Newsweek's current issue features its annual pre-nominations "Oscar roundtable"--and either it'll look dated when nominations are announced tomorrow, or we need to adjust our predictions! The panelists are likely nominees George Clooney and Viola Davis (the working-it pair both recently appeared together on an Entertainment Weekly cover, too), as well as Read More
Interesting: Most soon-to-be parents squabble for months over baby names. But if you work at Tina Brown's Newsweek, one of the nice perks is that you can just put the question to your magazine's 1,500,000+ Twitter and Tumblr followers and let them decide for you! At least, that's what Deputy Editor Paula Szuchman was forced by Tina Brown to do in an attempt to boost the company's image as a warm, friendly work environment chose to do.
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Angelina Jolie covers this week's Newsweek, keeping with the Tina Brown tendency to feature bold face name women and with a black background design that harkens back to her Talk days. It might even be working at little, as Newsweek subscription renewals rose last month for the first time in 2006, according to Read More
In the past week, the Newsweek Daily Beast Company has lost three high-level staffers and recouped some long-lost Newsweek veterans, suggesting a major overhaul as executive management comes to grips with a disappointing first year. Early last week, Tina Brown announced that she’d lured back Dan Klaidman, a longtime managing editor of Newsweek and its Read More
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A former Newsweek veteran, Dan Klaidman, has rejoined The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, editor in chief Tina Brown announced to staff today. Read More
Newsweek and The Daily Beast have hired Abigail Pesta, Marie Claire editor-at-large, to serve as editorial director of women's issues, including content pegged to the expanding Women in the World initiative, The Observer has learned. Tina Brown's Women in the World Summit, conceived of in 2010 and programmed by Kyle Gibson, is slated to occur Read More
Two wildly different takes on the same Newsweek newsstand figures suggest Tina Brown is as divisive a figure as she ever was. Business Insider said the 50,000 average for the first half of 2011 means the weekly is "turning around." Before she started it was around 39,000, and ad pages have doubled compared Read More
If you thought photoshopping a dead royal on the cover of Newsweek to advertise the most offensive foray by a major American magazine into fan fiction was progressive, well, you should see their chairs. Read More
Although they had a rocky start to the season (and a broken nose), the team’s stats are now giving Tina Brown reason to celebrate the merger (recently christened again by the recent redirect of Newsweek's site to the belly of the Beast). Before The Daily Beast and Newsweek merged, they were Read More
Susanna Schrobsdorff, former editorial director of Newsweek Digital, recently spoke to The Transom about a group of fellow newsweek.com alumnis' booze cruise around Manhattan this Saturday (as first reported in the Eight-Day Week). “The last round of people in the buyout group just left,” Ms. Schrobsdorff, who departed the company in December 2010, said Read More
Wednesday, July 13 Hoisted by Your Own Petanque We’re in those post-Fourth doldrums, in which it seems the sticky heat won’t ever end—we miss our blazers! We used to look professional! But at least we’re one up on the men in sandals, waggling their ill-kept toes at us as we skulk over to Read More
So-called "American psycho" Patrick Bateman, who graduated from Harvard in 1984, would be 50 this year, if he were a person living in the real world; the novel commemorating his romp through New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s turns 20 this year. Anniversaries! So meaningful as a way to Read More
Newsweek, in response to criticisms of their current, if-Diana-were-alive-and-looked-like-Tina Brown cover, has issued a powerful rebuttal. They posted a Facebook poll. That poll gives the reader five options as to how Diana's "age advancement" looks, three of which are purely aesthetic ("She would have looked younger," "She would have looked older," or Read More
A follow-up to our item on Newsweek's creepy alive-Diana cover: the "plot" of Ms. Brown's article, in which an aging Diana gets Botox and moves to New York, is like-but-unlike the plot of Monica Ali's new novel, Untold Story, in which an aging Diana dyes her hair and moves to the Midwest. Read More
