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When I saw a wire service photo several hours later of Time’s cover, a standard news shot of Diana, I knew our issue would crush theirs on the newsstand. One of my photo editors, a friend of Demarchelier’s, went to his apartment, woke him up and persuaded him to give us the negative. I wanted a striking image for the cover and remembered a black and white photo of a short-haired Diana that had been taken by the fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier. We held the presses, threw out the issue we had just put to bed and came back into the office in the wee hours to publish a new one. One of those moments came for me the weekend that Princess Diana died in 1997. A crudely Photoshopped cover of Martha Stewart emerging from behind a curtain after her brief prison stint for obstruction of justice and making false statements to investigators comes to mind. Make a dumb call and you had to live with it for a whole week. It’s why, for instance, I still hear people talk about the cover story that I asked Fareed Zakaria, my former colleague at Newsweek (and now at CNN), to write after 9/11 called “Why They Hate Us.” Make a smart call on the cover, and it stayed on newsstands and coffee tables for an entire week for readers to admire and discuss.

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In my era, as competition from more instant news on cable TV and the Web became ever more intense, it was also the one area where our slowpoke frequency could work in our favor. The cover is the calling card of any magazine, but it was particularly true for newsmagazines, since we put out a new issue every week and the range of subjects we had to choose from was so broad. Besides the amazingly talented colleagues I worked with there, I miss picking the cover.

He told Press Gazette he had decided to move into print because: “There is no money to be made in online general news websites.When people ask me if there’s anything I miss about my old job at Newsweek, it’s an easy answer. These include: The Macclesfield Express, which launched with an eight-strong team in September after initial success online. The move from digital to print mirrors the example of a number of UK local media websites over the last year.

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Once we pick a subject we'll send someone in with full support to bring back the story.' He told The Guardian that he has an eight-strong editorial team: 'We're going to make heavy use of story 'scouts' who will alert us to subjects of interest that are under the radar. The US edition will be available from this Friday, and a London-based European edition – edited by former Daily Express editor Richard Addis, is expected in the coming weeks selling for £4.95. IBT plans to print 70,000 copies in the US and sell them for $7.99. Newsweek editor in chief Jim Impoco told the New York Times: “I had heard it would not be viable, but then I looked into it and decided we could sell some copies for significantly more than it cost to make.” The Washington Post Company sold Newsweek to Sidney Harman for $1 in 2010 as he took on $40m in liabilities.Īt the end of 2010 it merged with Tina Brown-edited website The Daily Beast and she edited both titles, but failed in her efforts to reinvent the title. Print circulation of Newsweek shrank from over 3m in 2007 to 1.5m in 2012. Now, after boosting the web traffic, IBT Media have announced plans to bring back the print edition as of this Friday. Ma'Almost everyone' on IB Times UK newsdesk facing redundancy as UK and US teams merge, sources say