in print,' wrote Brown in an introduction titled: 'A new chapter: Sometimes, change isn't just good, it's necessary.'

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Its first issue, on Feb 17, 1933, featured seven photos from that week's news printed on the front, including Adolf Hitler snapped in Berlin as he declared: 'The German nation must be built up from the ground anew.'įor its final cover, dated Dec 31, editor Tina Brown used an aerial archive shot of the magazine's New York headquarters as the backdrop for her message - #LASTPRINTISSUE - the word 'print' emblazoned in red ink. Karen Bleier / Agence France-Presseĭuring a fierce decades-long rivalry with fellow US coffee-table staple Time magazine, Newsweek pushed the envelope with bold and often controversial covers. Newsweek ends 80-year run as a weekly news magazine with a final print edition published this week and dated Dec 31, 2012. The final print edition of Newsweek is seen in Washington.

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The second-largest weekly news magazine in the United States has been grappling with a steep drop in print advertising revenue, steadily declining circulation and the migration of readers to free news online. Almost 80 years after first going to print, the final Newsweek magazine hit newsstands on Monday featuring an ironic hashtag as a symbol of its Twitter-era transition to an all-digital format.

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