On December 31st, Newsweek magazine will end its print run, shifting its content to an online-only format called Newsweek Global. It's now posted the cover of the final issue on Twitter, showing a stark black and white photograph of the old Newsweek Building in New York — which the magazine itself vacated in 1994. While it's eye-catching and pretty timeless, Newsweek couldn't seem to resist topping the whole thing off with a hashtag, apparently either hoping people will take to Twitter to post about the #LastPrintIssue or just unable to resist a bid for relevancy.
On sister site The Daily Beast, senior writer Andrew Romano has published an oral history of the iconic magazine, which he lauds as "a bygone form of group journalism...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/23/3797970/newsweek-ends-its-80-year-print-run-with-a-hashtagged-cover
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