I find this a little sad, my Dad subscribed to it my entire childhood. I enjoyed reading it in the 70s and 80s.
On the other hand, a “news” magazine that runs with the headline “Heaven Is Real” should be beaten with a shovel and buried in shallow grave.
About time. That rag ceased to be a “news” magazine years ago.
I hate Newsweek, but I’ll be sure to get the last issue and shove it a box for posterity.
They starting it to us several months back under what I assume was some sort of promotion (never ordered it, and certainly never paid for it) - looking forward to no longer having to chuck the POS into the recycling every week.
I got it as a thank-you gift for my MPR donation a coupla years back. It wasn’t even worth free. I remember it being good when my mom had a subscription in the '90s, but it’s gone downhill fast. I rather have to say, “Good riddance.”
Just finally throwing dirt on it… It died a while ago…
I tested a hypothesis in college on whether the images on the covers of news magazines had a correlation with support for the first gulf war - I had the survey data, and then just had to code the covers of Newsweek, Us News and Time.
Because they were at every grocery store, and stacked in every waiting room, and were the article of record for in-depth news.
Not only did I get the null on my hypothesis, but now they no longer print. Not surprising, but still another “end of an era” moment.
Like most conservatives, I WANT to take some pleasure in the decline and fall of a Mainstream Media outlet… but I just can’t.
Newsweek hasn’t been worth reading in a long time. The days when people were willing to wait a week to read about “current” events are long gone. Newsweek’s management saw that and tried to come up with a new formula, but they could never find one that worked. They couldn’t figure out whether they wanted to be a left-wing commentary magazine or a mass market tabloid.
More and more of the old Mainstream Media outlets will be folding before long, and I have a bad feeling we’re going to miss them.
I had a subscription 20-some years ago and liked it at the time, but it’s been going downhill for awhile now. Too bad, though - the end of an era.
They are a victim of the coming ice age that they warned us about in 1975.
http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
I know I start to get more and more of my magazines on Ipad/Kindle, for storage reasons. I keep telling myself I may want to look at a “Hockey News” article from March, 2010 someday. It will be interesting to see what survives in print in 2022.
Back in the days before Internet, when I was living in Berlin, it was great to get TIME and NEWSWEEK to catch up on events in the US that I would normally have not read about nor even know happened.
TIME was always better than NEWSWEEK, so I don’t have any fuzzy warm memories of that magazine.
Still, kind of sad to see any magazine fold, but newspapers and magazines are quickly becoming a relic in today’s society. It is also sad they have not really found a way to become profitable on the Internet. I don’t think paid subscriptions are taking off - people expect to read their news for free, or read some blog by some non-fact-checking nutcase and consider it fact.
I understand what they were trying to do when Tina Brown remade the magazine, but I absolutely hated the result and let my subscription expire. It’s just like daily newspapers – I mourn their death in general, but I mourn some of them a lot less than others.
I agree with the OP that "a “news” magazine that runs with the headline “Heaven Is Real” should be beaten with a shovel and buried in shallow grave. "
It is a shame that Time has a monopoly on this market though. I wonder how long Time will stay around in print edition.
Damn it! This has to cease. What’s next, buggy whips?
I had a subscription to Newsweek for, decades I think. I first glommed onto the magazine in my high school history class, where Mr. Sharp had a subscription to Newsweek and left the copies in the classroom.
I thought it was head and shoulders above Time. At least, I did. Just before they sold out to Brown and the Daily Beast, things started to go astray for them. Once Brown took over, it went to crap in a hurry. For the first time in ever, I didn’t renew my subscription.
So it’s sad to see Newsweek as a print magazine go away, but I won’t miss the whatever-it-was that Tina Brown turned it into.
Who will provide a steady stream of cringe-inducing nationally embarrassing covers once it is gone?
Sadly, someone will step up to the plate and replace them…
Ha, this is what I popped in to say.
I was a subscriber for almost 40 years (and my parents subscribed since the 1950s), but quit when they switched from being a newsmagazine into a commentary magazine. There’s a ton of commentary available, but very little news or serious discussion about the news. If** Newsweek** had turned into a real newsmagazine – like The Economist – they’d have something different to sell, and they’d be doing OK.
Tina Brown, the Kevorkian of journalism…
Thanks. I couldn’t think of a good way to express that sentiment.