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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNewsweek will end their print edition at the end of the year.
A sign of the times
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/18/us-newsweek-digital-idUSBRE89H0L020121018
Job cuts, it is said, will follow the change.
still_one
(92,195 posts)LovePeacock
(225 posts)still_one
(92,195 posts)fugop
(1,828 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)Ditto for Time.
Fla Dem
(23,675 posts)in the mid 2000's it changed it's appearance, layout and content. I tried for a while, but it just didn't work for me anymore, It was really hard to give up something you had depended on for 30 years, but finally I canceled mid-subscription about 4 years ago.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)More so because of the job losses than anything else, although I am still a big fan of print journalism.
I work in the industry, and it's a tough business to be in nowadays.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)I hope they make some major improvements there. I've almost stopped visiting that site. The articles are stale and the site navigation is really lacking.
Hugin
(33,148 posts)Could they do it sooner?
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,838 posts)Hugin
(33,148 posts)Like the oil change places and the fast food joints. Mostly.
askyeshua
(59 posts)wishlist
(2,795 posts)I was dismayed by the last one I happened to pick up at the library several weeks ago- it seemed much more right wing than I remembered for Newsweek and many fewer articles. So I am not at all sorry.