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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Tina Brown

1. October 18, 2012 03:48 PM

   Newsweek is dead … long live Newsweek?

   The end of its print run may not be all doom and gloom

   By Sara Morrison

   As has been reported all over the place today, Newsweek/The Daily Beast editor in chief Tina Brown and CEO Baba Shetty announced that, after 79 years, the final print version of Newsweek will hit newsstands on December 31. As of the new year, the magazine will transition to a digital-only format called Newsweek Global, available via paid subscription. To many,...

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2. March 8, 2011 02:09 PM

   Newsweek’s Redesign Gets Two Thumbs Down

   Is the harsh reaction from media critics warranted?

   By The Editors

   The newly redesigned Newsweek launched yesterday, and as soon as the first images appeared online, the issue quickly became a media-critic punching bag. “Yawn,” wrote Fox Nation. Choire Sicha had the day’s most oft-quoted put-down on The Awl: “This is going to electrify the waiting rooms of dentists all over Scarsdale.” Later in the afternoon, Jack Shafer declared of the...

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3. August 21, 2012 11:00 AM

   Newsweek’s Niall Ferguson debacle

   A misleading cover story gets the wrong kind of buzz for Tina Brown's mag

   By Ryan Chittum

   It's been a long time since I've seen a cover story so comprehensively demolished as Newsweek's disengenuous anti-Obama piece by Harvard's Niall Ferguson, who puts together a greatest-hits compilation of the right's economic smears of the past three-plus years. As I write this, Niall Ferguson's Newsweek cover piece on why Obama's presidency has failed has racked up 13,351 comments, 6,130...

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4. March 1, 2011 02:00 PM

   Frank Rich Leaves the Times After Three Decades

   Is his move part of an exodus from legacy media to the web?

   By The Editors

   Veteran Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz raised a ruckus last fall when he made the move to Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast. “The end of an era,” wrote John Podhoretz of the news. But, of course, Kurtz wouldn’t be the last; in fact, he seems to have set a trend. On Sunday, Tina Brown announced that Andrew Sullivan, proprietor of...

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5. April 16, 2012 02:53 PM

   Katie Roiphe’s Click Bait Win is a Discourse Fail

   The inflammatory essayist angers the feminist twitterverse but doesn't add any value to public discourse

   By Kira Goldenberg

   Among the clusters of folks I follow on Twitter—media critics, yoga bloggers, friends—the group that’s consistently most entertaining is the feminist journalists (sorry, friends). One of my favorite Internet things is their reaction to any public assertion that can be construed as anti-woman. The feminist journos commence intelligently snarking the original comment until they overtake the original narrative (disclosure: I...

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6. September 17, 2012 04:11 PM

   The wrong kind of attention

   Newsweek's focus on provocative covers isn't a solid digital-age strategy

   By Kira Goldenberg

   Talking about the relevance of magazine cover images feels comparable to mentioning that a newspaper story was “above the fold”—both are print media conventions with little significance in an age when most folks consume media digitally. And yet, week after week, Newsweek’s cover manages to enter the conversation, mostly as a focal point for criticism among media watchers and on...

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7. May 9, 2011 12:13 PM

   Tina, Tina Everywhere

   By Joel Meares

   Peter Stevenson’s 5,000-word New York Times magazine profile of wunderkind “editrix” Tina Brown is a well-written, well-reported, breezy-enough read. It’s notable mostly for painting Brown with a very light touch—her oft-derided time at The New Yorker’s helm is glossed over (“Brown’s willingness to publish glitzy, less-than-stellar articles galled traditionalists…”)—as well as for its thumbs-up assessment of her new Newsweek (“early...

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8. June 28, 2011 10:34 AM

   Weekend at Di’s

   By Joel Meares

   Somebody dial 911. Quickly. There’s been a gas leak at the Newsbeast offices. There must have been. It is the only explanation for this: And this: the article I still refuse to believe is inside, penned by a clearly propane-peaking Tina Brown. There is no doubt she would have kept her chin taut with strategic Botox shots and her...

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9. November 16, 2010 12:29 PM

   Whither NewsBeast?

   What do you think of the Daily Beast/Newsweek merge?

   By The Editors

   News of the merger deal between IAC’s The Daily Beast and Sidney Harman’s Newsweek lit up the Internet last Friday. Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that, according to the new company’s CEO, Stephen Colvin, Newsweek.com as a separate web domain would cease to exist, its content to be folded into the Beast site. Newsweek.com staffers took to...

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