Newsweek’s Web-Only Future: Inevitable, and a Whole Lot Smaller

The print magazine is going. The tablet magazine looks unlikely. Which leaves a modest-size Web site, and a bunch of layoffs.
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Newsweek to End Print Edition

Newsweek, the struggling newsweekly that was sold for $1 two years ago, will drop its print edition after an eight-decade run to become digital-only by the end of the year, the company said Thursday.

Will Barry Diller Take Newsweek Web-Only? Mmmmaybe!

Publishing print magazines is a lousy business, says the IAC boss. So he’s “examining all of our options.”
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Columbia University Names Sree Sreenivasan Its First Chief Digital Officer

But everyone will still know him as just plain Sree.
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Yahoo Hires Google Exec Barrett as Chief Of Revenue, as Big Ad Changes Loom

Get ready for a new Yahoo ad strategy, too.
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Hello, American Pie! Why a 40-Year-Old Song Became This Weekend’s Viral Video

Because it’s fun, because it’s a long weekend, and because the people of Grand Rapids, Michigan, have an axe to grind.
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Stereo Magnate Harman Dies

Sidney Harman, the founder of a stereo-equipment empire who last year purchased Newsweek magazine, died Tuesday night of complications from acute myeloid leukemia. He was 92 years old.

AOL-HuffPo Deal Officially Closes Today–More Big Media Hires Signal New Content Direction Under Arianna

AOL will officially close its $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post today, sources said, only one month after it was struck. To celebrate, the now-official content head Arianna Huffington will be poaching another clutch of big journalists to add to AOL’s new Huffington Post Media Group unit.

Backstage at the Onion's New TV Show

The Onion lands its second TV show in a month–this one is the pitch-perfect “Onion News Network” on IFC–and we sit down with head writer Carol Kolb.

Facebook to Big Media: We Like You. We Really, Really Like You.

Facebook has 550 million friends, but it’s working extra hard to woo a very specific group: Heavyweight media companies. It might be working! See: A proposed linkup between the social network, Time Warner’s cable channels and Verizon’s FiOS TV.

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