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''Newsweek'' is an American weekly
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based in
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. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, it was widely distributed during the 20th century and has had many notable editors-in-chief. It is currently co-owned by
Dev Pragad Dev Pragad (born 1984) is the British-American president and CEO of ''Newsweek''. He is also co-owner of ''Newsweek'' acquiring a half-interest in 2018. Under his tenure, ''Newsweek'' returned to profitability and reaches 100 million readers a m ...
, the president and
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(CEO), and Johnathan Davis, who sits on the board; each owns 50% of the company. In August 2010, revenue decline prompted
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 Po ...
to sell ''Newsweek'' to the audio pioneer
Sidney Harman Sidney Mortimer Harman (August 4, 1918 – April 12, 2011) was a Canadian-born American engineer, businessman, manager and philanthropist active in electronics, education, government, industry, and publishing. Harman made “high-fidelity ...
for one US 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. Founded in 2008, the website is owned by IAC Inc. It has been characterized as a "high-end tabloid" by Noah Shachtman, the site's editor-in-chief ...
'', 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 ...
, later called ''NewsBeast''. ''Newsweek'' was jointly owned by the estate of Harman and the company IAC. ''Newsweek'' continued to experience financial difficulties, leading to the suspension of print publication 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 ''
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'', 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
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of Manhattan indicted Etienne Uzac, the co-owner of IBT Media, on fraud charges. Under ''Newsweek''s current co-owner and CEO, Dev Pragad, ''Newsweek'' has been growing 20–30% per year; according to
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, its monthly unique visitors rose from about 30 million to 48 million between May 2019 and May 2022. Since Pragad became CEO in 2016, readership has grown to 100 million readers per month. The net worth of Newsweek Publishing under Dev Pragad exceeds $300 million. This is the highest number of readers and net worth in its 90-year history. The
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published a case study of the company in 2021.


History


Founding and early years (1933–1961)

''News-Week'' was launched in 1933 by Thomas J. C. Martyn, 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 an American venture capitalist, sportsman, philanthropist, newspaper publisher, film producer and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the '' New ...
, and
Paul Mellon Paul Mellon (June 11, 1907 – February 2, 1999) was an American philanthropist and a horse breeding, breeder of thoroughbred horse racing, racehorses. He is one of only five people ever designated an "Exemplar of Racing" by the National Muse ...
, son of Andrew W. Mellon". Paul Mellon's ownership in ''News-Week'' marked "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 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) was an American politician, businessman, and diplomat. He was a founder of Harriman & Co. which merged with the older Brown Brothers to form the Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. investment ...
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 eld ...
of the prominent
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. 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 took over as president and editor-in-chief. He changed the name of the magazine 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 Po ...
in 1961.
Osborn Elliott Osborn Elliott (October 25, 1924 – September 28, 2008) was the editor of ''Newsweek'' magazine for sixteen years between 1961 and 1976. Elliott is credited with transforming ''Newsweek'' from a staid publication into a modern rival of ''Time' ...
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 politician, lawyer, and human rights activist. Norton is a congressional delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, where she has represented the District of Columbia since 1991 as ...
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 the suit with the support of the
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(ACLU) 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 1937) 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 News to Me,'' published ...
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. Also in 1998, the magazine inaugurated its "Best High Schools in America" list, a ranking of public
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based on the
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, 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
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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 2008–2009, ''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 issue from May 24, 2009. Its subscriber base shrank 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 Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021. A former executive editor and execut ...
, editor-in-chief from 2006 to 2010, described his strategy as "counterintuitive" as it involved discouraging subscription 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 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 Po ...
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 Abdul Salam Haykal, 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 Mortimer Harman (August 4, 1918 – April 12, 2011) was a Canadian-born American engineer, businessman, manager and philanthropist active in electronics, education, government, industry, and publishing. Harman made “high-fidelity ...
on August 2, 2010, for in exchange for assuming the magazine's financial liabilities. Harman's bid was accepted over three competitors. Jon Meacham left the magazine upon completion of the sale. Sidney Harman was the husband of
Jane Harman Jane Margaret Harman (née Lakes, June 28, 1945) is an American former politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1993 to 1999 and again from 2001 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the ranking member on the ...
, 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. Founded in 2008, the website is owned by IAC Inc. It has been characterized as a "high-end tabloid" by Noah Shachtman, the site's editor-in-chief ...
'', following extensive negotiations between the respective proprietors.
Tina Brown Christina Hambley Brown, Lady Evans (born in England on 21 November 1953), is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, broadcaster, and author, with dual British/United States citizenship. She is the former editor in chief of '' Tatler'' (197 ...
, ''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 as a summary of the past week's news reported on by ''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.
Barry Diller Barry Charles Diller (born February 2, 1942) is an American billionaire businessman. He is chairman and senior executive of IAC and Expedia Group and founded the Fox Broadcasting Company with Rupert Murdoch and USA Broadcasting. Diller was ind ...
, 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 was renamed ''Newsweek Global''.


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

In April 2013, IAC chairman and founder
Barry Diller Barry Charles Diller (born February 2, 1942) is an American billionaire businessman. He is chairman and senior executive of IAC and Expedia Group and founded the Fox Broadcasting Company with Rupert Murdoch and USA Broadcasting. Diller was ind ...
said 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 " fool's errand". 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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that was criticized for lacking substantive evidence. The magazine stood by its story. IBT Media announced 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
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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 Dev Pragad (born 1984) is the British-American president and CEO of ''Newsweek''. He is also co-owner of ''Newsweek'' acquiring a half-interest in 2018. Under his tenure, ''Newsweek'' returned to profitability and reaches 100 million readers a m ...
and Johnathan Davis of IBT Media. 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 $75 million and traffic increased to 48 million monthly unique visitors in May 2022 from about 30 million in May 2019 according to Comscore. The "rebirth" of ''Newsweek'' was the subject of a study by
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. In September 2023, ''Newsweek'' announced it would be making use of
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in its operations. Its AI policy states that generative AI can be used in "writing, research, editing, and other core journalism functions" as long as journalists are involved throughout the process. In 2024, it rolled out an AI video production tool and started hiring an AI-focused
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team. In 2024, ''Newsweek'' reported $90 million in revenue and a 20% profit margin, marking a significant commercial turnaround under CEO and co-owner Dev Pragad. Revenue more than quadrupled from $20 million that year, when the company operated at a 10% loss. Profitability has been consistent since 2019 on an
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basis, with margins exceeding 20% since 2022. The company credits its success to a robust digital advertising business, which accounted for 63% of revenue in 2024 (80% of which came from programmatic channels and 20% from direct sales). Pragad attributes growth to a data-driven editorial strategy focused on audience preferences, in contrast to declining readership trends across much of the news industry. In 2025, ''Newsweek'' reported that, according to Comscore, its U.S. readership increased by 45 percent compared to the previous year. The publication was ranked No. 2 in overall growth in the U.S. by Similarweb’s annual Digital 100 Report for 2024. To further diversify revenue, ''Newsweek'' has expanded into business-to-business advertising and launched an events division in 2023. It has also built a rankings division, its fastest-growing segment in the past two years, which is monetized through
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and which contributed 13% of total revenue in 2024. Content syndication added another 16%. In June 2025, ''Newsweek'' acquired Adprime, an adtech firm specializing in healthcare marketing, as part of its expansion into the health sector. The acquisition included a demand-side platform and data services intended to support targeted advertising across ''Newsweek'''s healthcare content. The move contrasted with broader industry trends of divestment from adtech and aligned with ''Newsweek'''s strategy to increase business-to-business revenue through its health vertical.


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
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, as well as an
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''Newsweek International''. ''Russian Newsweek'', published since 2004, was shuttered 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.:
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, and others overseas in
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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 freelancer Helen Dudar in the belief that there were no female writers at the magazine capable of handling the assignment. Those passed over included Elizabeth Peer, who had spent five years in Paris as a foreign correspondent. On June 2, 1986, ''Newsweek'' published a cover story titled "The Marriage Crunch", which claimed that "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 two in three 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 film ''
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'', starring
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and
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. 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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''. On November 23, 2009, former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee
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was featured on the cover of ''Newsweek'', with the caption "How do you solve a problem Like Sarah?", and an image of Palin posing in athletic attire. Palin herself and other commentators accused ''Newsweek'' of
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for their choice of cover for the issue, which discussed Palin's book, '' Going Rogue: An American Life''. "It's sexist as hell," wrote Lisa Richardson for the ''
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''. Taylor Marsh 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. In August 2011, Minnesota Republican Congresswoman and presidential candidate
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was featured on the cover of ''Newsweek'', with the caption "the Queen of Rage". The photo of her was perceived as unflattering, as it portrayed her with a wide-eyed expression that 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 Bachmann, saying its other photos of her showed similar intensity. In June 2024, ''Newsweek'' published an opinion piece with the title "Taylor Swift Is Not a Good Role Model", which claimed that American singer-songwriter
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was a bad role model for young girls due to being unmarried, childless and having been in multiple relationships. The article was condemned as sexist, including by tennis player
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.


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
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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; fact-checking website ''
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'' described the assertion as "false". ''Newsweek'' corrected its story. In 2018, ''Newsweek'' ran a story alleging that then-President
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had colored the American flag incorrectly while visiting a classroom; ''Snopes'' was unable to corroborate the photographic evidence. In August 2018, ''Newsweek'' incorrectly reported that the
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, a
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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'' article was still up. 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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,
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and
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, and Canadian prime minister
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. The number was actually derived from estimates from a
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and other
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of how many people were detained in Iran in connection with the protests, and ''Newsweek'' later retracted the underlying claim leading to the inference that the people faced a death sentence. In October 2023, ''Newsweek'' incorrectly reported that a viral video of U.S. senator
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falling down a flight of stairs while exiting an airplane had been recorded that month. The reporting by ''Newsweek'' drew comparisons to Tuberville's criticism of then-President
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similarly tripping on stairways. In reality, the video highlighted by ''Newsweek'' was filmed in 2014, nine years prior, before Tuberville's tenure as senator.


2018 investigation and firings

On January 18, 2018, the
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's office raided ''Newsweek'''s headquarters in
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and seized 18 computer servers as part of an investigation related to the company's finances. IBT, then the owner of ''Newsweek'', 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, several ''Newsweek'' staff were fired, and some resigned stating that management had tried to interfere in articles about the investigations.


Other

On November 29, 2001,
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, a ''Newsweek'' columnist and editor of ''Newsweek International'', attended a secret meeting with a dozen policy makers, Middle East experts and members of influential policy research organizations that produced a report for then-President
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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 Robert D. Kaplan 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 October 9 about journalists who attended a secret meeting in November 2001 called by Paul D. Wolfowitz, then Deputy Secretary of Defense, incorrectly referenced Fareed Zakaria, editor of ''Newsweek International'' and a ''Newsweek'' columnist, regarding his participation. 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 from January 15, 2015, titled "What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women", caused controversy, 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 ''
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'' 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
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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 then-U.S. President
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and
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, but the editors spiked the story. The story soon surfaced online in the
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. In the
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, the
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campaign wrote a lengthy letter to the editor criticizing a cover story in May 2008. ''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 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
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. 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 August 2020,
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professor John C. Eastman wrote a ''Newsweek'' op-ed asking if Kamala Harris's parents were U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents at the time of her birth or if they were temporary visitors. He then stated that if they were temporary visitors, then "under the 14th Amendment as originally understood", she would not be considered a U.S. citizen and would not be eligible for her then-current position in the Senate. The op-ed resulted in the spread of 'birther-ism' conspiracy theories surrounding Kamala Harris. ''Newsweek'' later apologized for the op-ed, saying they had "entirely failed to anticipate the ways in which the essay would be interpreted, distorted and weaponized" and that their publication of it "was intended to explore a minority legal argument about the definition of who is a 'natural-born citizen' in the United States." In December 2021, comedian
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criticized Newsweek, declaring in a podcast titled "Clickbait is Arson," that its "business model is ... arson", after the magazine reported that he accused
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author
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of antisemitism. In September 2022, ''Recorder'' published an investigation on press financing in Romania by the political parties in government. In the investigation, it accused ''Newsweek Romania'' of being paid €8,000 per month (€3,000 by Payment Services directive (PSD) and €5,000 by PNL) to publish positive articles about the government. After the publication of the investigation, ''Newsweek Romania'' published an investigation about ''Recorder''s owner who is the son of a former communist ambassador and also a nephew of a former KGB general. In response, ''Recorders journalists accused ''Newsweek Romania'' of denigrating them. In November 2022, the
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reported that ''Newsweek'' had "taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders" since it hired conservative political activist Josh Hammer as
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. It noted the magazine's elevation of conspiracy theorists, publication of conspiracy theories about
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, views such as support for a ban on all legal immigration to the United States and denying adults access to trans-affirming medical care, and failure to disclose potential
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in the content published on Hammer's opinion section and podcast.


Contributors and staff members

Notable contributors or employees have included: * Shana Alexander *
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*
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* Pete Axthelm * Maziar Bahari *
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* Arnold Beichman *
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* Lester Bernstein *
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* Hal Bruno *
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* Karl Fleming *
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* Michelle Goldberg * Meg Greenfield * Josh Hammer *
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* Wilder Hobson * Robert Cunningham Humphreys *
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Roger Kahn Roger Kahn (October 31, 1927 – February 6, 2020) was an American journalist and 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 ...
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Jack Kroll John Kroll (''ca.'' 1926 – June 8, 2000) was an American drama and film critic. His career at ''Newsweek'' spanned 37 years—more than half the publication's existence. Biography Kroll was born in Manhattan. His mother was an Earl Carroll sho ...
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Howard Kurtz Howard Alan Kurtz (; born August 1, 1953) is an American journalist and author and host of '' Media Buzz'' on Fox News. He is the former media writer for ''The Washington Post'' and the former Washington bureau chief for ''The Daily Beast''. He h ...
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Jon Meacham Jon Ellis Meacham (; born May 20, 1969) is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021. A former executive editor and execut ...
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Dev Pragad Dev Pragad (born 1984) is the British-American president and CEO of ''Newsweek''. He is also co-owner of ''Newsweek'' acquiring a half-interest in 2018. Under his tenure, ''Newsweek'' returned to profitability and reaches 100 million readers a m ...
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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. Quindlen began her journalism career in 197 ...
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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 August ...
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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 "h ...
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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 w ...
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Allan Sloan Allan Sloan (born 1944) is an American journalist, formerly a senior editor at large at'' Fortune'' magazine. He subsequently became a business columnist on contract for ''The Washington Post'', and since the start of 2023 has been self-employed. ...
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Andrew Sullivan Andrew Michael Sullivan (born 10 August 1963) is a British-American political commentator. Sullivan is a former editor of ''The New Republic'', and the author or editor of six books. He started a political blog, ''The Daily Dish'', in 2000, and ...
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Ralph de Toledano Ralph de Toledano (August 17, 1916 – February 3, 2007) was an American writer in the Conservatism in the United States, conservative movement in the United States throughout the second half of the 20th century. A friend of Richard Nixon, he was ...
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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'', '' Th ...
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Margaret Warner Margaret Garrard Warner (born February 12, 1950) is a former senior correspondent for '' The PBS NewsHour''. Before joining the ''NewsHour'' in 1993, she was a reporter for ''The Wall Street Journal'', '' The San Diego Union-Tribune'', the '' Co ...
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Arick Wierson Arick Wierson (born November 23, 1971) is an American columnist who writes on politics and business for CNN and Newsweek. He is also a regular contributor to several other major US publications including ''Vice'', ''The New York Observer'', '' ...
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George Will George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is an American libertarian conservative writer and political commentator. He writes columns for ''The Washington Post'' on a regular basis and provides commentary for '' NewsNation''. In 1986, ''The Wall ...
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Fareed Zakaria Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (; born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-born 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 c ...
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Publications

Newsweek publishes World's Best Hospitals annually, a ranking of the best hospitals in 20 countries based on the opinions of
medical professionals A health professional, healthcare professional (HCP), or healthcare worker (sometimes abbreviated as HCW) is a provider of health care treatment and advice based on formal training and experience. The field includes those who work as a nurse, physi ...
, patient survey results and key medical performance indicators. The countries monitored are the United States, Canada, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Israel, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, India, Thailand, Australia, Argentina, and Brazil.


See also

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List of magazines by circulation The following list of the magazines in the world by circulation is based upon the number of copies distributed, on average, for each issue. Lists by continent and country The following are lists of magazines from selected countries/regions, ...
* '' Newsweek Argentina'' * ''
Newsweek Pakistan ''Newsweek Pakistan'' was a news magazine published by AG Publications, a company wholly owned by Associated Group (AG), under license from Newsweek Publishing LLC. The licensing agreement with AG Publications followed similar publishing allia ...
'' * ''Newsweek'' gay actor controversy * '' Russky Newsweek''


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