From Newsweek Delivered by Motorcycle to the Heart of the World Wide Web

We’ve read a number of solid, solemn eulogies for the print edition of Newsweek. We’ve also shared a couple of more frivolous POVs here.

But as far as a life dramatically impacted by this particular print-to-Web arc, it’s hard to beat the essay by veteran San Francisco journalist Benjamin Pimentel (pictured). Before helping the San Francisco Chronicle move to the Web in the mid-1990s and working as a columnist for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Pimentel looked forward while growing up in his native Filipino Quezon City to a motorcycle-delivered weekly copy of Newsweek:

Newsweek was how I learned more about the latest Cold War skirmishes between the U.S.

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