The Newsweek Layoffs Are Coming, and This Could Get Ugly
Tina Brown announced the names of three editors who will top the masthead of the Newsweek-Daily Beast company after it replaces Newsweek. Now layoffs are imminent.
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You're pretty much resigned to reading Sports Illustrated or Reader's Digest the next time you go to the dentist's office now because Newsweek is no more. In a questionable move, Tina Brown made the magazine's final cover feature an old picture of the Newsweek building and a hashtag.
Tina Brown announced the names of three editors who will top the masthead of the Newsweek-Daily Beast company after it replaces Newsweek. Now layoffs are imminent.
We're all supposed to hate Tina Brown. We get it. She's the queen of shock covers, she talks on the Amtrak quiet car, and completely sunk one of the most iconic magazines she was paid a lot to fix. So when we sat down with New York's Q&A with the Queen of Chaos last night we were prepared to hate but ....
Donald Trump officiated the week's biggest eye-rolling contest on Wednesday, when he made his "very big announcement" about President Obama, a ploy for attention that inspired The Daily Beast slash Newsweek to launch a ploy of their own: a Donald Trump boycott.
IAC Chairman Barry Diller says downsizing is inevitable after Newsweek ceases publishing its print edition but the company will try to be as "spare" as possible when they cut staff.
In a momentous (though not totally unforeseen) development, Newsweek editor Tina Brown announced this morning that the magazine will move to an all-digital format and shutter the print edition just shy of its 80th birthday.
Lots of people hated Niall Ferguson's "Hit the Road Barack" cover story for the August 27 Newsweek, but we learned on Friday it also sold a bundle, so we're getting ready for more front-page trolling from the weekly.
The mystifying satchel of muscles that is Jose Canseco (or his ghostwriter or team of comedy writers?) has taken to his Vice column to defend Lance Armstrong, which, well, we're sure Armstrong appreciates.
The outrageous thing about Buzz Bissinger's Newsweek cover story isn't that he's defending Lance Armstrong against the doping allegations against him, but that, in his defense of Armstrong, he's not necessarily even arguing for the athlete's innocence.
Paul Krugman is pretty much done picking on Niall Ferguson for his widely-criticized takedown of President Obama and is moving on to Ferguson's publisher Newsweek.
If Niall Ferguson wants to persist in claiming his hotly contested essay is intellectually honest, then the only conclusion is that his editors at Newsweek didn't care enough to contradict him.
Newsweek editor and provocateur Tina Brown must be thrilled that Niall Ferguson's "Hit the Road, Barack" cover is the talk of the morning, but, actually, it's not because the essay hit on some universal truth or was an exquisite piece of journalism—it's because everyone is cutting the piece off at the knees.
Newsweek has been making a name for itself with a string of newly salacious cover images, but not all the provocative ideas end up in print, as editor Tina Brown explained in a video on Newsweek's Tumblr.
Cartoonist Lisa Benson isn't a fan of Tina Brown's latest cover.
We had fun thinking about what Tina Brown would come up with for her big cover story on Barack Obama's gay marriage endorsement earlier this week, and now we know what she's actually come with. She's calling Obama the first gay president.
The New(ly trendy) Republic made a rather fun series of images (not a slideshow, much to some people's chagrin) pondering just how Tina Brown, whose scandalous Newsweek covers have become something of a media in-joke, would represent President Obama's same sex marriage endorsement.
The freakout over a Tina Brown Newsweek cover story is basically becoming a cliché at this point, but the addition of Slate's contrarian-at-large Katie Roiphe made this week's troll-bait all but irresistible.
Editor-in-chief Tina Brown has resurrected the magazine world's time-tested way of boosting newsstand sales: the Jesus cover. But to be fair, she's given the Lord Savior a modern makeover.
Karl Lagerfeld roasts Tina Brown, Jon Hamm is quite the photographer, and DSK was allegedly not a model orgy guest.
It sure is nice to see Don, Roger, Joan, and Peggy together again and the retro ads sure are fun, but we still can't shake the feeling that Tina Brown's Mad Men-inspired Newsweek issue feels more like an advertisement or memorabilia than it does an issue of a magazine.
The New York Times' Elizabeth Jensen has as a short item about Tina Brown's retooled Newsweek featuring more FCC-banned words than it used to. This is not the first time that the profanity police have called on Brown.
Newsbeast Editor Tina Brown rightly tweeted this morning that "Andrew Sullivan has lit up the web," with his Newsweek cover story, "Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb?" But an ad hominem cover line is better for creating heat than light.
Newsweek/The Daily Beast editor Tina Brown has hired David Frum, the pundit who exiled himself from conservatism, to join her magazine-web mini-empire.
In the latest update to the Newsweek Daily Beast saga, WWD's John Koblin doesn't have a lot of encouraging things to say about the state of affairs under editor Tina Brown.
Newsweek Daily Beast executive editor Edward Felsenthal became the third high-level hire to leave the company in the span of a few hours, a grim sign that chaos still rules at the magazine-web hybrid.
Former First Daughter doesn't have much private company experience
But he still loves his 1957 Triumph TR3, almost as much as he loves wife Nan
The rest of the conservative movement, it seems, is not
Starting on July 19th, the news weekly will no longer have a stand alone site
Tina's Wednesday morning appearance on Morning Joe was kind of a disaster
If the response on Facebook is any indication, Newsweek is losing subscribers
Critics can't decide whether the Lady Di tribute is too indulgent or too horrifying
The former Sunday Times editor shares his taste in automobiles
The Newsweek/Daily Beast editor just turns it off
Adweek levels some familiar charges against the star editor of Newsweek
Her best quotes in a New York Times magazine profile
The Harman family faces continuing losses at the Newsweek Daily Beast Co.
Brown says she'd never name a website after herself
But maybe expectations were just too high?
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