Can the Re-launched Newsweek Survive?
Peter Osnos is a senior fellow for media at The Century Foundation. Osnos is the founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs Books. He is vice chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, a former publisher at Random House, and was a correspondent and editor at the Washington Post.
The 76-year-old newsweekly is attempting a full-scale resurrection this month, cutting bureaucracy and bureaus to make for a smaller, fresher magazine. But can it capture the buzz in a crowded media pond?
The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners
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The Daily Beast's who's who guide to this year's winners in Fiction, Drama, and other categories.
Blago's Book List
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What's Rod Blagojevich doing now? He tells us he's reading books about Roosevelt and Churchill, and Ibsen's classic An Enemy of the People, about a man unfairly ostracized amid a scandal.
Resolved: Sarah Palin Is Not Andrew Jackson
Jon Meacham, the editor of Newsweek, is the author of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House.
Bill Kristol's comparison of the Alaskan governor to Old Hickory doesn't fly.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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