The old Newsweek building at 444 Madison Avenue, back when Newsweek was on top of the world (journalistically, at least). And then the unfortunate #hashtag slapped on the cover.

I have no doubt that few readers will stick around for the “new chapter,” as Tina calls it (let’s be honest). But this ode to the magazine that was is worth reading, if sad.

Michael Isikoff on his 1998 Monica Lewinsky Scoop

An Oral History of Newsweek

The Battle of Brand X

Newsweek on Civil Rights

Christopher Dickey on Covering War

David Ansen on Covering AIDs

Photos: 80 Years of Newsweek Schwag

Perspectives (ie Shit Newsweek Said)

valentineuhovski:

Esquire,  March 1965

Amazing.

Iconic Newsweek covers from the 60s and 70s. RIP.

what does your bow say about your beau? life magazine, 1944. (via)

storyboard:

When You Get Fired from Your Magazine & Your Kickstarter Gets Funded in a Single Day

An interview with Ann Friedman, former executive editor of GOOD and creator of editor #RealTalk.

(Source: my5tic41andshit)

storyboard:

Cooking Their Way Through Gourmet History

#Storyboard goes Foodie! These guys are cooking their way through 815 issues of Gourmet magazine. Check it.

timemagazine:

The latest issue of TIME, featuring our cover story on the rise of attachment parenting, “Are You Mom Enough?” hits newsstands Friday. 

(On the cover: Jamie Grumet, 26, and her son, 3, whom she breastfeeds. Photograph by Martin Schoeller for TIME)

Read more here.

Whoa. Just… whoa.

nwkarchivist:

FOUND: Important Facts For Smokers Discovered By Science!

Newsweek July 28, 1934

newsweek:

Today in awesome vintage Newsweek covers that need to be posted just because, c/o cleaning out my email: LSD. May 6, 1966. The horror!

For more vintage newsmagazine hilarity (and seriousness), follow our sistertumblr, nwkarchivist.

I mean, how can you not love a magazine called The Gentlewoman?

(From the makers of Fantastic Man.)

svfinerie:

Jean Shrimpton Newsweek 1965 « We Heart Vintage from (via We Heart it)

So good.

What Mainstream Publishers Don’t Want You to Know About Door-to-Door Magazine Sales

longformorg:

On the shady underworld of door to door magazine sales teams, in which teens roam the country in vans, con locals with sob stories, party constantly in cheap motels, and leave behind a trail of…