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The Hagfish Strikes Again
John Cook · 10/18/12 01:00PMWell, that's it for Newsweek. Celebu-editor and royal gravedigger Tina Brown announced this morning on the web site of the Daily Beast that the magazine's print edition will not survive the year. That's not all Brown's fault, of course. Newsweek is not the first magazine to abandon print, and it will by no means be the last. Tina Brown didn't kill Newsweek. She just killed its credibility.
Newsweek Pulling Plug on Print, Will Be Digital-Only Starting Next Year
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/18/12 07:41AMWhile the entire world that cares about this stuff had its attention trained on a Daily Telegraph report that The Guardian was in "serious" discussions about ending its print edition (a report the Guardian denies), Newsweek's editor-in-chief Tina Brown was busy penning an announcement that her publication was past the point of discussion and on to the implementation stage.
Newsweek Cover Story or Internet Posting About Drugs? A Quiz
Max Read · 10/08/12 04:00PM13 Powerful Images of Muslim Rage
Max Read · 09/17/12 11:19AM"MUSLIM RAGE," screams Newsweek's new cover story about last week's violent anti-American protests. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the well-known anti-Islam activist, is here to tell "us" (The_West) how to "end it." And it's true, isn't it? All Muslims are constantly raging about everything. So to pay tribute to Ali's article — which describes the protesters as "the mainstream of contemporary Islam" — and the subtle, smart cover that accompanies it, we've collected 13 striking, powerful images of MUSLIM RAGE.
Huff Post, Newsweek Turn to Coat Hangers to Protest GOP Anti-Abortion Plank [UPDATE]
Neetzan Zimmerman · 08/21/12 12:30PMAccording to Newsweek, Barack Obama is the Country's 'First Gay President'
Louis Peitzman · 05/13/12 12:16PMMom Puts Boob in Preschooler's Mouth on Cover of Time
Maureen O'Connor · 05/10/12 11:09AMYour Rape Fantasy Is Boring, Katie Roiphe
Hamilton Nolan · 04/16/12 09:50AMKatie Roiphe, a well-to-do white woman who will not shut up, has a case of mortal ennui which is relieved only by publishing cretinous trolling articles which draw sweeping pseudopsychological conclusions about womankind from a small handful of vacuous anecdotes mixed with pop culture strained through the special Katie Roiphe Psychic Sexxx Fantasyland Filter. The news today is, she is still doing that.
Magazine Founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson Now Publishing Rage Comics
Max Read · 04/05/12 04:46PMIn 1857, in the midst of the greatest political strife a young nation had yet known, a group of prominent intellectuals and activists — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others — gathered together to create a New England literary magazine: The Atlantic. For more than a century, it was a leading voice for progressive causes, from abolition to civil rights, and a platform for some of the country's greatest literary voices. Today, it published a rage comic. "Props on the rage comic, Atlantic!" writes Newsweek.
Newsweek's Creepy Obama Fan Fiction Doesn't Go Far Enough
Max Read · 12/12/11 03:30PMNewsweek, the nation's premiere publisher of fan fiction, has followed up its charmingly hideous "What if Diana Were Alive?" cover story with a brand new exploration of hypotheticals: What will Barack Obama do if he loses, and also, what will he look like? Alas: this one doesn't go far enough. We have some ideas, though!
Chiefs of Staff Are the Hottest New Rich Person Accessory
Adrian Chen · 12/05/11 12:10PMNewsweek Sucks
Hamilton Nolan · 11/18/11 02:45PMFailing NewsBeast: Everyone Except Tina Brown's Fault
Hamilton Nolan · 11/14/11 02:58PMCollege Official Tells Student Paper to Pay Him For Interviews
Hamilton Nolan · 10/31/11 02:15PMNewsBeast Retracts False Quote of Pelosi Slamming Obama Advisers
Jim Newell · 10/03/11 04:14PMHow Deep Is Grouper Founder's Con?
Ryan Tate · 09/28/11 05:51PMThe wheels seem to be coming off Jerry Guo's wagon. Yesterday the internet entrepreneur admitted to misleading people during his time at Newsweek and just after. Today comes word he was fired from an AOL site over dishonesty. And it's not clear how much technology is actually behind his tech startup.