The crowdfunding platform Beacon just announced a partnership with Newsweek magazine to help fund a reporter investigating sexual assaults on college campuses, and despite the criticisms of an earlier partnership with The Huffington Post, there are a lot of benefits to such an approach…
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Dorian Nakamoto lawyers up, definitively denies being Bitcoin creator
The man identified by Newsweek as being the inventor of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin has issued a categorical denial, claiming the story hurt his job prospects and confused his family.…
Read MoreOf Bitcoin and doxxing: Is revealing Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity okay because it was Newsweek and not Reddit?
Newsweek has identified a man it believes is the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, and published details about his personal life. How is this different from what Reddit users and others have been widely criticized for doing with the Boston bombers?…
Read MoreWhat can the failure of Tina Brown and The Daily Beast tell us about the future of media?
Despite her successful track record at magazines like Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, editor Tina Brown was incapable of making The Daily Beast work. Her failure there says a lot about how the media landscape has changed.…
Read MoreDaily Beast editor Tina Brown drops a Twitter bomb on Howard Kurtz
Daily Beast editor Tina Brown is well known for her somewhat abrasive personality, and that side of her was in full display on Twitter in a response to former Beast columnist Howard Kurtz about the death of Newsweek.…
Read MoreFive things a new owner could do to revitalize the Newsweek brand
According to multiple reports, media mogul Barry Diller is looking to unload his stake in Newsweek magazine. Is the title's brand irreparably damaged, or could a new owner revitalize it? Here are a few suggestions.…
Read MoreDisruption guru Clay Christensen says incumbent media players are making a classic mistake
Existing players in an industry almost always fail to appreciate how disruption will affect them or understand how to adapt to it, Harvard professor Clay Christensen says, and media companies are making all of those same mistakes.…
Read MoreTime waits for no man: Are deep cuts at the media giant just the beginning?
Hammered by declining print advertising revenue in much the same way newspapers have been, Time Inc. announced that it is laying off about 500 of its staff. But are the cuts the end, or just the beginning?…
Read MoreCan Andrew Sullivan make post-industrial journalism pay?
Blogging superstar Andrew Sullivan dropped a bombshell on Wednesday by saying he is leaving The Daily Beast and setting up his own subscription-based website. Can he become the first prominent success story in what some have called the move towards "post-industrial" journalism?…
Read MoreClay Christensen, newspapers and the cliff of despair
Like other industries that have been disrupted by new forms of competition, Clay Christensen says that newspapers were almost incapable of taking the steps they needed to take -- even long after the danger of not taking those steps had become abundantly obvious.…
Read MoreNewsweek shuts print edition, goes gently into digital night
Say goodbye to Newsweek -- the 80 year old news magazine will stop publishing at the end of this year. Editor Tina Brown envisions a digital future for Newsweek but the plan seems a longshot.…
Read MoreWhy it’s better for fact-checking to be done in public
Critics of a Newsweek cover story by historian Niall Ferguson say the piece should never have been published because of the errors and flawed logic it contains. But isn't it better if those kinds of mistakes are corrected in public view instead of behind closed doors?…
Read MoreMore Turmoil At Newsweek/Daily Beast As Three Top Executives Exit
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) CEO Barry Diller told investors this summer that the company could tolerate the continued losses at the combined Newsweek/D……
Read MoreNewsweek Daily Beast Executive Chairman Harman Dies At 92
Dr. Sidney Harman, the founder and chairman emeritus of audio and electronics company Harman International who bought Newsweek magazine and……
Read MoreMSNBC And Newsweek End Web Traffic Partnership
With the final ink barely dry on the merger between Newsweek and The Daily Beast, MSNBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) has been told that it will no longer s……
Read MoreNewsweek and the Gray Lady: Your Future Awaits
Ever since the news hit that Newsweek's new owner is merging the publication with Tina Brown's new-media entity The Daily Beast, there has been a wave of criticism over the decision to kill Newsweek's website. But is that such a bad idea? Not necessarily.…
Read MoreUpdated: Newsweek.com Faces Down Extinction, Will Remain Separate From TDB
Update: Well, it looks as if the effort to keep Newsweek.com alive has worked. In an early afternoon Tweet, Tina Brown says, "Woah! Newsweek……
Read MoreThe Daily Beast And Newsweek Are Merging — For Real This Time
Updated: Newsweek and The Daily Beast will merge after all in a deal forged despite a misunderstanding that stopped earlier negotiations. Th……
Read MoreNewsweek’s Final Price: $1 In Cash And $47 Million In Liabilities
Confirming what was widely reported but never publicly acknowledged, a Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) SEC filing shows that billionaire Sidney……
Read MoreIt’s Official: WaPo Hands Newsweek Over To Harman
The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) just sent out a two-sentence press release announcing the closing of the deal to sell Newsweek magaz……
Read MoreWaPo’s Online Newspaper Revs Turn Sharply Up, But Ask Later About Newsweek
In its next to last quarter as the owner of Newsweek, the Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) isn't releasing details about the magazine's p……
Read MoreWhat’s Next For Newsweek?
While Newsweek now has a new owner, most observers are still leaving the magazine for dead. Even the new owner, 91-year-old Sidney Harman, p……
Read MoreHarman On Newsweek: ‘National Treasure’; ‘Business Challenge’; Meacham Out
Following the pre-announcement word earlier, now it's official: The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) sent out the official release confir……
Read MoreWaPo Sells Newsweek To Harman; Announcement Coming This Afternoon
As expected, The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) will sell Newsweek to audio equipment impresario Sidney Harman, AdAge reported, and pai……
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