Newsweek, MSNBC Sever Traffic Ties

One of the supposed advantages of the combined NewsBeast was that The Daily Beast would get the benefit of Newsweek’s much bigger audience.
 
Now, it looks like that advantage is quickly diminishing. Newsweek.com has ended an agreement with MSNBC that provided a significant amount of its traffic—in some months, as much as half.
 
“We’re not continuing it,” Charlie Tillinghast, president and publisher of the MSNBC Digital Network, told Adweek. “They just decided not to do it.