Article

2012-07-29 Home Front: Culture Wars

Tina takes the red pill: Newsweak to go all digital

As a Rantburger once quipped, Newsweak and the Daily Beast found a way to lash the lifeboats together. Now to resolve the problem of one sinking the other.
Can I do anything to make the hole in either boat bigger?
The company operating the US magazine Newsweek indicated Wednesday the venerable publication is likely to go digital to stem its losses and could undergo other changes by next year.

Barry Diller, chairman and chief executive at the conglomerate IAC, said his firm is looking at options now that its partner in the Newsweek/Daily Beast operation has pulled out.

Diller told a conference call that the Harman family, which had been part of the news operation, had pulled out following the death of magnate Sidney Harman.

He said one of the options is a transition to a digital magazine, but did not offer any specific plans.

Posted by badanov 2012-07-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 I read the headline as "Newspeak to Go All Digital".

Posted by Korora 2012-07-29 13:28|| 2012-07-29 13:28|| Front Page Top

#2 in the future, they'll downsize to email editions, then tweets for pay, which will only go as well as we all know it will. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of low-achievement uber-snotty Dem operatives

Posted by Frank G 2012-07-29 15:06|| 2012-07-29 15:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh no. What am I gonna read in the doctor's office?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2012-07-29 18:00|| 2012-07-29 18:00|| Front Page Top

#4 They don't have National Geographic anymore?

Posted by Fred 2012-07-29 18:34|| 2012-07-29 18:34|| Front Page Top

#5 ...not since their big issues on MMGW and Peak Oil.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-07-29 19:20|| 2012-07-29 19:20|| Front Page Top

#6 "Now to resolve the problem of one sinking the other."

And this is a problem because....?

Posted by Barbara 2012-07-29 19:47|| 2012-07-29 19:47|| Front Page Top

07:34 trailing wife
07:31 Procopius2k
07:30 NN2N1
07:22 NN2N1
07:18 trailing wife
07:14 Richard Aubrey
07:10 NN2N1
07:09 Besoeker
07:03 NN2N1
06:58 NN2N1
06:58 Besoeker
05:28 Whiskey Mike
05:23 Whiskey Mike
05:21 Whiskey Mike
05:18 Whiskey Mike
05:15 Whiskey Mike
05:13 Whiskey Mike
05:08 Whiskey Mike
05:05 Whiskey Mike
05:03 Whiskey Mike
03:23 Besoeker
02:05 Grom the Affective
02:04 Grom the Affective
01:26 49 Pan