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Your encouragement and constant feedback on how to improve our offering have only made our resolve and commitment to these ideals stronger. "It is about the challenging economics of print publishing and distribution."īusiness Standard has always strived hard to provide up-to-date information and commentary on developments that are of interest to you and have wider political and economic implications for the country and the world. "This decision is not about the quality of the brand or the journalism - that is as powerful as ever," Brown wrote. It later merged with the online publication The Daily Beast.
In 2010, after losing money for two years, the Washington Post group sold it off to businessman Sidney Harman for USD 1 in exchange for taking up its financial obligations. The magazine had been struggling for several years and losing circulation in a rapidly digitalising world. The new publication will be targeted for "a highly mobile, opinion-leading audience who want to learn about world events in a sophisticated context," they added.īrown termed the development a "turn of the page for Newsweek" and said exiting print was an extremely difficult moment but it was necessary to embrace the all-digital future to sustain the journalism that gives the magazine its purpose. The new all digital publication will be called Newsweek Global, and will be a single, worldwide edition, they said.
The announcement came from Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown and CEO Baba Shetty on the website of the Newsweek's sister publication The Daily Beast. The newsweekly that was first published in 1933 would bring out its last print edition this December after struggling with declining circulation over the years. Newsweek’s circulation has dropped to about 1.5 million from about 4 million a decade ago, according to the Audit Board of Circulations.Ĭurrently, 39 percent of Americans say they get their news from an online source, according to a Pew Research Center study released last month.Struggling American news magazine Newsweek will end its 80-year-old run in print this year to go all digital, in what was described by its editor-in-chief as a 'turn of the page' for the publication. The magazine will lose as much as $22 million this year. Newsweek merged with IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI)’s Daily Beast website last year. “But as we head for the 80th anniversary of Newsweek next year we must sustain the journalism that gives the magazine its purpose and embrace the all-digital future.”
“Exiting print is an extremely difficult moment for all of us who love the romance of print and the unique weekly camaraderie of those hectic hours before the close on Friday night,” Brown said. The all-digital publication, to be called Newsweek Global, will require subscriptions and will be available on tablet computers and on the Internet, Brown said. 31 issue, Tina Brown, editor-in-chief and founder of The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, said today. The last print edition in the United States will be the Dec. Newsweek, which is printed by Sussex-based Quad/Graphics Inc., will become an online-only publication next year, ending 80 years as a printed magazine.Ī spokeswoman from Quad/Graphics was not available to comment about the impact of Newsweek’s decision on the company.
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