Newsweek to end print edition and go online in New Year
18 Oct 2012
Newsweek, the US current affairs magazine, will end its 80 years of print publishing and go completely online from the New Year. Newsweek will bring out its last print edition on 31 December 2012 and become an online-only publication.
With this, Newsweek, which merged with the internet news group the Daily Beast two years ago, will also complete its switch over to the digital publishing mode.
The new all digital edition will be called Newsweek Global, and will be a single, worldwide edition, editor-in-chief of Newsweek, Tina Brown and CEO, Baba Shetty said in a web site statement on Newsweek's sister publication `The Daily Beast'.
The number of unique visitors on the Daily Beast's web site had increased more than 70 per cent to over 15 million a month, according to its founder Tina Brown.
Tina Brown, wife of the legendary journalist, Harold Evans, is a former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Tina Brown became Lady Evans when her husband Harold Evans was knighted.
The shift to digital publication also reflects the growing trend for newspapers and magazines to move online as traditional advertising declines.
