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Newsweek Shows Beggars Can Be Choosers
The Washington Post Co. probably isn't going to get much more than a token $1 when it sells Newsweek. But it's being awfully choosy about where that dollar comes from. Continue reading Newsweek Shows Beggars Can Be Choosers ...
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Hi-Fi Magnate Sidney Harmon Frontrunner in Bids for Newsweek...
paidContent :So far, WaPo has reportedly rejected bids for Newsweek from the right-leaning Newsmax Mediatoo ideologicaland from Avenue Capital Grouptoo entwined with The National Enquirer. But there are three candidates that are being
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Unease With Newsweek Bidder
Washington Post is balking at selling Newsweek's to Avenue Capital, concerned about the hedge fund's plans to partner with the National Enquirer.
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Po Bronson: Thats why academics are so boring [VIDEO]
There are few more creative writers than the San Francisco-based Po Bronson . The author of four best-selling non-fiction books, two novels, a book of short stories and many articles for Newsweek, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, ...
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Obama on The View: Charming, Sexist, Soporific?
Amid questions from the chattering class about the wisdom of the move, President Obama's appearance on daytime talk show The View broadcast Thursday morning. How did the president do? Good Response to Concern over 'The View' Being Fluffy Newsweek's ...
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MarketWatch First Take: The Washington Post had better watch it
Here is a modest proposal for the companies that want to acquire Newsweek magazine from the Washington Post Co. Call the Post Co.'s bluff.
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The Trouble With Tigers
There are 3,000 tigers left in the wild. But there are more than 7,000 in America. Most are not in established zoos -- they're kept as pets, or mascots, even enforcers for drug dealers. NEWSWEEK looks at America's obsession with one of the world's ...
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Biting the Hand That Feeds
Early last year, even free market fundamentalists confessed that capitalism was in crisis. A Newsweek cover trumpeted, "We are all socialists now." Alas, the headline was mistaken: Government responses to the crisis did little to democratize economic ...
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Finding Serendipity And Sparking Creativity
Some ideas for facilitating serendipitous moments, and for more effective alternatives to creative brainstorming.
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A lesser controversy at Scienceblogs [Pharyngula]
The case of the various kinds of blogs hosted on ScienceBlogs has come up on Newsweek , and I get quoted trying to explain how I'm unperturbed by a couple of institutional blogs here.Not all bloggers feel this way, Myers included. "We've known ...
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What Congress Is Reading: New York Times, Not Time Magazine
Missing from the discussion about whether the federal government should subsidize the news is the fact that it already is. Congress spends $1.2 million a month on news and research, according toa survey from AOL News . Judging from dollars spent, the ...
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What It's Like to Have a Child Imprisoned in Iran
The mothers of two American hikers jailed in Irans Evin Prison visited London to petition the Islamic Republics ambassador there. Instead, they got an emotional conversation with NEWSWEEKs Tehran experthimself a former prisoner in Evin.
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Pakistan Loses Control
The Afghan Talibans three operational chiefs have gone deep underground, senior insurgent officials tell NEWSWEEK, and meetings of the leadership have been canceled until further notice. The threeformer Taliban civil-aviation minister Akhtar ...
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The Kindle Refuses to Die
Looks like the advance obits for the Kindle, which was supposed to be killed off by the iPad, were a bit premature. The iPad is selling sensationally (3.3 million and counting), Daniel Lyons notes in Newsweek , but so is the Kindle (3.5 million this ...
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The Rise of Cheap(er) Fertility Clinics
Fertility treatment doesn't come cheapIVF typically costs $15,000. But a new wave of clinics hope to ease the expense, reports Newsweek . In St. Louis, for instance, a new facility offers a range of treatments for about $7,500. The goal is equal ...
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Brad Hirschfield: Who Are Your Spiritual Teachers?
The Sisterhood, a Forward blog devoted to what it describes as "women's issues," has published its own list of 50 influential rabbis to parallel the one featured for the last four years in Newsweek . And like all such lists, the composers and the ...
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2010-07-23 Spike activity
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:Newsweek has an excellent series on the psychology and culture of beauty .'A single brief electrical pulse to the hippocampus caused momentary amnesia'. Neuroskeptic covers a fascinating human ...
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U.S., Russia Spy Swap Harkens to Cold War Era
The U.S. and Russia put the legal machinery in motion Thursday to exchange accused and convicted spies. Judy Woodruff talks to Newsweek reporter Mark Hosenball and former CIA Counsel General Jeffrey Smith for insight on the story.
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"Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable" - Majora Carter on the Struggle for Environmental Justice
We broadcast from Las Vegas, which is hosting the 2010 Netroots Nation. Thousands of people are attending, including Democrats in Congress, policy speakers, progressive bloggers and more. Among them is urban environmentalist Majora Carter. Newsweek has ...
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Wheres the Apology for Van Jones?
by Andrew Christie On July 21, as USDA chief Tom Vilsack was profusely apologizing to Shirley Sherrod for her rush to judgment, Newsweek's Jonathan Alter went on the magazine's Gaggle blog to bemoan the way "the administration mishandled a manufactured ...
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Newsverse: Great Israeli Pickup Lines
In this week's edition of Newsverse, NEWSWEEK's humorous poetic take on current events, Jerry Adler examines an unusual conviction for deception rendered by an Israeli court.
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Robert Morrison: President Obama: Stilling the Waters
We all recall how Newsweek editor Evan Thomas last year gushed that President Obama hovered over the nations "like a sort of god." That was then. The only thing gushing lately has been the BP oil spill, now mercifully...
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Jon Friedman's Media Web: Newsweek buyer's Job 1: Keep Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria might be the best thing about Newsweek, writes Jon Friedman.
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D.C. Plans to Lay Off 300 Underperforming Teachers
NEWSWEEK did a cover story a few months ago asking why we can't fire bad teachers. Today Washington, D.C., Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee proved that you can.
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The Snare of Beauty Flashpoints of Our Obsession with Attractiveness
Beauty, says philosopher Roger Scruton, "is never viewed with indifference." Those words ring true after this week's Newsweek article that purports to offer evidence that employers are more likely to hire attractive people.
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Philip N. Cohen: Young, Educated and Gender-Gapped
The 2009 gender gap among full-time workers was 19.8%. Women earn 80.2 of men's earnings. But in certain niches and demographic groups, the gap is smaller or even reversed.In my recent discussion with Jessica Bennet from Newsweek about her article, ...
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Americas New Icons
Newsweek, by Joshua Alston Posted By: Photoonist- Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:44:43 GMT In spite of quickly becoming an international phenomenon, Nicole Polizzi would probably not feel welcome in France. Not because of the unfair yet persistent perception that ...
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The Senate? Newsweek ? Cant Liberals Do Anything Right?
Jonathan Alter, dying Newsweeks Obama chronicler, vociferously protested my you-dont-need-a-weatherman conclusion last week about it looking as though the Democrats could lose the Senate. No, its not, said Alter, who finds my sometimes ...
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Architects imagine Los Angeles in 2030
Newsweek recently asked a group of prominent architects to create a vision of L.A. in 2030. Newsweek recently asked a group of prominent architects to create ...
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Problem-Solving for Creative Kids: Save Your School
Newsweek just published a report by Po Bronson and Ashley Merriman on the " Creativity Crisis ." For the first time since creativity testing was developed, scores in the United States are dropping. No one knows why (although television and video games ...
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