Newsweek to end print publication in December after nearly 80 years, go all digital

[Baitball Blogger]

Perhaps now people will stop snarking about their provocative covers.

Newsweek announced this morning that it will close down publication of of its print magazine on Dec. 31, creating a new subscription-fueled online presence while focusing on its tablet and digital platforms.

The new digital publication, Newsweek Global, will be funded by subscriptions for tablet and the website, with select content made available on The Daily Beast. "In our judgment, we have reached a tipping point at which we can most efficiently and effectively reach our readers in all-digital format," read today's announcement, signed by editor Tina Brown and CEO Baba Shetty. "This was not the case just two years ago. It will increasingly be the case in the years ahead."

Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker magazines, has taken hits in the past for attention-getting covers, including one focused last month on "Muslim rage," and another featuring Princess Diana, photoshopped into a picture with Kate Middleton and aged to appear as she might look if she were alive today.


http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/media/content/newsweek-end-print-publication-december-after-nearly-80-years-go-all-digital

[longship]

1. Hopefully all articles to be published at /dev/null

[demosincebirth]

2. I guess that piece about Obama, they allowed to print was the last nail. At least for me it was.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. This is really sad, all around.

I hope, at some point, there's a Renaissance of some sort for print media.

[themaguffin]

3. They've been hurting some time, most top writers left & i dumped subscription at that point, then

they sold the magazine and it really went down hill.

[femmocrat]

5. They lost me when they started attacking teachers. n/t