Old print journalists will never turn the pages of a Newsweek issue again…
but Aaron Kushner, the new, first-time owner of the Orange County Register, is defying conventional wisdom by spending heavily to expand the printed edition and playing down digital formats.
Orange County Register Owner Aaron Kushner Defies Trend To Shrink Costs
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The Newsweek cover story was written by Andrew Sullivan, the popular — and openly gay — political blogger.
Obama, Sullivan writes, “had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family.”
Bob Staake, the artist who created “Spectrum of Light,” the New Yorker cover:
I am honored to be doing this cover. It’s a celebratory moment for our country, and that’s what I tried to capture. (I don’t especially like those rainbow colors, but they are what they are—I had to use them.) I wanted to celebrate the bravery of the President’s statement—a statement long overdue—but all the more appreciated in this political year. We are on the right side of history.”
A controversial Newsweek cover story by Katie Roiphe concludes that as women gain power in the workplace, they want to be dominated in the bedroom. The magazine article looks at everything from the bestselling erotic BDSM novel “Fifty Shades of Grey” to HBO’s new series “Girls” and concludes sexual domination is in vogue. What do you say?
Newsweek is planning an issue marking the return of “Mad Men” in March by adopting the magazine’s 1960s design.
Editor Tina Brown said she thought of the idea while talking with Matthew Weiner, creator and executive producer of “Mad Men,” about ways to treat its season-five premiere on March 25.
Brown in Ad Age:
Newsweek was very much on the cultural forefront at the time of the show. It covered the events that are so much of the background for the show’s drama — the burgeoning civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement, the Vietnam War. That was Newsweek’s cutting-edge beat and its flourishing journalistic subject. So it seemed like a wonderful marriage in a sense to take that and apply it to the magazine, to make the magazine an homage to the period.”
The “Mad Men”-themed issue, which will be dated March 19, will include a cover story on the series and a feature on the role of advertising in U.S. culture.
Woody Allen’s latest movie, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” is a breezy romance, but the 72-year-old director comes across as one glum dude in a feature story in the current Newsweek. Allen says he’s terrified of the void, the “meaningless flicker” of life. He’s also very superstitious — he cuts bananas into SEVEN pieces, fearing that something bad will happen if he cuts the fruit into six or eight pieces.
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