Newsweek Announces Digital-Only Plans

Scrutiny turns to Time magazine

Newsweek is going digital-only in 2013, a move that will be felt most immediately in the newsmagazine category but which points to challenges facing the publishing industry overall.

Ending months of speculation stirred up by unfortunate comments by IAC chairman Barry Diller, editor Tina Brown and new CEO Baba Shetty announced today that the 80-year-old Newsweek would adopt a digital-only format in 2013. That will leave Time as the last of the major newsweeklies still publishing in print as readers increasingly get their news from their desktops, tablets and mobile phones and after Mort Zuckerman’s U.S.

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