Newsweek Goes All-Digital By Jessica Kopena The topic that I am going to be talking about for my blog post is the

fact that Newsweek magazine is going to be in an all-digital formal starting in 2013. The last print edition of Newsweek will be printed in December. Newsweek is a magazine that is produced weekly in New York City. It is issued th roughout the world and is the second-largest weekly news magazine in the United States, right behind Time. Newsweeks depart from its 79 years in the print world will leave Time magazine stan ding on its own against their competitor, US News & World Report, which was launche d the same year as Newsweek, published its last print issue two years ago, according to Newspaper Death Watch. Its no shock to anybody that Newsweek is going digital. The magazine has bounced aro und between different owners for two years. It has been owned by the Washington P ost Company, which sold Newsweek for $1 in 2010 to 92-year-old stereo equipment m agnate, Sidney Harman, who promptly died. However, before Harman died, ry Dillers InterActiveCorp, kwardly titled business unit er Death Watch. By the time million to 1.4 million he placed the magazine into a joint venture with Bar where it became a sibling to The Daily Beast in an aw called The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, said Newspap this company formed, circulation collapsed from over 3

A joint venture is a general partnership typically formed to undertake a particul ar business transaction or project and is intended to exist for a limited time p eriod, according to US Legal. Two or more parent companies agree to share capital, tec hnology, human resources, risks and rewards in a formation of a new entity under shared control. Editor at the time, Tina Brown made an effort to entice the audience of Newsweek magazine by using the provocative approach. In July 2011, Newsweek had a cover d epicting what Princess Diana would have looked like at age 50, but some media ob servers thought the racier fare was out-of-step with the magazines buttoned-down tradition. Brown, Dianas biographer and longtime provocateur, was the one who wrote the arti cle based on the cover about how Princess Diana looks at age 50 and a picture of Kate Middleton, according to Time Free Press. Brown also said We wanted to bring the memory of Diana alive in a vivid image that transcends time and reflects my piece. There were also other things about Princess Diana that were in the issue. This i ssue featured An imagined Diana Facebook page and a slideshow comparing the fashi on styles of Diana and Middleton, who married Dianas oldest child, Prince William in April, according to Time Free Press. Samir Husni, director of the Magazine Innovation Center at the University Of Mis sissippi School Of Journalism, felt that Newsweek committed suicide, said Newspaper Death Watch. Diller, according to The New York Times Media Decoder blog, With only 500 pages of print advertising this year, It became completely self-evident that we couldnt pr int the magazine anymore, according to Newspaper Death Watch. Newsweek will actually continue to live in print through a handful of overseas licenses, but U.S. subsc ribers will next year find it replaced by the all-digital Newsweek Global, with

a single, worldwide edition that requires a paid subscription.