He joined the magazine staff in 1981 and rose to a succession of more responsible positions: business editor from 1997 to 1991, assistant managing editor from 1991 to 1996 and managing editor from 1996 to 1998. Whitaker came to Newsweek in 1977 as a reporting intern in the San Francisco bureau and later reported as a stringer and intern in Boston, Washington, London and Paris. This year Newsweek won the award for a single-topic issue, "How He Did It"a special issue on the re-election of George W. Newsweek also won the General Excellence award in 2002 for the magazine's coverage of the Sept. Under Whitaker's leadership, Newsweek won the 2004 National Magazine Award for General Excellence, the industry's most prestigious award, for its coverage of the war in Iraq.
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James Bettinger, director of the Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists, will moderate the discussion. Whitaker will be joined on the symposium panel May 17 by Katrina Heron, an author and former editor of Wired magazine, and Tim Porter, who writes the journalism blog First Draft.
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Sponsored by the Knight Fellowships program, both events are free and open to the public. The symposium is scheduled to begin at noon Tuesday, May 17, in the Bechtel Conference Center at Encina Hall. Monday, May 16, in the Hewlett Teaching Center Lecture Hall. The following day, he will take part in a panel discussion focusing on issues raised in his speech and the rapidly changing dynamics of the news media environment. Mark Whitaker, editor of Newsweek magazine, will deliver a talk titled "Choices in the Age of 24/7 News" for the 17th annual John S. Newsweek editor to deliver 17th annual John S. But advertising sales never caught up with the buzz, and media reports have estimated losses at The Daily Beast at around $10 million annually.Newsweek editor to deliver 17th annual John S. President Barack Obama one month later, allowed The Daily Beast to immediately establish a brand and build an audience. The presence of Brown, coupled with an emphasis on political coverage that dovetailed with the election of U.S. In a July article about that move, Reuters gave some backstory, "Barry Diller launched The Daily Beast under the auspices of former New Yorker and Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown in October 2008. There is an internal meeting to announce the news at 11 a.m.īarry Diller, the IAC mogul, owns The Daily Beast, and his company took control of Newsweek earlier this year from the family of billionaire Sidney Harman ( who bought Newsweek in 2010 and died in 2011). Job cuts are expected, but it's unclear how deep they will be. But as we head for the 80th anniversary of Newsweek next year we must sustain the journalism that gives the magazine its purpose-and embrace the all-digital future. It is about the challenging economics of print publishing and distribution.Įxiting print is an extremely difficult moment for all of us who love the romance of print and the unique weekly camaraderie of those hectic hours before the close on Friday night. This decision is not about the quality of the brand or the journalism-that is as powerful as ever. We remain committed to Newsweek and to the journalism that it represents. We are transitioning Newsweek, not saying goodbye to it.
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It is important that we underscore what this digital transition means and, as importantly, what it does not. In a piece published online at The Daily Beast-which merged with Newsweek in 2010-Brown and Daily Beast CEO Baba Shetty acknowledged that the business "has been increasingly affected by the challenging print advertising environment, while Newsweek’s online and e-reader content has built a rapidly growing audience through the Apple, Kindle, Zinio and Nook stores as well as on The Daily Beast." Editor-in-chief Tina Brown said, "In our judgment, we have reached a tipping point at which we can most efficiently and effectively reach our readers in all-digital format." America has apparently not been buying enough copies of magazines featuring stories about Crazy Eyes, Mommy Porn or Hipster Jesus-Newsweek, the storied news institution, will publish its final print edition on December 31.