Make a smart call on the cover, and it stayed on newsstands and coffee tables for an entire week for readers to admire and discuss.
#NEWSWEEK FINAL PRINT ISSUE TV#
In my era, as competition from more instant news on cable TV and the Web became ever more intense, it was also the one area where our slowpoke frequency could work in our favor. The cover is the calling card of any magazine, but it was particularly true for newsmagazines, since we put out a new issue every week and the range of subjects we had to choose from was so broad. Besides the amazingly talented colleagues I worked with there, I miss picking the cover. We need some good news.When people ask me if there’s anything I miss about my old job at Newsweek, it’s an easy answer. The news business is undergoing a gut-wrenching transformation. We will all be rooting for her - and for Rupert Murdoch and Mark Thompson. Journalists everywhere will hope that the curve isn't so tight that the train jumps the tracks. She says at Newsweek she is embracing a digital medium, "that one day all our competitors will have to embrace with the same fervour. Tina Brown insists, "Sometimes, change isn't just good,it's necessary." I look forward to reporting developments there. This year we have seen the New Orleans Times Picayune stop daily publication, contenting itself with three issues a week.Īt the New York Times, still with an astonishing 1000-plus journalists on the payroll, ex-BBC chief Mark Thompson is settling in, hopefully with Savile-gate behind him, and concentrating on securing a digital future for the Old Grey Lady. The American newspaper business has been in the doldrums for years - the Washington Post's fire sale of Newsweek itself was clear evidence of that. Let's hope Rupert still has some shots in his locker, driving forward his new print business. Murdoch is now reportedly eyeing the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, with bankruptcy behind them. The Daily was to be the first iPad newspaper but artificially restricting its circulation in this way helped kill that dream. Now she hails the magazine's digital rebirth, to be seen in all its glory in February, Then, she says, "a magazine that will soon turn 80 will be a vigorous young publication all over again."īrown has made a success of the Daily Beast, but in an environment where Rupert Murdoch has just folded his Daily tent, she will have to produce something extra out of the hat to make the new Newsweek work. It's a missed call by Tina Brown and her team.īrown writes of how in 2010, 92-year-old audio tycoon Sidney Harman bought Newsweek from the Washjngton Post for one dollar in what she called "a quixotic bid to save a legendary magazine." Disappointingly - though Hitler's Nazis are on page one of that first issue in 1933 - there are few historic Page Ones. This final print issue gives us some Newsweek Page Ones of the past, featuring personalities such as Bette Middler and Steve Martin. Round-the-clock TV news, the internet, and the broad reach of the modern big dailies have all but removed the reason for the old-fashioned news weeklies. Others plugged the gap and in doing so created therir own news agenda. News magazines were very much an American invention of the 1930s when geography meant that the metropolitan dailies were unable to give their readers the bigger picture.
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