U.S. News & World Report To End Print Edition

U.S. News & World Report magazine is going to stop sending its monthly print edition to subscribers next year and go mostly online.

Brian Kelly, the magazine's editor, outlined the changes in a memo sent to staff on Friday.

In the memo, Kelly said the December issue will be the last monthly issue sent to subscribers. Monthly print versions will continue to be available at newsstands, and it will continue to publish occasional guides on colleges, history, personal finance and other topics. Its content will continue to be available at USNews.com, which has 9 million visitors a month.

Kelly told The New York Times that the move won't result in more layoffs.

U.S. Media News Group president Bill Holiber said on the magazine's website that the decision "allows us to continue to grow our online business" and take advantage of new distribution platforms.

The company developed a U.S. News Weekly digital magazine last year that it is adapting for Apple Inc.'s iPad and other devices.

Hurt by declining print advertisements and readers' shift to the Web, U.S. News said in June 2008 it would become a biweekly magazine, instead of a weekly; six months later it decided to go monthly.

U.S. News was founded in 1933 and merged with World Report in 1948, and considered itself one of the nation's three major newsweekly magazines alongside Newsweek and Time.

Last month, The Washington Post Co. revealed how much it got for selling Newsweek, a once-prized asset it bought in 1961, to audio equipment magnate Sidney Harman: $1.

Comments

[cheapNdumb]

11:24 AM on 11/08/2010

KOOL! we are getting a little closer to the "no paper trail" version of history.

[ThomasPaine1776]

01:13 AM on 11/08/2010

I own a copy of the Nov. 28th, 1941 edition of US News & World Report. The cover story is "The Coming War with Japan", and inside is a detailed prediction of Japanese attacks everywhere in the Pacific; everywhere except Pearl Harbor, which they dismissed as too hard of a target for the Japanese. They instead predicted an attack on the Panama Canal and Alaska.

Most people could not really imagine that the Japanese would actually strike Pearl Harbor. It was just too outrageous.

Not a slam on US NEWS, by any means. Just thought it was interesting.

[Jimmy Boy]

07:41 PM on 11/07/2010

Newsweek will be next followed by Time.

Electronic media is the future.

[cheapNdumb]

11:25 AM on 11/08/2010

no paper trail is the future

[noudidnt]

06:55 AM on 11/07/2010

Zuckerman is a l0 0 n and a liar.

[Libgirl746]

11:52 AM on 11/08/2010

I agree. Can't stand Mr. Megabucks.

[nothingtolose]

09:38 PM on 11/06/2010

Oh, heck! I was hoping that the awful man in the picture that goes with this story -- whom HuffPo fails to identify BTW -- had decided to go back to Canada and stay there.

[mytwocents02]

02:32 PM on 11/06/2010

Oh dear, I'm stuck with reading really, really old magazines at the doctor's office now.

[el greco]

05:55 AM on 11/11/2010

Funny!

[reebus856]

02:06 PM on 11/06/2010

As it has been mentioned & talked about before, this move by USNews&WP is but another portent of what is happening to the publishing industry. With the iPad, other mobile devices(smartphones et al.) now allowing subscribers to take not just one news magazine website-but a plethora of news sites-as well as books-all neatly accessible with a touch. It might be similar to what happened to vinyl records succumbing to CD's & mp3 downloads. We all have our preferred forms of media. Now they[publishers] are asking us to make a choice.

[Bluetiger]

10:19 AM on 11/06/2010

To bad they could have maintained the mag easily if they reformatted, and began using the internet as a tool rather than becoming one with it. If you don't adapt to a new environment you become extinct. The could have adapted.

[yorkie]

10:17 AM on 11/06/2010

Wow, although like the Christian Science Monitor, this does not really surprise me...But I'm reminded that it's been quite awhile since I've paged through USN&WRpt ! It was one of the best mags around for years.....It was more hard news driven, perhaps bland, less pop culture content, but it had inside scoops, very good political and world news. It was for long time reflective of it's longtime editor Marvin Stone. I read it weekly as a teen believe it or not going back to mid 70's to early mid 80's. Then hit and miss....It's beginning to look like the few hand held journals are going to be --A-- those with a specific area--outdoors,travel,sewing,cooking, collecting of all kinds, and B- those with a specific position on issues either conservative or liberal and a few for specific trade or organizational publications.

[dana94591]

10:06 AM on 11/06/2010

Zuckerman has ruined one of the best weekly magazines in the country with his heavy handed style and his pinheaded conservatism. This magazine used to be my favorite read because of the quality of the writing and reporting. It is sad to see it go, but it is Mort who put it there!!!

[Harpro208]

10:16 AM on 11/06/2010

Agree 100% F and F US News used to be the best. Straight news. No bias.

[DLCA]

09:41 PM on 11/06/2010

I agree with you; used to read it weekly for a more conservative point of view, but then Zuckerman put it too far right (when he's on the McLaughlin Group I turn the channel because then the show veers even more to the far right extreme) and it became unreadable.

[dana94591]

07:55 PM on 11/09/2010

I read it cover to cover because the reporting was so complete and gave you info to support the particular slant. I also discovered James Fallows there because he would write these great in depth articles. Then Fallows became editor and I was overjoyed. But when Fallows left the writing, the careful reporting and the types of stories deteriorated. I stopped subscribing 2 years ago when it was going through an identity crisis. I could not read anything in the issues and they seemed to be full of ads with no content whatsoever.

[Rachel O]

09:57 AM on 11/06/2010

Can't blame them. Saves money for one thing. And as an added bonus, it'll save trees and remove tons of garbage from landfills.

[AndyGra]

05:54 AM on 11/06/2010

I just mailed my CUT-IN-HALF print copy of Newsweek back and told them to cancel and keep the change! I didn't need to see R.L. glorified. Didn't read it, neither.

[Jon Dorian]

06:38 AM on 11/06/2010

Big Mistake! It is going to be a collectors item! A liberal magazine with a conservative face on the cover is rare!

[roudy]

10:42 AM on 11/06/2010

Been a long time since it was a liberal magazine.

[oxygen]

05:47 AM on 11/06/2010

good for them - the way this print on demand technology is going we'll soon be able to have whatever magazine with whatever tailored info on it any day now, I hope they are aware of this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_on_demand

[Impaler]

04:45 AM on 11/06/2010

It use to be a good magazine our home had it for years, but at some point it quite reporting accurately or slanted to the left. We canceled and I thought we where the only ones....LOL.

[3rd Party]

04:08 AM on 11/06/2010

Good
This means that there is very little chance I will ever have to see this magazine in waiting rooms anymore.

[johnb123]

07:19 AM on 11/06/2010

Waiting rooms keep their magazines for 10 years or longer. :)

[yorkie]

10:20 AM on 11/06/2010

Not to mention many small town barber shops, beauty hair shops....and there it's Popular Mech, Hunting, old sports mags, etc