25 Facts About Newsweek Magazine

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Later that year, Newsweek Magazine merged with the news and opinion website The Daily Beast, forming The Newsweek Magazine Daily Beast Company.

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2.

Newsweek Magazine was jointly owned by the estate of Harman and the diversified American media and Internet company IAC.

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3.

Newsweek Magazine continued to experience financial difficulties, which led to the cessation of print publication and a transition to an all-digital format at the end of 2012.

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4.

Newsweek Magazine obtained financial backing from a group of US stockholders "which included Ward Cheney, of the Cheney silk family, John Hay Whitney, and Paul Mellon, son of Andrew W Mellon".

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5.

Newsweek Magazine changed the name to Newsweek, emphasized interpretive stories, introduced signed columns, and launched international editions.

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6.

Newsweek Magazine was purchased by The Washington Post Company in 1961.

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7.

In 1970, Eleanor Holmes Norton represented sixty female employees of Newsweek Magazine who had filed a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that Newsweek Magazine had a policy of only allowing men to be reporters.

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8.

The day the claim was filed, Newsweek cover article was "Women in Revolt", covering the feminist movement; the article was written by a woman who had been hired on a freelance basis since there were no female reporters at the magazine.

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9.

Newsweek Magazine was sold to audio pioneer Sidney Harman on August 2,2010, for in exchange for assuming the magazine's financial liabilities.

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10.

The new Newsweek moved the "Perspectives" section to the front of the magazine, where it served essentially as a highlight reel of the past week on The Daily Beast.

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11.

Brown retained Newsweek Magazine focus on in-depth, analytical features and original reporting on politics and world affairs, as well as a new focus on longer fashion and pop culture features.

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12.

On July 25,2012, the company operating Newsweek Magazine indicated the publication was likely to go digital to cover its losses and could undergo other changes by the next year.

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13.

In January 2018, Newsweek Magazine offices were raided by the Manhattan District Attorney's office as part of an investigation into co-owner and founder, Etienne Uzac.

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14.

Under current co-owner and CEO Dev Pragad, Newsweek Magazine has made improvements and the company is growing and profitable.

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15.

In 2020, Newsweek Magazine's website hit 100 million unique monthly readers, up from seven million at the start of 2017.

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16.

Dev Pragad was recently profiled in The CEO Newsweek Magazine regarding the publications turnaround, which was the subject of a Harvard Business School case study.

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17.

Newsweek Magazine publishes editions in Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Rioplatense Spanish, Arabic, Turkish, Serbian, as well as an English-language Newsweek Magazine International.

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18.

In 1970, Eleanor Holmes Norton represented sixty female employees of Newsweek Magazine who had filed a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that Newsweek Magazine had a policy of only allowing men to be reporters.

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The day the claim was filed, Newsweek cover article was "Women in Revolt", covering the feminist movement; the article was written by Helen Dudar, a freelancer, on the belief that there were no female writers at the magazine capable of handling the assignment.

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20.

Newsweek Magazine eventually apologized for the story and in 2010 launched a study that discovered 2 in 3 women who were 40 and single in 1986 had married since.

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21.

Newsweek Magazine defended the cover's depiction of her, saying its other photos of Bachmann showed similar intensity.

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22.

In 2017, Newsweek Magazine published a story claiming that the First Lady of Poland refused to shake US President Donald Trump's hand; Snopes described the assertion as "false".

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23.

In 2018, Newsweek Magazine ran a story asserting that President Trump had wrongly colored the American flag while visiting a classroom; Snopes was unable to corroborate the photographic evidence.

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24.

Newsweek Magazine journalists have expressed criticism of the editorial quality of reporting under ownership.

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25.

In February 2018, under IBT ownership, several Newsweek Magazine staff were fired and some resigned stating that management had tried to interfere in with articles about the investigations.

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