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Articles tagged Newsweek (47)

Rusty Foster’s Today in Tabs may be heavy on snark, but it also stands at the intersection of some important trends — the retro intimacy of email, the dance of new and old media, and the next wave of aggregation.
The past decade has mostly seen the retrenchment of American news organizations’ reporting staffs abroad. As BuzzFeed moves more into international news, it’s trying to mix up how its reporting resources are structured.
Plus: John Henry buys The Boston Globe, AOL’s Patch cuts, and the rest of the week’s news in journalism and the web.
“Katharine and I not only hadn’t wanted to do it; we literally hadn’t thought about it. Seven years of declining revenues will give you new ideas.”
Plus: Newsweek up for sale again, the social media editor in decline, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
“We thought there was an opportunity to do for professional journalism what Tumblr and Pinterest and Flipboard, so many of the other innovative new startups, have done for other kinds of content.”
It’s a rare moment: Legacy media leading the way on digital strategy, and watching the web-only guys follow behind.
Plus: The fallout from one newspaper’s publication of gun-permit data, the NYT’s Snow Fall and multimedia journalism, and the rest of the week’s media news.
“This isn’t about competition for us at Tumblr — we just want to tell good stories and get them out to as many people as possible.” Justin Ellis