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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,…

Author Erica Jong rips Arianna Huffington for not paying writers

Novelist says what she thinks of media chiefs Erica Jong, author of the best-selling 1973 novel Fear of Flying (and many books since), has often courted controversy by saying in public just what she thinks. Now 70, she is still happy to speak out, as a US-based website called The…