"The grazing stuff, we deliberately chucked it," said Impoco.
It's a sleek, image-friendly book that opens with several pages of bold news photography under the rubric "Big Shots." The front section, "Page One," favors text-based reportage. We're breaking a lot of news."Ĭapital got an exclusive first look at the new layout, which was re-imagined top to bottom by designers Robert Priest and Grace Lee. Why? "Because it's good!," the 55-year-old editor gushed.
Impoco, an alumnus of The New York Times and the late Conde Nast Portfolio, is confident that his iteration of Newsweek will fly off the racks. Mutter, a media consultant who blogs at Confessions of a Newsosaur, "is whether they can create a product that's so compelling, people will put down their iPads and buy a magazine." (Of course Newsweek's tablet edition, which is said to have several hundred thousand paid subscribers, isn't going anywhere, and its daily website will remain robust, Impoco said.) But the quaint appeal of paper isn't enough to encourage success, especially not for a brand saddled with a recent history of bad press, red ink and tumultuous ownership changes. There's even a bit of a dead-tree media renaissance in the growing number of small-scale print startups (including the one you are currently reading) that are taking advantage of the medium's tactile, premium potential, as well as the higher advertising rates and reliable subscription revenue it still commands. Memorable Newsweek covers in recent years have included a December 2003 edition with a bedraggled, long-bearded Saddam Hussein pictured beneath the headline: "We got him.In an industry where digital ventures suck up most of the excitement, and print has all the reputation of a dying T-Rex, anything with physical pages can tend to have a "boutique" feel. The Washington Post sold Newsweek to California billionaire Sidney Harman for $1 in 2010, ahead of a deal with Internet conglomerate IAC to merge the magazine with the news and opinion website The Daily Beast.
2012 newsweek final print full#
By late February, you will see the full evolution of the spanking-new, all-digital Newsweek Global, currently in development." "The next (issue), in the first week of January, will be on your iPad or Kindle or phone. "The issue in your hand is the last edition of Newsweek in print," wrote Brown in an introduction titled: "A new chapter: Sometimes, change isn't just good, it's necessary."
2012 newsweek final print archive#
Its first issue, on Feb 17, 1933, featured seven photos from that week's news printed on the front, including Adolf Hitler snapped in Berlin as he declared: "The German nation must be built up from the ground anew."įor its final cover, dated Dec 31, editor Tina Brown used an aerial archive shot of the magazine's New York headquarters as the backdrop for her message - #LASTPRINTISSUE - the word "print" emblazoned in red ink. Karen Bleier / Agence France-Presseĭuring a fierce decades-long rivalry with fellow US coffee-table staple Time magazine, Newsweek pushed the envelope with bold and often controversial covers. Newsweek ends 80-year run as a weekly news magazine with a final print edition published this week and dated Dec 31, 2012. The final print edition of Newsweek is seen in Washington.
2012 newsweek final print free#
The second-largest weekly news magazine in the United States has been grappling with a steep drop in print advertising revenue, steadily declining circulation and the migration of readers to free news online. Almost 80 years after first going to print, the final Newsweek magazine hit newsstands on Monday featuring an ironic hashtag as a symbol of its Twitter-era transition to an all-digital format.
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