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| US News & World Report abandons print |
| 2008-11-05 |
| US News & World Report, long the number three newsmagazine in the United States behind Time and Newsweek, has become the latest US media outlet to abandon print for the Web. The move to become an Internet-focused publication was announced to US News employees in a memorandum on Tuesday from management of the magazine. "We're accelerating this transformation in response to our rapid growth online where our audience is now about 7 million uniques a month and growing," US News president Bill Holiber and editor Brian Kelly said in the memo. "For all of you who have worked so hard to make this transition possible, say good-bye to Web 2.0 and welcome to Journalism 5.0," they added. ...and, for a lot of you, say goodbye to your jobs. Like other US magazines and newspapers, US News has been losing readership and advertising revenue to online media for years. The memo did not mention specific plans for the print edition, which has already gone this year from a weekly to a biweekly format, but The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that US News would now only publish once a month. The Post added that the monthly print edition would also be entirely devoted to consumer guides and not news. US News publishes popular annual rankings on such topics as America's "best colleges" and "best hospitals." Earlier this year, US News announced it was "moving away from a weekly magazine with a discrete website to become a multi-platform digital publisher of news you can use and analysis." The shift to the Web by US News comes just a week after the 100-year-old Christian Science Monitor announced plans to end its daily print edition and become the first national US newspaper to become entirely Web-based. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #6 Used to look forward to gettting it just to read John Leo. He's where I first learned about Blogging. He mentioned Scrappleface, I searched it on the net, found others along the way.... and well...I've been sort of an addict since. |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2008-11-05 21:56 |
| #5 I forgot what I was going to say. |
| Posted by: Gerthudion Clert2786 2008-11-05 21:41 |
| #4 Adios! Next? |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2008-11-05 20:18 |
| #3 The monthly print publication consists of their guides and ratings, so it isn't inconsistent with what he said. That noted, USN&WR has been swirling the drain for at least a decade. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-11-05 17:50 |
| #2 "abandons print" = "only publish once a month" No wonder they are the #3 newsmagazine, they don't know the meaning of the words they use. |
| Posted by: Scott R 2008-11-05 17:46 |
| #1 O.K. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-11-05 17:21 |