The Newsweek cover encapsulates its demise: not by accurately identifying the killer of its print edition, but by failing, again, to do so.
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Joshua Treviño (@jstrevino) December 23, 2012Newsweek’s last print edition shows its transition from paper to digital with a hashtag on the cover.
COVER: Newsweek's last print issue before we go all-digital features a hashtag on the cover: #LastPrintIssue! http://t.co/H25xS0YX—
(@Newsweek) December 23, 2012
#RIP Newsweek—
(@der_terrorist) December 23, 2012
To put it more bluntly: digital didn't kill Newsweek in print; Newsweek being a generally bad print publication killed Newsweek in print.—
Joshua Treviño (@jstrevino) December 23, 2012
What I've seen of Newsweek final issue is an exercise in solipsism. And they wonder why it couldn't last.—
Paul Smalera (@smalera) December 23, 2012
Newsweek RIP as print this week. Those of us who are readers and writers are sad. My dream was to write a My Turn. Digital only.—
Wylie Jones (@Wylieknowords) December 23, 2012
While Newsweek has its issues, the move to all-digital material is another symptom of the slow death of print journalism.