And, finally, Newsweek has a home.

After months of hemming-and-hawing with a move to the Financial District, Newsweek is offically moving a little farther north to 395 Hudson Street in Hudson Square. They'll be packing into an increasingly crowded media neighborhood, moving alongside New York Magazine, Clear Channel, Viacom, Miramax, NPR and CBS Radio.  read more »

Newsweek gives big play this week to Rupert Murdoch's early maneuvers at The Wall Street Journal. Point: He's the general who has declared war on The New York Times.

This is something we've been talking about around here for a while now, and rumors of war aside, we haven't quite heard the first shot around here.

That doesn't change much with this week's story, but there's still lots of juice here.

Here are the highlights:  read more »

Felix Dennis, the billionaire publisher of Maxim who was the first person to say the word “cunt” on live British television, cut right to the chase last night at the Columbia Journalism School.

“Let’s get the murder thing out of the way,” he said in his refined British accent, alluding to his outrageous, and subsequently retracted claim in The Times of London on April 2 that he had killed a man 25 years ago.  read more »

Did a recent Times story borrow from a 14-month-old Newsweek story on the Buenos Aires party scene?

Fishbowl NY, which links to an Argentinan blog which makes the original case, passes no judgment but presents the blog's case.  read more »

The terms of Karl Rove's contract with Newsweek: It's a 2-year-deal, 8 columns per year and 16 overall.

A Newsweek spokeswoman confirmed this to Media Mob; editor Jon Meacham had let it slip out on Feb. 7, when a Columbia J-school student asked him about Mr. Rove (and right before Mr. Meacham asked an entire lecture-room full of Columbia students why they didn't like Newsweek).

After about an hour, there seemed to be no more questions for him, so Newsweek editor Jon Meacham turned to his audience—about 100 graduate students at Columbia journalism school—and said he had a question for them: Did anyone in the room read Newsweek or Time? There was a small, awkward rumbling before finally, a man shouted, "No!"

Mr. Meacham scanned the audience for his quarry and then asked the journalism student, clad in a black turtleneck, whether he read The Economist. Yes, he did.  read more »

Newsweek is poised to be the first major publishing firm of recent years to move from midtown to downtown, as the magazine has a lease out for about 200,000 square feet at landlord Alex Sapir’s 100 Church Street, according to a s  read more »

Newsweek is close to striking a deal that will move the magazine out of its midtown headquarters and into 100 Church Street in downtown Manhattan. The Observer's Eliot Brown is reporting that Newsweek has reached a lease agreement at 100 Church Street, which is two blocks from City Hall. Brown is being told that a final deal should be reached by the end of the month.

Newsweek, which for decades has called midtown its home, is nearing a deal that would move its offices downtown to 100 Church Street.  read more »

Newsweek is looking to leave its headquarters at 1775 Broadway near Columbus Circle and is fishing for new office space around Manhattan, the Post reports.  The newsweekly is considering 100 Church Street in the Financial District, which sits at the foot of the World Trade Center redevelopment site.  read more »