Newsweek Will End Print Magazine in 2013

[Midwestern Democrat]

46. It was already a dead magazine when she took over.

It was officially dead when The Washington Post Co pulled the plug on it - although "Newsweek" as we knew it ended a couple of years earlier - they could no longer afford (due to their readership being decimated by the Internet) to be a traditional newsweekly and tried and failed to reposition the magazine to compete in the same (and much less costly) category as "The Economist" and "The New Republic". What's called "Newsweek" now really isn't "Newsweek" - it's a much lesser magazine that has a famous brand name on its cover- nothing more.