Newsweek will switch to an all-digital format beginning in 2013. The new publication will be named Newsweek Global, and it will focus on tablets and online media.
According to an article on MSNBC, Newsweek's decision to stop publishing a print edition after 80 years may be more about its own problems than the state of the magazine industry. By several measures, the magazine business has stabilized since the Great Recession ended three years ago. Because of this, critics say it speaks to the magazine's trouble connecting with and keeping its readers.
The end of the printed pages will affect nearly 1.4 million Newsweek subscribers who get their copy each week in the mail. Newsweek is the second-largest weekly magazine after Time magazine in terms of circulation numbers. Time is down from about 4 million in 2006 to 3.3 million this year.
The last print edition of the weekly news magazine will appear December 31st.
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