On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > After 82 years, the number 2 newsweekly will shut down its dead tree edition > as of the end of the year--it will remain as a tablet edition called > Newsweek Global and articles from that will be crossposted on sister web > site the Daily Beast: > > http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/newsweek-ends-print-edition-after-80-years-61161 > > Which now begs the question of how long Time and U.S. News (and for that > matter, The Economist, which has picked up a bigger North American audience > in recent years for its more serious approach) will continue to put out > print editions.
US News went from weekly to biweekly to monthly in print and ceased the print edition altogether at the end of 2010. They still print special editions like college rankings and hospital rankings. The last time I saw Time Magazine on a bookstore rack (and it was at a Borders) it had become awfully thin. My fond memory of Newsweek comes from when I lived on a kibbutz in northern Israel in the eighties. In those preinternet days it felt isolated from the rest of the world and the Israeli press was either too remote, ideological, and intellectual, or it was populist and provincial. I subscribed to Newsweek International and found it gave a good weekly view of the world's news. There was a lot of reporting of business and politics in Europe, Africa, and especially the emerging economies of Asia. There was a little bit of cultural and entertainment at the back. When I moved back to the US and picked up the local edition I was surprised at how much of the magazine was lifestyle and entertainment. There was no in depth reporting of what was going on in the rest of the world and I quickly gave up reading it. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
