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4 Minute Roundup: Newsweek-Daily Beast Merger; Slate Hurting?

by Mark Glaser, November 12, 2010

Tagged: barry diller, jacob weisberg, newsweek, sidney harman, slate, the daily beast, tina brown

4MR is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.

In this week's 4MR podcast, I discuss the recent merger announcement between Newsweek magazine and online publication The Daily Beast. The deal becoming finalized was first reported by Nick Summers, a former Newsweek reporter now at the New York Observer. I talked with Summers about the challenges Newsweek has faced, and his back-and-forth online with Slate's Jacob Weisberg about the current state of Slate.

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Listen to my entire interview with Nick Summers:

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Background music is "What the World Needs" by the The Ukelele Hipster Kings via PodSafe Music Network.

Here are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:

Observer Exclusive - Newsweek and Daily Beast to Merge at NY Observer

New Details Emerge on Newsweek-Beast Merger at NY Observer

Daily Beast, Newsweek to Wed! at Daily Beast

Newsweek, The Daily Beast Combine at Newsweek

Jacob Weisberg Was a Web Pioneer. But He Doesn't Much Care for What Works on the Web Now. Can Slate Recover? at NY Observer

Press Clips - The New York Observer's New Disclosure Problems at the Village Voice

Weisberg - NYO wrong; Slate's going gangbusters in memo at Romenesko

Slate's Traffic Is Gangbusters, Except When It's Not at NY Observer

Also, be sure to vote in our poll about who you think is the winner in the Daily Beast-Newsweek merger:

Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.

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\n\n4MR is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.\n\nIn this week's 4MR podcast, I discuss the recent merger announcement between Newsweek magazine and online publication The Daily Beast. The deal becoming finalized was first reported by Nick Summers, a former Newsweek reporter now at the New York Observer. I talked with Summers about the challenges Newsweek has faced, and his back-and-forth online with Slate's Jacob Weisberg about the current state of Slate.\n\nCheck it out:\n\n

\n\n\n\n>>> \"Subscribe to 4MR\":http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/audio_podcast.xml <<<\n\n>>> \"Subscribe to 4MR via iTunes\":itpc://www.pbs.org/mediashift/audio_podcast.xml <<<\n\nListen to my entire interview with Nick Summers:\n\n

\n\n\n\nBackground music is \"What the World Needs\" by the \"The Ukelele Hipster Kings\":http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=1930 via PodSafe Music Network. \n\nHere are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:\n\n\"Observer Exclusive - Newsweek and Daily Beast to Merge\":http://www.observer.com/2010/media/observer-exclusive-newsweek-and-daily-beast-merge at NY Observer\n\n\"New Details Emerge on Newsweek-Beast Merger\":http://www.observer.com/2010/media/new-details-emerge-newsweek-beast-merger at NY Observer\n\n\"Daily Beast, Newsweek to Wed!\":http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-11/the-daily-beast-and-newsweek-to-wed/ at Daily Beast\n\n\"Newsweek, The Daily Beast Combine\":http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/12/newsweek-and-the-daily-beast-combine.html at Newsweek\n\n\"Jacob Weisberg Was a Web Pioneer. But He Doesn't Much Care for What Works on the Web Now. Can Slate Recover?\":http://www.observer.com/2010/media/blank-slate-jacob-weisberg-web-pioneer-and-he-doesnt-much-care-what-works-internet-can-sl at NY Observer\n\n\"Press Clips - The New York Observer's New Disclosure Problems\":http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2010/11/press_clips_the_1.php at the Village Voice\n\n\"Weisberg - NYO wrong; Slate's going gangbusters\":http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=194234 in memo at Romenesko\n\n\"Slate's Traffic Is Gangbusters, Except When It's Not\":http://www.observer.com/2010/politics/slates-traffic-gangbusters-except-when-its-not at NY Observer\n\nAlso, be sure to vote in our poll about who you think is the winner in the Daily Beast-Newsweek merger:\n\n\n

Who will come out the winner in the Daily Beast-Newsweek merger?customer surveys

\n\nMark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and \"Idea Lab\":http://www.pbs.org/idealab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the \"Online Publishers Association\":http://www.online-publishers.org. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter \"@mediatwit\":http://www.twitter.com/mediatwit.\n\n\n\n4MR is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.

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