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Newsweek company renames as ‘NewsBeast’
The operator of the erstwhile news magazine Newsweek, which became a solely digital publication last year after 80 years in print, officially became “NewsBeast” on Friday, its parent company said. The corporate rebranding appeared to leave unchanged the separate online brands of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, which merged in…
Ironic hashtag symbolizes end of an era for Newsweek as last print edition hits the stands
Almost 80 years after first going to print, the final Newsweek magazine hit newsstands Monday featuring an ironic hashtag as a symbol of its Twitter-era transition to an all-digital format. The second-largest news weekly magazine in the United States has been grappling with a steep drop in print advertising revenue,…
Newsweek drops print edition
Venerable US magazine Newsweek announced Thursday its last print edition would be December 31, saying it would turn all-digital to cut costs in an increasingly challenging media environment. “We are transitioning Newsweek, not saying goodbye to it,” wrote Tina Brown, editor-in-chief and founder of the online Newsweek Daily Beast Company,…
Newsweek ‘Muslim Rage’ cover sparks wave of scorn
Newsweek’s front page about the deadly protests currently sweeping the Muslim world has sparked a storm of controversy and derision on Twitter as internet users mock the magazine’s headline “Muslim Rage.” “Lost nephew at the airport but can’t yell for him because his name is Jihad. #MuslimRage,” one Twitter user…
Newsweek stirs buzz with ‘first gay president’ cover
WASHINGTON — Newsweek made no apologies Monday for anointing Barack Obama as “the first gay president” on its cover this week, matching its rival Time in terms of online buzz. It depicted Obama with an angelic rainbow halo just days after Obama became the first sitting president of the United…
Palin hints again at presidential aspirations: ‘The field is not yet set’
Former Alaska Gov. and newly minted documentary star Sarah Palin graces the cover of the most recent issue of Newsweek, and argues in the accompanying article that she could be a winning Republican candidate in the 2012 presidential race. “I believe that I can win a national election,” Palin told…
Newsweek owner, audio tycoon Sidney Harman dead
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Audio equipment tycoon Sidney Harman, who bought Newsweek magazine last year and merged it with The Daily Beast website, died on Tuesday, his family announced. He was 92. Harman, who was married to Jane Harman, a former congresswoman from California, died in Washington of complications from acute…
WikiLeaks readying the ‘biggest leak of military intelligence ever’
Whistleblower website WikiLeaks is teaming up with news outlets to release a “massive cache” of classified US military field reports on the conflict in Iraq, Newsweek magazine reported recently. Newsweek quoted Iain Overton, editor of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a London-based journalism nonprofit, as saying the material constitutes the…
Newsweek ‘covers up’ secret zombie invasion headlines
Zombies beat multicolored unicorns any day of the week. At his Twitter account, author/critic Douglas Wolk tweeted on Monday, “Want your day made? Go to newsweek.com and do the Konami code: up up down down left right left right B A enter.” At The New York Times Media Decoder blog,…
Gay rights group demands apology from Newsweek
A gay rights group is demanding an apology from Newsweek magazine for a recent story that the group says suggested gay actors can’t play straight characters — an article that one actor dubbed “horrendously homophobic.” “An actor’s personal life should not be a factor in their believability in a role,”…
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