By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 10/18/12 7:54am

The Death of Print

The cover of the current issue.

Newsweek to Stop Print Edition

Newsweek will no longer be a print magazine, Tina Brown announced in an early-morning blog post. The last print edition will be December 31, 2012.

“In our judgment, we have reached a tipping point at which we can most efficiently and effectively reach our readers in all-digital format,” Ms. Brown writes. “This was not the case just two years ago. It will increasingly be the case in the years ahead.”

The new all-digital, paid-subscription publication will be called Newsweek Global and be available for tablets and online. Select content will be available on The Daily Beast’s website. The Daily Beast, which launched in 2008, merged with Newsweek two years ago. Read More

By Kim Velsey 10/10/12 6:52pm

Welcome to New York

He hates Manhattan!

Andrew Sullivan Hates Miserable, Money Sucking “New York Shitty”

Andrew Sullivan has never been shy about expressing his opinion and when it comes to New York—where he’s lived for all of two weeks—he’s not pulling any punches.

In a Daily Beast post written today—entitled, what else? “New York Shitty”—Mr. Sullivan tells us just how much he hates this horrible city. He hates it a lot. He hates the crowds, he hates his apartment, he hates the internet here and he even hates his cell phone service. Most of all he hates how much he’s paying to hate all these things. Read More

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 9/17/12 1:14pm

Tina Trolling

Newsweek Muslim Rage Cover

Newsweek’s #MuslimRage Misfire

Newsweek’s latest attempt to gin up attention and traffic with controversial covers was posted online today–an all caps “Muslim Rage” headline, almost as big as the magazine’s logo, illustrated by a photo of men in religious garb with contorted faces and fists.

In an apparent miscalculation, Newsweek tried to capitalize on their edgy cover by inviting a conversation on Twitter with the suggested hashtag #MuslimRage. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 11/14/11 3:15pm

Exodus

Executive Editor Edward Felsenthal Departs Daily Beast

In the past week, the Newsweek Daily Beast Company has lost three high-level staffers and recouped some long-lost Newsweek veterans, suggesting a major overhaul as executive management comes to grips with a disappointing first year.

Early last week, Tina Brown announced that she’d lured back Dan Klaidman, a longtime managing editor of Newsweek and its Read More

By Emily Witt 10/07/11 6:18pm

foresight is 20/20

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Former Daily Beast Columnist Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Does Tina Brown have a mole on the Nobel judges panel or is she just prescient? In September, The Daily Beast’s publishing arm, Beast Books, published a memoir by Liberian peace activist and Daily Beast contributor Leymah Gbowee called Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War (such a Tina Brown title!) Not three weeks later, Ms. Gbowee was one of three women to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 8/12/11 12:45pm

Imposters

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John Jannuzzi Is Not @CondeElevator.

Lucky style editor John Jannuzzi is not the anonymous  author of the now-defunct @CondeElevator twitter, as the Daily Beast reported yesterday.

“I can confirm that John is not the creator of the Twitter handle @CondeElevator,” Conde Spokesperson Beth Jacobson told The Observer.

After a couple of mildly irritated tweets,  Mr. Jannuzzi published a good-humored denial on Lucky’s website.

“According to The Daily Beast, sources say disciplinary action is only hours away and I’m shaking in my Tretorns,” he wrote.

“On a personal note, according to another tipster, I’m ‘not particularly well known’–I’ll nurse my wounded ego later.” Read More