Newsweek

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Newsweek
Newsweek Logo.svg
description newsmagazine
publishing company Newsweek Media Group (formerly IBT Media)
Headquarters New York City
First edition February 17, 1933
founder Thomas JC Martyn
Frequency of publication weekly
Sold edition 1,527,156 copies
( Audit Bureau of Circulations )
Editor-in-chief Nancy Cooper
Web link www.newsweek.com
ISSN (print) 0028-9604
CODEN NSWKA

Newsweek is a weekly US news magazine headquartered in New York . In the USA, a print edition has been appearing again since 2014, after the last previously printed edition appeared there at the end of 2012 and the magazine was only available online in the meantime. The edition for Great Britain and the international edition, which was switched to "digital-only" in 2013, have been appearing again as printed editions since 2014.

history

1933 to 2012

The first edition in 1933, with a report on the seizure of power in Germany

Newsweek was founded as News-Week by former Time editor Thomas JC Martyn . The first edition appeared on February 17, 1933.

Newsweek was bought by the Washington Post Company in 1961 , which it sold on to US industrialist Sidney Harman in August 2010 for the symbolic price of one US dollar . Harman, founder of the hi-fi component manufacturer Harman / Kardon , took over the magazine's debts.

In November 2010 it was announced that Newsweek was merging with the politics, opinion and entertainment website The Daily Beast . The editor-in-chief for both editorial offices has since been Tina Brown , who had previously headed the editorial department of The Daily Beast and is also the founder of the website. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) became the current President of The Daily Beast Stephen Colvin.

The new company was named The Newsweek Daily Beast Company . It belonged in equal parts to Sidney Harman († 2011) and InterActiveCorp , which is owned by media mogul Barry Diller . After Harman's death, his share passed to his family, who stopped providing financial support for the loss-making magazine.

Four English-language editions were recently published with a total circulation of around 4 million copies. On the US market, “Newsweek” was in the middle of the “big three” , the opinion-forming news magazines, behind “ Time ” and ahead of “ US News & World Report ” with a circulation of 3.1 million . In addition to the edition appearing in the United States, there were three versions of "Newsweek International": "Atlantic" (Europe, Africa, Middle East), "Latin America" and "Pacific" .

For financial reasons, Newsweek discontinued its US print edition on December 31, 2012 and limited itself there to electronic media. In the previous ten years, the magazine's circulation had fallen from more than four to around one and a half million copies, and advertising revenue had fallen accordingly. The print edition of the magazine continued to appear in the UK and Europe through 2013.

In August 2013, InterActiveCorp sold Newsweek to the online media company IBT Media , which includes the International Business Times .

Relaunch 2014

In autumn 2013, the new editor-in-chief Jim Impoco announced that a US print edition would appear again in early 2014. In March 2014, Newsweek finally came back on the market in print in the USA. The first issue had an attempt at a coup as the cover story. A reporter asked for the identity of the inventor of Bitcoin , Satoshi Nakamoto, to be revealed. The cover story received considerable criticism; the named person denied being the inventor of Bitcoin and asked for donations for a lawsuit against the magazine.

2018 crisis

On February 5, 2018, the editor-in-chief Bob Roe, the news chief Kenneth Li and the investigative reporter Celeste Katz were fired without informing the editorial team. Bob Roe and Kenneth Li had hired staff to investigate possible financial links between a Christian church and Newsweek. Jonathan Davis, co-owner of the publisher, is a member of this church. Due to a report by Celeste Katz about allegations of sexual harassment, Daryan Candappa, the publishing director responsible for editing, was released. Katz had also reported on a raid on the Newsweek offices during a review of the publisher on allegations of financial irregularities. The publisher is said to have overestimated the price of a series of advertisements for the US consumer protection agency by several million dollars by manipulating the number of clicks on the website using bots. As a result of the investigations, Newsweek chairman and co-owner Etienne Uzac and his wife Marion Kim, acting finance director, had resigned. When the layoffs became known, other reporters resigned in protest.

License issues

Licensed editions of “Newsweek” appear in Japanese (since 1986), Korean (1991), Spanish (for Latin America, since 1996), Arabic (2000) and Turkish (2008). The Axel Springer Verlag is since 2001 a Polish license issue out until October 2010 there was a Russian named June 2004 Russky Newsweek .

In Russia it was the second attempt for “Newsweek”; a version published in cooperation with Itogi magazine was published in 1996. However, it was discontinued in 2001 because Vladimir Gussinski , to whose media empire she belonged, had fallen out of favor with the Kremlin and his corporation was broken up. In terms of content, scientific articles such as B. contain the new planetary system.

In May 2005, Newsweek reported in a report on Guantánamo that the Koran had been violated there by flushing it down the toilet to induce inmates to testify. The report led to rioting in the Muslim world, particularly in Afghanistan ; around 20 people died. "Newsweek" withdrew the report within a week, partially and then completely, because the supposedly internal government source had relativized its statements. The US government sharply criticized Newsweek: “The report had serious consequences. People have lost their lives, ”said a spokesman for the US Presidential Office. The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) now supports the Newsweek report and reported statements made by prisoners to delegates of the committee that the Koran had been denigrated by the American military in 2002 and 2003. The Pentagon initiated an investigation that revealed a total of seven cases in which guards or interrogators, as well as fifteen cases in which inmates treated the Koran in a manner inappropriate for Muslims, but - contrary to what was originally claimed - had not violated it.

Web links

Commons : Newsweek  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Mischke: "Newsweek" returns from the Internet to paper - Abendblatt, 2014
  2. ↑ US industrialist takes over Newsweek magazine , Welt online, August 3, 2010
  3. ↑ Newsweek is slated to sell for one dollar , Spiegel Online, August 2, 2010
  4. ↑ Newsweek and The Daily Beast Combine, November 12, 2010
  5. ↑ Last edition of Newsweek published, ORF.at from December 25, 2012 http://orf.at/#/stories/2158088/
  6. ↑ The Old and the Beast in: Spiegel Online from November 12, 2010
  7. ↑ a b Die Welt : US magazine "Newsweek" discontinues printed edition
  8. ↑ US magazine goes digital: “Newsweek” is giving up the print edition ( Memento from August 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, October 18, 2012 (accessed October 18, 2012)
  9. ^ Spiegel online: US web magazine: Online publishing house IBT Media buys "Newsweek" , August 4, 2013
  10. ↑ http://www.mikehearn.com/Hosted-Files/Nakamoto-Could-Newsweek-Have-Known/
  11. ↑ https://www.heise.de/tp/news/Dorian-Nakamoto-Newsweek-hurt-my-Family-2425924.html
  12. ↑ Axel Springer Russia: License agreement for NEWSWEEK will not be extended in: Axel Springer AG of October 18, 2010
  13. ↑ Big News Week ( Memento of November 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 29, 2016 (English)