
Sometime this summer, someone other than The Washington Post will probably own the renowned brand of Newsweek. When I wrote about the pending sale in this column last week, I waxed philosophical about the meaning of a newsweekly magazine in 2010 and prattled on about how ill-conceived Newsweek’s latest redesign was.
Needless to say, that criticism went over well inside the magazine itself. “Well, then, what would you do if you ran Newsweek?” asked one person there.
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