Newsweek Ending Print Edition, Going All-Digital In 2013; Job Cuts Expected

HUFFINGTON POST: …The magazine has been in print since 1933. That will end after its Dec. 31 issue. The shuttering of the print edition will inevitably seen as a harbinger of things to come for the wider industry.

The all-digital tablet edition will be called Newsweek Global. it will launch in early 2013 and require a paid subscription.

In a note, Brown wrote that the economics of print had ceased to make sense for the magazine, which merged with her Daily Beast website in 2010. At the time, she had written that the website would “quicken the pace of a great magazine’s revival.” She also warned that there will be layoffs coming: …   (more)

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