Mediaweek: Newsweek.com Explores Amazon Cloud Computing
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 09:40
"Newsweek … is outsourcing its Web site hosting duties to Amazon, joining a small but growing number of companies experimenting with cloud computing."
The Atlantic: The Newsweekly’s Last Stand
Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 19:29
"The Economist prides itself on cleverly distilling the world into a reasonably compact survey. Another word for this is blogging, or at least what blogging might be after it matures—meaning, after it transcends its current status as a free-fire zone and settles into a more comprehensive system of gathering and presenting information. As a result, although its self-marketing subtly sells a kind of sleek, mid-last-century Concorde-flying sangfroid, The Economist has reached its current level of influence and importance because it is, in every sense of the word, a true global digest for an age when the amount of undigested, undigestible information online continues to metastasize. And that’s a very good place to be in 2009. … Tellingly, the very lo-fi digest The Week, which has copped The Economist’s attitude without any real reporting or analysis at all, is thriving as well."
magCulture.com: Newsweek relaunch
Thursday, 21 May 2009, 07:43
Jeremy Leslie on the redesigned Newsweek: "This is a mess of a redesign, done in response to a more open and ambitious brief than Time’s Luke Hayman revamp but falling massively short of that project. Everything about it says ‘unfinished’ to me. "
Barack Obama on Newsweek
Sunday, 17 May 2009, 10:27
Newsweek brands its entity landing pages "Newsweekopedia": "With Newsweekopedia, we collect all the news coverage, commentary, photography and multimedia stories published by Newsweek over the years on subjects ranging from Abba to Zoology. Each page of this unmatched knowledge resource combines the world-class content with your comments and best coverage from other news sites."
Newsweek – National News, World News, Health, Technology, Entertainment and more…
Friday, 15 May 2009, 18:01
The new Newsweek website. Note the Twitter widget that encourages input as well as giving output…
FT.com: Newsweek to turn new page with relaunch
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 10:20
"A prototype of the redesign that will be launched in early May is a cleaner take on the old, with more white space and bolder photographs. The launch will coincide with a relaunch of Newsweek.com that will replace wire copy with links to the best sources of online news, even if published by rivals. … Newsweek intends to court a high-end audience seeking in-depth commentary and reporting."
Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 23:27
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"Newsweek is to announce today that it is starting the equivalent of a weekly political television show on its Web site, newsweek.com, and that it has hired a producer from MSNBC to oversee it."
Monday, 15 October 2007, 16:35
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"Newsweek on Monday will unveil a sweeping redesign of the magazine and its Web site while at the same time formally ending its seven-year distribution agreement with MSNBC.com."
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 08:33
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Ex-Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker (now of WPNI) tells Forbes.com about how to prepare a magazine for a web only audience. Um. Yes.
