Should we cry for Newsweek? That it's been put on the auction block does not come as a surprise. A top editor recently told me that its sale, radical alteration, or demise was likely. Nor have I been reading it regularly, playing a small role in the magazine's thirty-three per cent drop in circulation over the past decade. When I've been overseas, especially in places where few publications find their way, I always look for it—in Iraq, for example, where Newsweek's international edition kept ...
Published on May 06, 2010 12:01