Interestingly enough, Newsweek has decided to make some major changes to their magazine, which include some major cuts in the company. This new design is suppose to make the magazine be a "slimmer publication with fewer subscribers and more photos and opinion inside its pages." To me, that sounds like a brilliant way to take a large step for the magazine in a new direction. The problem is that it would be a huge step backwards. Suddenly, Newsweek isn't so much news anymore as much as opinionated columns. Of course readership and subscription will decline rapidly after such a change. I suppose they are assuming that the nice pictures they take will keep the magazine going.
Is this really a change we can't avoid because of the declining economy. If change is inevitable, is this really the best route to take? I don't think that it's necessarily good for the Washington Post Co to just rely on their newspaper to provide the news and use Newsweek to show off their cool pictures. The less news we have circulating around the less "good" news we get and it's good to see that, if nothing else, the company doesn't want this. However, this change is probably a trend we should be getting used to, given the economic crisis at hand.
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