Newsweek to end print editions

[joshuabardwell]

Josh...DISAGREE with #4...our local paper rarely provides am email address for the vast majority of writers...all you can see is "So and So, Associated Press" and many of the AP articles were published elsewhere a WEEK AGO....!!!

You're absolutely right about wire service articles. I was thinking more along the lines of magazine articles and editorials.

 

[joshuabardwell]

Ink on fingers? I've never had that in my life.

You don't get a black kind of... I don't know... discoloration... almost powdery smear on your hands after reading the newspaper?

 

[JDgreen227]

You're absolutely right about wire service articles. I was thinking more along the lines of magazine articles and editorials.

Thanks for clarification...I had one opinion published in TIME magazine about 2 years ago, and some of my letters to the editors have been printed in various magazines, but despite numerous emails to editorial staff of magazines just commenting on articles I almost never get a response. I am sure they get hundreds of emails a month, and perhaps why that is the reason they rarely respond.

 

[jmurray01]

You don't get a black kind of... I don't know... discoloration... almost powdery smear on your hands after reading the newspaper?

Nope.

 

[joshuabardwell]

Thanks for clarification...I had one opinion published in TIME magazine about 2 years ago, and some of my letters to the editors have been printed in various magazines, but despite numerous emails to editorial staff of magazines just commenting on articles I almost never get a response. I am sure they get hundreds of emails a month, and perhaps why that is the reason they rarely respond.

And, to be fair, when I say you're more likely to get a response, I mean compared to the likelihood of getting a letter back, or getting published in "letters to the editor," so it's not a very high bar.

 

[Oaktree]

The magazine and newspaper industry is being gutted. I would be surprised if Newsweek's decision was motivated by profit, versus not having to close the doors.

I can't say I've been all that pleased by Newsweek since they were acquired by the Daily Beast (whatever that is) and Tina Brown took over as publisher a couple years ago. I was planning on letting my subscription run out anyway. It seems to be mostly editorial/columnists now, as opposed to any actual news reporting.

 

[JDgreen227]

I can't say I've been all that pleased by Newsweek since they were acquired by the Daily Beast (whatever that is) and Tina Brown took over as publisher a couple years ago. I was planning on letting my subscription run out anyway. It seems to be mostly editorial/columnists now, as opposed to any actual news reporting.

I had been a ten year subscriber until back about 2008, when they sharply downsized the magazine and I cancelled my subscription. I really enjoyed some of the columnists such as Robert Samuelson, and the very best part of the older Newsweek was the opinions being written by everyday citizens in "My Turn".