According to multiple reports, media mogul Barry Diller is looking to unload his stake in Newsweek magazine. Is the title’s brand irreparably damaged, or could a new owner revitalize it? Here are a few suggestions. Read more »
Existing players in an industry almost always fail to appreciate how disruption will affect them or understand how to adapt to it, Harvard professor Clay Christensen says, and media companies are making all of those same mistakes. Read more »
Hammered by declining print advertising revenue in much the same way newspapers have been, Time Inc. announced that it is laying off about 500 of its staff. But are the cuts the end, or just the beginning? Read more »
Blogging superstar Andrew Sullivan dropped a bombshell on Wednesday by saying he is leaving The Daily Beast and setting up his own subscription-based website. Can he become the first prominent success story in what some have called the move towards “post-industrial” journalism? Read more at GigaOM »
Like other industries that have been disrupted by new forms of competition, Clay Christensen says that newspapers were almost incapable of taking the steps they needed to take — even long after the danger of not taking those steps had become abundantly obvious. Read more at GigaOM »
Say goodbye to Newsweek — the 80 year old news magazine will stop publishing at the end of this year. Editor Tina Brown envisions a digital future for Newsweek but the plan seems a longshot. Read more »
Critics of a Newsweek cover story by historian Niall Ferguson say the piece should never have been published because of the errors and flawed logic it contains. But isn’t it better if those kinds of mistakes are corrected in public view instead of behind closed doors? Read more at GigaOM »
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) CEO Barry Diller told investors this summer that the company could tolerate the continued losses at the combined Newsweek/D… Read more »
Dr. Sidney Harman, the founder and chairman emeritus of audio and electronics company Harman International who bought Newsweek magazine and… Read more »
With the final ink barely dry on the merger between Newsweek and The Daily Beast, MSNBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) has been told that it will no longer s… Read more »
Update: Well, it looks as if the effort to keep Newsweek.com alive has worked. In an early afternoon Tweet, Tina Brown says, “Woah! Newsweek… Read more »
Updated: Newsweek and The Daily Beast will merge after all in a deal forged despite a misunderstanding that stopped earlier negotiations. Th… Read more »
Confirming what was widely reported but never publicly acknowledged, a Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) SEC filing shows that billionaire Sidney… Read more »
The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) just sent out a two-sentence press release announcing the closing of the deal to sell Newsweek magaz… Read more »
In its next to last quarter as the owner of Newsweek, the Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) isn’t releasing details about the magazine’s p… Read more »
While Newsweek now has a new owner, most observers are still leaving the magazine for dead. Even the new owner, 91-year-old Sidney Harman, p… Read more »
Following the pre-announcement word earlier, now it’s official: The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) sent out the official release confir… Read more »
As expected, The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) will sell Newsweek to audio equipment impresario Sidney Harman, AdAge reported, and pai… Read more »
In its attempts to find a buyer for Newsweek, The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) has been said to have hardly given a thought to bids f… Read more »
“Indications of interest” in Newsweek are in and the publication has at least three official suitors. Bloomberg says in a report that OpenGa… Read more »
When the Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) announced that Newsweek was for sale, the top-line numbers we pulled out of SEC documents weren’t n… Read more »
Haim Saban, fresh off of buying back the rights to the Power Rangers characters from Disney (NYSE: DIS), tells the WSJ he would take a “seri… Read more »
With the Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) already considering the sale of Newsweek, the first quarter results surely cemented it. While other… Read more »
In the department-of-good-timing department: Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham was already scheduled to be on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart the… Read more »
The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Co.’s plan to sell Newsweek isn’t likely to impact its already dismal ad picture, media buyers tell paidCont… Read more »
In the past, whenever Newsweek posted the occasional loss, Don Graham could see a way back to profitability. That wasn’t the case this time… Read more »
Peeking through Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Company’s 2009 10K is instructive, if you want to know the current state of Newsweek. Or even th… Read more »
The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) has come to the end of the road with struggling Newsweek. The company just announced that it has hired… Read more »
As a former executive at public companies NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) and *Sony* BMG, Bloomberg’s Andy Lack appreciates the virtues of being at… Read more »
Newsweek, still struggling to figure out what it needs to figure out, has done about a dozen layoffs, according to an internal memo picked u… Read more »
Newsweek.com and MSNBC.com will continue to throw traffic to each other for another two years, in a deal that execs tell paidContent include… Read more »
Newsweek, owned by the Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) group, is taking the hard but necessary steps of trying to reinvent itself and keep its r… Read more »
With Time Inc.’s print ad revenues trending downward and digital growth likely to miss the company’s expected 53 percent gains, chairman and… Read more »
Newsweek, owned by The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO), is seeing more upheaval: Greg Osberg, president and publisher of the news weekl… Read more »
