US News & World Report to focus on Web

[Project Grudge]

Source: Breitbart

US News & World Report, long the number three newsmagazine in the United States behind Time and Newsweek, has become the latest US media outlet to abandon print for the Web.

The move to become an Internet-focused publication was announced to US News employees in a memorandum on Tuesday from management of the magazine.

"We're accelerating this transformation in response to our rapid growth online where our audience is now about 7 million uniques a month and growing," US News president Bill Holiber and editor Brian Kelly said in the memo.

"For all of you who have worked so hard to make this transition possible, say good-bye to Web 2.0 and welcome to Journalism 5.0," they added.

Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081105193713.q6msg0kc&show_article=1

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Another one bites the dust.

[curse of greyface]

1. Well my doctors office is going to be pissed.

I'm guess we are down to Highlights and Spin.

[HomerRamone]

2. Highlights and Spin--

sounds like TV news!:rofl:

[mcjackson]

3. totally lame ...

... their print design is really nice. web site is blech.....