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''Newsweek'' is an American weekly online
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co-owned 50 percent each by Dev Pragad, its president and CEO, and Johnathan Davis, who has no operational role at ''Newsweek''. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, it was widely distributed during the 20th century, and had many notable editors-in-chief. The magazine was acquired by
The Washington Post Company Graham Holdings Company (formerly The Washington Post Company) is a diversified American conglomerate holding company. Headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia, and incorporated in Delaware, it was formerly the owner of ''The Washington Post ...
in 1961, and remained under its ownership until 2010. Revenue declines prompted The Washington Post Company to sell it, in August 2010, to the audio pioneer
Sidney Harman Sidney Harman (August 4, 1918 – April 12, 2011) was a Canadian-born American engineer and businessman active in education, government, industry, and publishing. He was the Chairman Emeritus of Harman International Industries, Inc. A co-fo ...
for a purchase price of one dollar and an assumption of the magazine's liabilities. Later that year, ''Newsweek'' merged with the news and opinion website ''
The Daily Beast ''The Daily Beast'' is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture. It was founded in 2008. It has been characterized as a "high-end tabloid" by Noah Shachtman, the site's editor-in-chief from 2018 to 2021. In a 20 ...
'', forming
The Newsweek Daily Beast Company NewsBeast was an American media company, and owner of ''Newsweek'' and ''The Daily Beast''. It was established in 2010 as a merger between the two media outlets. The company was owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp and the estate of Sidney Harman, with S ...
. ''Newsweek'' was jointly owned by the estate of Harman and the diversified American media and Internet company IAC. ''Newsweek'' continued to experience financial difficulties, which led to the cessation of print publication and a transition to an all-digital format at the end of 2012. In 2013,
IBT Media IBT Media is an American global digital news organization with over 90 million monthly readers, owned by followers of religious leader David Jang. It publishes the '' International Business Times'' and ''Medical Daily'', among others. IBT Media ...
acquired ''Newsweek'' from IAC; the acquisition included the ''Newsweek'' brand and its online publication, but did not include ''The Daily Beast''. IBT Media, which also owns the ''
International Business Times The ''International Business Times'' is an American online news publication that publishes five national editions in four languages. The publication, sometimes called ''IBTimes'' or ''IBT'', offers news, opinion and editorial commentary on busi ...
'', rebranded itself as Newsweek Media Group, and in 2014, relaunched ''Newsweek'' in both print and digital form. In 2018, IBT Media split into two companies, Newsweek Publishing and IBT Media. The split was accomplished one day before the District Attorney of Manhattan indicted Etienne Uzac, the co-owner of IBT Media, on fraud charges. Under ''Newsweeks current co-owner and CEO, Dev Pragad, it is both profitable, with revenue of $60 million, and also growing: between May 2019 and May 2022, its monthly unique visitors increased from about 30 million to 48 million, according to Comscore.


History


Founding and early years (1933–1961)

''News-Week'' was launched in 1933 by
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, a former foreign-news editor for ''
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''. He obtained financial backing from a group of U.S. stockholders "which included
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, of the Cheney silk family,
John Hay Whitney John Hay Whitney (August 17, 1904 – February 8, 1982) was U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the ''New York Herald Tribune'', and president of the Museum of Modern Art. He was a member of the Whitney family. Early life Whit ...
, and
Paul Mellon Paul Mellon (June 11, 1907 – February 1, 1999) was an American philanthropist and an owner/breeder of thoroughbred racehorses. He is one of only five people ever designated an "Exemplar of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall ...
, son of
Andrew W. Mellon Andrew William Mellon (; March 24, 1855 – August 26, 1937), sometimes A. W. Mellon, was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician. From the wealthy Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylv ...
". Paul Mellon's ownership in ''News-Week'' apparently represented "the first attempt of the Mellon family to function journalistically on a national scale". The group of original owners invested around million (equivalent to $million in ). Other large stockholders prior to 1946 were public utilities investment banker Stanley Childs and Wall Street corporate lawyer Wilton Lloyd-Smith. Journalist
Samuel T. Williamson Samuel Thurston Williamson (1891–1962) was an American journalist, biographer, and book reviewer. Williamson co-founded ''Newsweek'' magazine in 1933 and then served as its first editor-in-chief (1933–1938). Early life and education Williamson ...
served as the first editor-in-chief of ''News-Week''. The first issue of the magazine was dated February 17, 1933. Seven
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s from the week's news were printed on the first issue's cover. In 1937 ''News-Week'' merged with the weekly journal ''Today'', which had been founded in 1932 by future New York Governor and diplomat
W. Averell Harriman William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891July 26, 1986), better known as Averell Harriman, was an American Democratic politician, businessman, and diplomat. The son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman, he served as Secretary of Commerce un ...
, and
Vincent Astor William Vincent Astor (November 15, 1891 – February 3, 1959) was an American businessman, philanthropist, and member of the prominent Astor family. Early life Called Vincent, he was born in New York City on November 15, 1891. Astor was the el ...
of the prominent Astor family. As a result of the deal, Harriman and Astor provided $600,000 () in venture capital funds and Vincent Astor became both the chairman of the board and its principal stockholder between 1937 and his death in 1959. In 1937
Malcolm Muir Malcolm Muir (1885 – January 30, 1979) was a U.S. magazine industrialist. Biography Muir was born in New York City. He served as president of McGraw-Hill Publishing from 1928 to 1937. During his tenure as president, he helped create ''Business ...
took over as president and editor-in-chief. He changed the name to ''Newsweek'', emphasized interpretive stories, introduced signed columns, and launched international editions.


Under ''Post'' ownership (1961–2010)

The magazine was purchased by
The Washington Post Company Graham Holdings Company (formerly The Washington Post Company) is a diversified American conglomerate holding company. Headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia, and incorporated in Delaware, it was formerly the owner of ''The Washington Post ...
in 1961. Osborn Elliott was named editor of ''Newsweek'' in 1961 and became the editor-in-chief in 1969. In 1970,
Eleanor Holmes Norton Eleanor Holmes Norton (born June 13, 1937) is an American lawyer and politician serving as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives, representing the District of Columbia since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Ea ...
represented sixty female employees of ''Newsweek'' who had filed a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that ''Newsweek'' had a policy of allowing only men to be reporters. The women won, and ''Newsweek'' agreed to allow women to be reporters. The day the claim was filed, ''Newsweek'' cover article was "Women in Revolt", covering the feminist movement; the article was written by a woman who had been hired on a freelance basis since there were no female reporters at the magazine.
Edward Kosner Edward Kosner (born July 26, 1937)Marquis Who's Who is an American journalist and author who served as the top editor of ''Newsweek'', ''New York'' and ''Esquire'' magazines and the ''New York Daily News''. He is the author of a memoir, ''It's Ne ...
became editor from 1975 to 1979 after directing the magazine's extensive coverage of the
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that led to the resignation of President
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in 1974. Richard M. Smith became chairman in 1998, the year that the magazine inaugurated its "Best High Schools in America" list, a ranking of public
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based on the Challenge Index, which measures the ratio of
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or
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exams taken by students to the number of graduating students that year, regardless of the scores earned by students or the difficulty in graduating. Schools with average SAT scores above 1300 or average ACT scores above 27 are excluded from the list; these are categorized instead as "Public Elite" High Schools. In 2008, there were 17 Public Elites. Smith resigned as board chairman in December 2007.


Restructuring and new owner (2008–2010)

During 20082009, ''Newsweek'' undertook a dramatic business restructuring. Citing difficulties in competing with online news sources to provide unique news in a weekly publication, the magazine refocused its content on opinion and commentary beginning with its May 24, 2009, issue. It shrank its subscriber rate base, from 3.1million to 2.6million in early 2008, to 1.9million in July 2009 and then to 1.5million in January 2010a decline of 50% in one year.
Jon Meacham Jon Ellis Meacham (; born May 20, 1969) is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the current Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021. A former executive editor ...
, Editor-in-chief from 2006 to 2010, described his strategy as "counterintuitive" as it involved discouraging renewals and nearly doubling subscription prices as it sought a more affluent subscriber base for its advertisers. During this period, the magazine also laid off staff. While advertising revenues were down almost 50% compared to the prior year, expenses were also diminished, whereby the publishers hoped ''Newsweek'' would return to profitability. The financial results for 2009 as reported by The Washington Post Company showed that advertising revenue for ''Newsweek'' was down 37% in 2009 and the magazine division reported an operating loss for 2009 of million (equivalent to $ million in ) compared to a loss of million in 2008 (equivalent to $ million in ). During the first quarter of 2010, the magazine lost nearly million (equivalent to $ million in ). By May 2010, ''Newsweek'' had been losing money for the past two years and was put up for sale. The sale attracted international bidders. One bidder was Syrian entrepreneur
Abdulsalam Haykal Abdulsalam Haykal ( ar, عبد السّلام هيكل) (born July 14, 1978, in Damascus) is a Syrian technology and media entrepreneur, who lives and works in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He is the co-founder of Haykal Media, one of the Midd ...
, CEO of Syrian publishing company Haykal Media, who brought together a coalition of Middle Eastern investors with his company. Haykal later claimed his bid was ignored by ''Newsweek'' bankers, Allen & Co. The magazine was sold to audio pioneer
Sidney Harman Sidney Harman (August 4, 1918 – April 12, 2011) was a Canadian-born American engineer and businessman active in education, government, industry, and publishing. He was the Chairman Emeritus of Harman International Industries, Inc. A co-fo ...
on August 2, 2010 for in exchange for assuming the magazine's financial liabilities. Harman's bid was accepted over three competitors. Meacham left the magazine upon completion of the sale. Sidney Harman, a major contributor to Zionist causes, was the husband of
Jane Harman Jane Margaret Lakes Harman (born June 28, 1945) is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1993 to 1999, and from 2001 to 2011; she is a member of the Democratic Party. Harman was the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committ ...
, at that time a member of Congress from California.


Merger with ''The Daily Beast'' (2010–2013)

At the end of 2010, ''Newsweek'' merged with the online publication ''
The Daily Beast ''The Daily Beast'' is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture. It was founded in 2008. It has been characterized as a "high-end tabloid" by Noah Shachtman, the site's editor-in-chief from 2018 to 2021. In a 20 ...
'', following extensive negotiations between the respective proprietors.
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, ''The Daily Beast'' editor-in-chief, became editor of both publications. The new entity,
The Newsweek Daily Beast Company NewsBeast was an American media company, and owner of ''Newsweek'' and ''The Daily Beast''. It was established in 2010 as a merger between the two media outlets. The company was owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp and the estate of Sidney Harman, with S ...
, was 50% owned by
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and 50% by Harman.


Redesign (2011)

''Newsweek'' was redesigned in March 2011. The new ''Newsweek'' moved the "Perspectives" section to the front of the magazine, where it served essentially as a highlight reel of the past week on ''The Daily Beast''. More room was made available in the front of the magazine for columnists, editors, and special guests. A new "News Gallery" section featured two-page spreads of photographs from the week with a brief article accompanying each one. The "NewsBeast" section featured short articles, a brief interview with a newsmaker, and several graphs and charts for quick reading in the style of ''The Daily Beast''. This is where the ''Newsweek'' staple "Conventional Wisdom" was located. Brown retained ''Newsweek'' focus on in-depth, analytical features and original reporting on politics and world affairs, as well as a new focus on longer fashion and pop culture features. A larger culture section named "Omnivore" featured art, music, books, film, theater, food, travel, and television, including a weekly "Books" and "Want" section. The back page was reserved for a "My Favorite Mistake" column written by celebrity guest columnists about a mistake they made that helped shape who they are.


Cessation of print format (2012)

On July 25, 2012, the company operating ''Newsweek'' indicated the publication was likely to go digital to cover its losses and could undergo other changes by the next year.
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, chairman of the conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp, said his firm was looking at options since its partner in the ''Newsweek''/''Daily Beast'' operation had pulled out. At the end of 2012, the company discontinued the American print edition after 80 years of publication, citing the increasing difficulty of maintaining a paper weekly magazine in the face of declining advertising and subscription revenues and increasing costs for print production and distribution. The online edition is named ''Newsweek Global''.


Spin-off to IBT Media, return to print (2013–2018)

In April 2013, IAC chairman and founder Barry Diller stated at the Milken Global Conference that he "wished he hadn't bought" ''Newsweek'' because his company had lost money on the magazine and called the purchase a "mistake" and a "
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". On August 3, 2013,
IBT Media IBT Media is an American global digital news organization with over 90 million monthly readers, owned by followers of religious leader David Jang. It publishes the '' International Business Times'' and ''Medical Daily'', among others. IBT Media ...
acquired ''Newsweek'' from IAC on terms that were not disclosed; the acquisition included the ''Newsweek'' brand and its online publication, but did not include ''The Daily Beast''. On March 7, 2014, IBT Media relaunched a print edition of ''Newsweek'' with a cover story on the alleged creator of
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, which was widely criticized for its lack of substantive evidence. The magazine stood by its story. IBT Media announces that the publication returned to profitability on October 8, 2014. In February 2017, IBT Media appointed Matt McAllester, then editor of ''Newsweek International'', as global editor-in-chief of ''Newsweek''. In January 2018, ''Newsweek'' offices were raided by the
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's office as part of an investigation into co-owner and founder, Etienne Uzac. ''
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'' noted the probe "focused on loans the company took out to purchase the computer equipment", and several ''Newsweek'' reporters were fired after reporting on the issue. Uzac pleaded guilty to fraud and money-laundering in 2020.


Newsweek Publishing LLC (2018–present)

In September 2018, after completing the strategic structural changes introduced in March of the same year, IBT Media spun off ''Newsweek'' into its own entity, Newsweek Publishing LLC, with co-ownership to Dev Pragad and Johnathan Davis of IBT Media. Under current co-owner and CEO Dev Pragad, ''Newsweek'' has made improvements and the company is growing and profitable. According to a profile in
Management Today
', Dev Pragad has spent the past five years leading a remarkable transformation at ''Newsweek''. Profits have been growing healthily since 2018, and the company is without debt for the first time in decades. In 2020, ''Newsweeks website hit 100 million unique monthly readers, up from seven million at the start of 2017. In 2021, its revenues doubled to $60 million and traffic increased to 48 million monthly unique visitors in May 2022 from about 30 million in May 2019 according to Comscore. Dev Pragad was recently profiled in ''Th
CEO Magazine
' regarding the publications turnaround, which was also the subject of a Harvard Business School case study. The case focuses on the challenges Dev Pragad and ''Newsweek''s digital transformation and the actions of its leadership team to turn it into a successful, long-term business.


Circulation and branches

In 2003, worldwide circulation was more than 4 million, including 2.7 million in the U.S; by 2010 it reduced to 1.5 million (with newsstand sales declining to just over 40,000 copies per week). ''Newsweek'' publishes editions in Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Spanish,
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,
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, Turkish, Serbian, as well as an
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''Newsweek International''. ''Russian Newsweek'', published since 2004, was shut in October 2010. '' The Bulletin'' (an Australian weekly until 2008) incorporated an international news section from ''Newsweek''. Based in New York City, the magazine claimed 22 bureaus in 2011: nine in the U.S.: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago/Detroit, Dallas, Miami, Washington, D.C., Boston and San Francisco, and others overseas in London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow,
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,
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, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing,
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,
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, Mexico City and
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. According to a 2015 column in the ''
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'', after returning to print publication, ''Newsweek'' was selling c. 100,000 copies per month, with staff at that time numbering "about 60 editorial staffers", up from a low of "less than 30 editorial staffers" in 2013, but with plans then to grow the number to "close to 100 in the next year".


Controversies


Allegations of sexism

In 1970,
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represented sixty female employees of ''Newsweek'' who had filed a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that ''Newsweek'' had a policy of allowing only men to be reporters. The women won, and ''Newsweek'' agreed to allow women to be reporters. The day the claim was filed, ''Newsweek'' cover article was "Women in Revolt", covering the feminist movement; the article was written by Helen Dudar, a freelancer, in the belief that there were no female writers at the magazine capable of handling the assignment. Those passed over included
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, who had spent five years in Paris as a foreign correspondent. The 1986 cover of ''Newsweek'' featured an article that said "women who weren't married by 40 had a better chance of being killed by a terrorist than of finding a husband". ''Newsweek'' eventually apologized for the story and in 2010 launched a study that discovered 2 in 3 women who were 40 and single in 1986 had married since. The story caused a "wave of anxiety" and some "skepticism" amongst professional and highly educated women in the United States. The article was cited several times in the 1993
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'' starring
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and Meg Ryan. Comparisons have been made with this article and the current rising issues surrounding the social stigma of unwed women in Asia called ''
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''. Former Alaska Governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee
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was featured on the cover of the November 23, 2009, issue of ''Newsweek'', with the caption "How do you Solve a Problem Like Sarah?" featuring an image of Palin in athletic attire and posing. Palin herself, the ''
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'' and other commentators accused ''Newsweek'' of
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for their choice of cover in the November 23, 2009 issue discussing Palin's book, '' Going Rogue: An American Life''. "It's sexist as hell," wrote Lisa Richardson for the ''Los Angeles Times''.
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of ''
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'' called it "the worst case of pictorial sexism aimed at political character assassination ever done by a traditional media outlet". David Brody of
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stated: "This cover should be insulting to women politicians." The cover includes a photo of Palin used in the August 2009 issue of ''
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''. The photographer may have breached his contract with ''Runner's World'' when he permitted its use in ''Newsweek'', as ''Runner's World'' maintained certain rights to the photo until August 2010. It is uncertain, however, whether this particular use of the photo was prohibited. Minnesota Republican Congresswoman and presidential candidate
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was featured on the cover of ''Newsweek'' magazine in August 2011, dubbed "the Queen of Rage". The photo of her was perceived as unflattering, as it portrayed her with a wide eyed expression some said made her look "crazy". Conservative commentator
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called the depiction "sexist", and Sarah Palin denounced the publication. ''Newsweek'' defended the cover's depiction of her, saying its other photos of Bachmann showed similar intensity.


Factual errors

Unlike most large American magazines, ''Newsweek'' has not used fact-checkers since 1996. In 1997, the magazine was forced to recall several hundred thousand copies of a special issue called ''Your Child'', which advised that infants as young as five months old could safely feed themselves zwieback toasts and chunks of raw carrot (to the contrary, both represent a choking hazard in children this young). The error was later attributed to a copy editor who was working on two stories at the same time. In 2017, ''Newsweek'' published a story claiming that the First Lady of Poland refused to shake U.S. President
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's hand; ''
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'' described the assertion as "false". ''Newsweek'' corrected its story. In 2018, ''Newsweek'' ran a story asserting that President Trump had wrongly colored the American flag while visiting a classroom; ''Snopes'' was unable to corroborate the photographic evidence. In August 2018, ''Newsweek'' falsely reported that the Sweden Democrats, a far-right party, could win a majority in the 2018 Swedish parliamentary elections. Polls showed that the party was far away from winning a majority. By September 2018, ''Newsweek'' inaccurate article was still up. ''Newsweek'' journalists have expressed criticism of the editorial quality of its reporting since its change in ownership in 2013. In 2018, former ''Newsweek'' journalist
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wrote in ''
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'' that since being sold to the ''International Business Times'' in 2013 the magazine had "produced some strong journalism and plenty of clickbait before becoming a painful embarrassment to anyone who toiled there in its golden age". Former ''Newsweek'' writer Matthew Cooper criticized ''Newsweek'' for running multiple inaccurate stories in 2018. In November 2022, during the
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in Iran, ''Newsweek'' incorrectly reported that Iran had ordered the execution of over 15,000 protesters. The claim was widely shared on social media, including by actresses
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, Sophie Turner and
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, and Canadian prime minister
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. The number was actually derived from estimates from a United Nations human rights rapporteur and other human rights organizations of how many people were detained in Iran in connection with the protests, and ''Newsweek'' retracted the underlying claim leading to the inference that the people faced a death sentence.


2018 investigation and firings

The
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's office raided ''Newsweek'''s headquarters in
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on January 18, 2018, and seized 18 computer servers as part of an investigation related to the company's finances. IBT, which owned ''Newsweek'' at the time, had been under scrutiny for its ties to David Jang, a South Korean pastor and the leader of a Christian sect called "the Community". In February 2018, under IBT ownership, several ''Newsweek'' staff were fired and some resigned stating that management had tried to interfere in articles about the investigations.


Other

Fareed Zakaria Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (; born 20 January 1964) is an Indian-American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN's ''Fareed Zakaria GPS'' and writes a weekly paid column for ''The Washington Post.'' He has been a columnist ...
, a ''Newsweek'' columnist and editor of ''Newsweek International'', attended a secret meeting on November 29, 2001, with a dozen policy makers, Middle East experts and members of influential policy research organizations that produced a report for President George W. Bush and his cabinet outlining a strategy for dealing with Afghanistan and the Middle East in the aftermath of
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. The meeting was held at the request of Paul D. Wolfowitz, then the
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. The unusual presence of journalists, who also included
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of ''
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'', at such a strategy meeting was revealed in
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's 2006 book '' State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III''. Woodward reported in his book that, according to Kaplan, everyone at the meeting signed confidentiality agreements not to discuss what happened. Zakaria told ''
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'' that he attended the meeting for several hours but did not recall being told that a report for the president would be produced.Julie Bosman
"Secret Iraq Meeting Included Journalists"
. ''
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''. October 9, 2006.
On October 21, 2006, after verification, the ''Times'' published a correction that stated:
An article in Business Day on Oct. 9 about journalists who attended a secret meeting in November 2001 called by Paul D. Wolfowitz, then the deputy secretary of defense, referred incorrectly to the participation of Fareed Zakaria, the editor of ''Newsweek International'' and a ''Newsweek'' columnist. Mr. Zakaria was not told that the meeting would produce a report for the Bush administration, nor did his name appear on the report.
The cover story of the January 15, 2015, issue, titled "What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women" proved controversial, due to both its illustration, described as "the cartoon of a faceless female in spiky red heels, having her dress lifted up by a cursor arrow", and its content, described as "a 5,000-word article on the creepy, sexist culture of the tech industry". Among those offended by the cover were '' Today Show'' co-host
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, who commented "I think it's obscene and just despicable, honestly." ''Newsweek'' editor-in-chief James Impoco explained "We came up with an image that we felt represented what that story said about Silicon Valley ... If people get angry, they should be angry." The article's author,
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, asked, "Where were all these offended people when women like Heidi Roizen published accounts of having a venture capitalist stick her hand in his pants under a table while a deal was being discussed?" In January 1998, ''Newsweek'' reporter
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was the first reporter to investigate allegations of a sexual relationship between U.S. President
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and Monica Lewinsky, but the editors
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the story. The story soon surfaced online in the Drudge Report. In the 2008 U.S. presidential election, the
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campaign wrote a lengthy letter to the editor criticizing a cover story in May 2008. In December 2019, journalist Tareq Haddad said he resigned from ''Newsweek'' when it refused to publish his story about documents published by
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concerning the
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' report into the 2018 Douma chemical attack. Haddad said his information was inconvenient to the U.S. government which had retaliated after the chemical attack. A ''Newsweek'' spokesperson responded that Haddad "pitched a conspiracy theory rather than an idea for objective reporting. ''Newsweek'' editors rejected the pitch." In September 2022,
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published an investigation on press financing in Romania by the political parties in government. In the investigation, the director of ''Newsweek Romania''(Sabin Orcan) has been accused of being paid 8000€ per month (3000€ by PSD and 5000€ by PNL) to publish positive news about the government. After the publication of the investigation, ''Newsweek'' Romania published a large series of articles to denigrate the
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investigation. Newsweek Romania is not owned by Newsweek Publishing but is a license of the brand platform


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Jonathan Alter Jonathan H. Alter (born October 6, 1957) is a liberal American journalist, best-selling author, Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker and television producer who was a columnist and senior editor for ''Newsweek'' magazine from 1983 until 2011. Alt ...
* David Ansen * Pete Axthelm *
Maziar Bahari Maziar Bahari ( fa, مازیار بهاری; born May 25, 1967) is an Iranian-Canadian journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist. He was a reporter for '' Newsweek'' from 1998 to 2011. Bahari was incarcerated by the Iranian government fr ...
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Paul Begala Paul Edward Begala (born May 12, 1961) is an American political consultant and political commentator, best known as the former advisor to President Bill Clinton. Begala was a chief strategist for the 1992 Clinton–Gore campaign, which carried ...
* Arnold Beichman *
Peter Beinart Peter Alexander Beinart (; born February 28, 1971) is an American liberal columnist, journalist, and political commentator. A former editor of ''The New Republic'', he has also written for ''Time'', ''The New York Times'', and ''The New York Revie ...
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Peter Benchley Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author, screenwriter, and ocean activist. He is known for his bestselling novel '' Jaws'' and co-wrote its film adaptation with Carl Gottlieb. Several more of his works ...
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Lester Bernstein Lester Bernstein (July 18, 1920 – Nov. 27, 2014) was an American journalist, newspaper executive, and the former editor-in-chief of ''Newsweek'' from 1979 to 1982. Biography Bernstein was born in The Bronx on July 18, 1920, to Isidore Bernste ...
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Ben Bradlee Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (, 1921 – , 2014) was an American journalist who served as managing editor, then as executive editor of ''The Washington Post'', from 1965 to 1991. He became a public figure when the ''Post'' joined ''The New Y ...
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Dik Browne Richard Arthur Allan Browne (August 11, 1917 – June 4, 1989) was an American cartoonist, best known for writing and drawing ''Hägar the Horrible'' and ''Hi and Lois''. Biography Browne attended Cooper Union and got his start at the ''New York ...
* William Broyles Jr. *
Hal Bruno Harold Robinson "Hal" Bruno, Jr. (October 25, 1928 – November 8, 2011) was an American journalist and political analyst, who worked as the political director of ABC News from 1980 to 1999. He served as the moderator of the 1992 vice preside ...
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Eleanor Clift Eleanor Irene Clift (''née'' Roeloffs; born July 7, 1940) is an American political journalist, television pundit, and author. She is a contributor to MSNBC and blogger for '' The Daily Beast''. She is best known as a regular panelist on '' The ...
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Arnaud de Borchgrave Arnaud Charles Paul Marie Philippe de Borchgrave (26 October 1926 – 15 February 2015) was a Belgian-American journalist who specialized in international politics. Following a long career with the news magazine '' Newsweek'', covering 17 wars ...
* Kenneth G. Crawford * Bill Downs * Joshua DuBois *
Kurt Eichenwald Kurt Alexander Eichenwald (born June 28, 1961) is an American journalist and a ''New York Times'' bestselling author of five books, one of which, '' The Informant'' (2000), was made into a motion picture in 2009. Formerly he was a senior writer ...
* Osborn Elliott *
Niall Ferguson Niall Campbell Ferguson FRSE (; born 18 April 1964)Biography
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* Howard Fineman *
Nikki Finke Nikki Jean Finke (December 16, 1953 – October 9, 2022) was an American blogger, journalist, publisher, and writer. She was a consultant to Penske Business Media LLC and senior editorial contributor for PBM run by media owner Jay Penske. She ...
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Karl Fleming Karl Fleming (August 30, 1927 – August 11, 2012) was an American journalist who made a significant contribution to the Civil Rights Movement through his work for Newsweek magazine in the 1960s. Fleming was born in Newport News, Virginia in 1927. ...
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Lawrence Fried Lawrence Fried (June 28, 1926 – 1983) was an American photo-journalist. He was born to first-generation Jewish Hungarian and Russian parents in New York, N. Y. Fried's work appeared in ''Newsweek'', ''The Saturday Evening Post'', ''The New York T ...
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Milton Friedman Milton Friedman (; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the ...
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David Frum David Jeffrey Frum (; born June 30, 1960) is a Canadian-American political commentator and a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, who is currently a senior editor at ''The Atlantic'' as well as an MSNBC contributor. In 2003, Frum a ...
* Freeman Fulbright * Robin Givhan *
Michelle Goldberg Michelle Goldberg (born 1975)"Michelle Goldberg". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2016. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, January 28, 2017. is an American journalist and author, and an op-ed columnist for '' The New York Ti ...
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Meg Greenfield Mary Ellen Greenfield (December 27, 1930 – May 13, 1999), known as Meg Greenfield, was an American editorial writer who worked for the '' Washington Post'' and '' Newsweek''. She was also a Washington, D.C. insider, known for her wit. Greenfie ...
* Josh Hammer *
Henry Hazlitt Henry Stuart Hazlitt (; November 28, 1894 – July 9, 1993) was an American journalist who wrote about business and economics for such publications as ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''The Nation'', ''The American Mercury'', ''Newsweek'', and '' ...
* Wilder Hobson * Robert Cunningham Humphreys *
Michael Isikoff Michael Isikoff (born June 16, 1952) is an American investigative journalist who is currently the Chief Investigative Correspondent at Yahoo! News. He is the co-author with David Corn of the book titled '' Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Pu ...
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Roger Kahn Roger Kahn (October 31, 1927 – February 6, 2020) was an American author, best known for his 1972 baseball book '' The Boys of Summer''. Biography Roger Kahn was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 31, 1927, to Olga (''née'' Rockow) and ...
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Jack Kroll John Kroll (''ca.'' 1926 – June 8, 2000) was a ''Newsweek'' drama and film critic. His career spanned 37 years – more than half the publication's existence. Biography Kroll was born in Manhattan. His mother was an Earl Carroll showgirl and ...
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Howard Kurtz Howard Alan Kurtz (; born August 1, 1953) is an American journalist and author best known for his coverage of the media. Kurtz is the host of Fox News's '' Media Buzz'' program, the successor to ''Fox News Watch''. He is the former media writer f ...
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Eli Lake Eli Jon Lake is an American journalist and the former senior national security correspondent for ''The Daily Beast'' and ''Newsweek''. Currently, he is a columnist for the Bloomberg View. He has also contributed to CNN, Fox, CSPAN, Charlie R ...
* John Lake * Charles Lane *
John Lardner John Lardner (born 10 May 1972 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a former professional snooker player. His best performance came in the 1999 World Snooker Championship, where he reached the last 32. He reached a peak world ranking of 67th in 2000–0 ...
* Robert K. Massie *
Jon Meacham Jon Ellis Meacham (; born May 20, 1969) is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the current Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021. A former executive editor ...
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Elizabeth Peer Elizabeth Clow Peer Jansson (February 3, 1936 – May 26, 1984), often just Liz Peer, was a pioneering American journalist who worked for ''Newsweek'' from 1958 until her death in 1984. She began her career at ''Newsweek'' as a copy girl, at a ...
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Lynn Povich Lynn Povich (born 1943) is an American journalist. She began her career as a secretary in the Paris Bureau of ''Newsweek'' magazine, rising to become a reporter and writer in New York in the late 1960's. In 1970, she was one of a group of women w ...
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Anna Quindlen Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist. Her '' New York Times'' column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a r ...
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Karl Rove Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is an American Republican political consultant, policy advisor, and lobbyist. He was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff during the George W. Bush administration until his resignation on Augu ...
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Paul Samuelson Paul Anthony Samuelson (May 15, 1915 – December 13, 2009) was an American economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. When awarding the prize in 1970, the Swedish Royal Academies stated that he " ...
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Dick Schaap Richard Jay Schaap (September 27, 1934 – December 21, 2001) was an American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author. Early life and education Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, and raised in Freeport, New York, on Long Island, Schaap began wri ...
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Allan Sloan Allan Sloan (born 1944) is an American journalist, formerly senior editor at large at'' Fortune'' magazine. He is currently a columnist for ''The Washington Post.'' Sloan was born in Brooklyn, New York and is a 1966 graduate of Brooklyn College ...
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Andrew Sullivan Andrew Michael Sullivan (born 10 August 1963) is a British-American author, editor, and blogger. Sullivan is a political commentator, a former editor of ''The New Republic'', and the author or editor of six books. He started a political blog, ' ...
* Ralph de Toledano *
Michael Tomasky Michael John Tomasky (born October 13, 1960) is an American columnist, progressive commentator, and author. He is the editor of ''The New Republic'' and editor in chief of ''Democracy''. He has been a special correspondent for ''Newsweek'', ''T ...
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* Margaret Warner * Mark Whitaker * George Will * Elijah Wolfson *
Fareed Zakaria Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (; born 20 January 1964) is an Indian-American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN's ''Fareed Zakaria GPS'' and writes a weekly paid column for ''The Washington Post.'' He has been a columnist ...
Those who held the positions of president, chairman, or publisher under The Washington Post Company ownership include: *
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* Robert D. Campbell * Peter A. Derow * David Auchincloss * Alan G. Spoon *
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* ''
Newsweek Argentina ''Newsweek Argentina'' is an Argentine monthly news magazine, published as the local edition of ''Newsweek''. Its editorial director was Alex Milberg, and its senior editor was Matías Loewy. History and profile The magazine was inaugurated on Aug ...
'' * ''
Newsweek Pakistan ''Newsweek'' Pakistan is published by AG Publications, a company wholly owned by Associated Group (AG), under license from Newsweek LLC. The licensing agreement with AG Publications follows similar publishing alliances for ''Newsweek'' editions. ...
'' * ''Newsweek'' gay actor controversy * ''
Russky Newsweek ''Russky Newsweek'' (russian: Русский Newsweek, italic=yes) or ''Newsweek Russia'' was a news magazine published in Russia between 2004 and 2010 as the Russian edition of ''Newsweek''. It was the first news magazine of Western origin publi ...
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