Tina Brown Reveals Her First Newsweek Cover On 'This Week' (PHOTO, VIDEO)

Tina Brown unveiled the first cover of the relaunched Newsweek on Sunday's "This Week."

The cover features Hillary Clinton, as part of a special issue, "150 Women Who Shake The World."

Since taking the helm of the magazine in the wake of its merger with her Daily Beast site, Brown has spearheaded a complete redesign of Newsweek and hired several high-profile writers. She has also promised a new era of austerity at the title.

See the cover below, and watch Brown discuss the magazine with Christiane Amanpour.

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[InfinteShibumi]

05:26 PM on 03/08/2011

Meh.

[Andrew FingerlickingGree]

09:34 AM on 03/08/2011

Thats the cover.... a mean thats what all the hype was about?


I wish women were in charge and men were marginalized, the world would've been a better place.

[Gosseyn3]

10:38 PM on 03/07/2011

The cost cutting at Newsweek is showing it's face in the hollowing out of the content.

Before TB I can't recall seeing pieces in NW that read like they were written by high school students. In the last few issues there have been several of those. I suppose she's likely placing more reliance on canned content from India, to save $$$ but it's really quite disappointing to see a former top tier news magazine sink to it's current level...

[EW34]

06:50 PM on 03/07/2011

Really... I just can't believe that lady who excelled so much as gov of al as ka... who did her job so exceptionally well it only took her 2 years, NOT 4 years, to accomplish everything the state needed... I just can't believe she is NOT one of the Top 150 women.

[left in vermont]

05:00 PM on 03/07/2011

That cover sure is a game changer.
Oh my God. The world will never be the same again.

[Andrew FingerlickingGree]

09:29 AM on 03/08/2011

LOL!

[LARRYCO]

02:44 PM on 03/07/2011

Tina Brown unveils new Newsweek cover, confirms suspicion that she hasn't heard of interwebs yet.

[GEM-592]

01:28 PM on 03/07/2011

Another newsweek overhaul? Can't be any worse than the last one I guess, but I doubt they will do enough. They don't seem to understand that people who want hard, consistently objective reporting, i.e. actual journalism, have a plethora of alternatives that don't preach and condescend to their readers - for a fee.

[mfinbh]

12:53 PM on 03/07/2011

Last week, I saw a copy of Newsweek. Granted, Brown had not yet taken editorial control, but it was by then owned by Sidney Harmon. The cover was a piece by Niall Ferguson, of all right wing shills, explaining why Obama had completely failed in the mid-East (this from someone who thought Bush succeeded). Inside was an article in favor of "the return of the company town" - portrayed as a good thing! I frankly couldn't believe that Harmon allowed this rag to go out (and it was nearly devoid of ads)

Tina Brown is very effective at getting eyeballs to a magazine, but that doesn't necessarily mean quality (her lasting contribution from her years at the New Yorker was allowing the F word - big deal). The odd match is Brown's right leading Daily Beast with Harmon's (presumably) left-leaning Newsweek. The Beast really offers nothing special (Slate, Salon - Gawker, even have better content). Now that she's swiped Andrew Sullivan from The Atlantic, maybe there's a chance for it, but the Newsweek/Daily Beast experiment will automatically last for awhile because the rich and powerful look after their own. Her rolodex will keep things humming for a few years. But unless she recognizes the need for hard news, and unless she brings back quality foreign bureau reporting, thus offering what the rest don't, the experiment will be toast.

[noudidnt]

01:30 PM on 03/07/2011

Sidney and Jane Harman can hardly be called "left-leaning".

[InfinteShibumi]

05:30 PM on 03/08/2011

True. Harman is a Blue Dog.

[cornel]

12:36 PM on 03/07/2011

"It's not your Grandpa Jon's magazine anymore," no obviously it has become "Your Grandma Tina's magazine"

[naschkatze]

12:01 PM on 03/07/2011

Just what we need right now, more cult of personality. (Which is all Brown does.)

[sposton]

11:56 AM on 03/07/2011

Chris Hedges on media:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVmYsfB9J2g

What do you think?

[NYCIC]

12:16 PM on 03/07/2011

The man looks and sounds absolutely exhausted. He's saying this structure is as porous as a straw hut and everything of value is escaping. I don't fault him. One can't constantly run up against what one perceives to be overwhelming hopeless indifference in the culture and not have it become a huge energy sap. Something keeps him going. For that, he has my deep respect.

[sposton]

03:58 PM on 03/07/2011

He does look exhausted. Despite the fact than in this interview he says, "we are done". I suspect what drives him is his belief that situation is never entirely hopeless. In one of his books he mentions the work of Vasily Grossman who describes human hope under the most difficult conditions. I think Hedges believes that human spirit will ultimately triumph but because of our sleep we must first go through a wilderness period. How long will it last? Perhaps a few years, a few decades or a few centuries. There is no cosmic law which guarantees human progress.

[Adam616]

11:54 AM on 03/07/2011

Well, at least it's better than "All Royal Family, All The Time!"

[noudidnt]

01:30 PM on 03/07/2011

It will be.

[sposton]

11:46 AM on 03/07/2011

American printed media is dying for a reason. Who wants to pay for bromides when one can get them for free on the Net? If they wish to make themselves relevant once again, you must first deliver value to its readers, not advertisers. These outlets don't ask relevant questions facing our country, causes of our decline, criminality of Wall Street,... Make yourselves relevant so that young people can have a reason for learning how to read. ;-)

Just check out young people around you. How many of them pick up a newspaper or magazine? How many of them can point Afghanistan or Iraq on a map of the world?

Our media is just a propaganda outlet for those who are destroying this country. Newsweek is as dead under Tina Brown as it was before.

[Gosseyn3]

10:41 PM on 03/07/2011

Kudos to you sposton. Well said!

[BlueKansas]

11:24 AM on 03/07/2011

This is so sad. I grew up reading Newsweek cover to cover. Everyone in our family fought over it all week. We talked about it over family dinners. Those were the days of George Will (who mymom loved butnever agreed with) and Shana Alexander.

I have never liked Tina Brown. The word 'snarky' always comes to mind when I think of her. She doesn't just sound snarky; she looks it as well, and I was so sorry to hear she had take over Newsweek. I am very glad that Howard Fineman -- ♥♥♥ -- got out in time and came over to HuffPo. He deserves better than Tina Brown.

By the way -- that cover photo of Hillary? Terrible. Simply awful. She is way more attractive and vibrant-looking that that. She looks like she has indigestion.

[NVEd]

11:02 AM on 03/07/2011

I think Newsweek is dead already it just hasn't been buried. I won't be renewing my subscription when it expires.

[Tanker10a]

11:21 AM on 03/07/2011

I used to enjoy a well-written article from the US News and World Report back in the day (with subscription included); but I could never get into Newsweek. I have always thought that they were being copy-cats to the aforementioned magazine and TIME.

[naschkatze]

12:09 PM on 03/07/2011

Already dead, not buried yet, but beginning to smell.