Newsweek

Betaworks Hires Former HuffPost Publisher Balis as CRO

Kara Swisher in Media on November 6, 2013 at 6:03 am PT

The New York-based tech studio is trying to monetize across all its online media platforms.

News Byte

IAC Sells Newsweek (Sans The Daily Beast) to IBT Media

Mike Isaac in Media on August 3, 2013 at 3:47 pm PT

International Business Times Media has acquired the 80-year-old news publication Newsweek from IAC, the company announced on Saturday. The deal, which is expected to close in the coming days, does not include The Daily Beast, the online news website run by Tina Brown, which merged with Newsweek in 2010, also owned by IAC. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

IAC’s Barry Diller and CNN’s Jeff Zucker: The Full D11 Interview (Video)

Jason Del Rey in D11 on May 29, 2013 at 3:30 pm PT

The two media execs talk Aereo, the future of the TV bundle and the “poo-poo cruise.”

Diller, Zucker Talk Aereo, “Creative Destruction” and the “Poo-Poo Cruise”

Jason Del Rey in D11 on May 29, 2013 at 1:20 pm PT

One man trying to create TV for the future, another trying to reinvent TV of the past.

Hey, Big Spender!

I got seduced into Newsweek.

— IAC’s Barry Diller, explaining his ill-fated decision to buy the magazine he has stopped printing, at the D: All Things Digital conference. Unexplained: The seducer’s identity.

Newsweek’s Web-Only Future: Inevitable, and a Whole Lot Smaller

Peter Kafka in Media on October 19, 2012 at 7:13 am PT

The print magazine is going. The tablet magazine looks unlikely. Which leaves a modest-size Web site, and a bunch of layoffs.

Voices

Newsweek to End Print Edition

Keach Hagey and Drew Fitzgerald, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 18, 2012 at 6:17 am PT

Newsweek, the struggling newsweekly that was sold for $1 two years ago, will drop its print edition after an eight-decade run to become digital-only by the end of the year, the company said Thursday.