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Meanwhile, Backstage At 'Newsweek'...

Behind-the-scenes dish here about all the mishegoss at Newsweek, which earlier this month marked the one-year anniversary of the merger between the Daily Beast and Newsweek, and Tina Brown's taking on the post of editor

The piece includes many anonymous quotes about the unstable atmosphere  and all the staff defections. Here's a typical one: “'There was never a discussion at any point about what Newsweek was going to be after she took it over,' said a Newsweek source. 'Was it going to be Tina’s New Yorker? Was it going to be Mark Whitaker’s Newsweek? Was it going to be The Week? That discussion never happened. It never even happened at the micro-level.'”

That dire picture is balanced somewhat by the mention of some happier statistics, like a rise in ad pages (10% in October) and newsstand sales (6%), and acknowledgement  that at least some of the problems were due "simply [to] the insane pressure of trying to bring a dead magazine back to life[which... would be tough on anyone... despite the odds and the growing pains, a few remain optimistic that this will still all come together."

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