Fareed Zakaria to Leave Newsweek

We guess this means he won’t be the next Newsweek editor: BusinessInsider reported earlier Wednesday that Fareed Zakaria will leave Newsweek at the end of September, and David Carr of The New York Times later confirmed that Zakaria will jump ship to take on a new role as contributing editor and columnist for Time magazine. The editor of Newsweek International, Zakaria is possibly Newsweek’s most famous writer. BusinessInsider says that “CNN plans to build a bigger franchise around Zakaria”; he already hosts an hour-long foreign-affairs program called Fareed Zakaria GPS. Time and CNN are both owned by Time Warner, and the move will allow Zakaria to have all his work appear within a single company.