Whatever happened to that venerable weekly magazine we all knew as Newsweek? The magazine was published in the United States from 1933 to Dec. 31, 2012. The cause of its demise was the continued and ever-growing encroachment of e-media into its readership base. Many of us saw this coming. In an article back in 2008, I wrote, “the fact that mass print media have been around for well over 500 years … does in and of itself lend it an inertia of motion.”
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E-Media Continue to Erode Print Media
Posted by: Theodore F. di Stefano September 13, 2013 05:00 AMWhatever happened to that venerable weekly magazine we all knew as Newsweek? The magazine was published in the United States from 1933 to Dec. 31, 2012. The cause of its demise was the continued and ever-growing encroachment of e-media into its readership base. Many of us saw this coming. In an article back in 2008, I wrote, “the fact that mass print media have been around for well over 500 years … does in and of itself lend it an inertia of motion.”