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Washington Post Co. got what just it wanted: Someone else to take the blame for killing Newsweek. Of all the bidders, the 91-year-old audio-gear mogul is least likely to make the changes needed for long-term survival.

The Washington Post Co. probably isn't going to get much more than a token $1 when it sells Newsweek. But it's being awfully choosy about where that dollar comes from.

Consistency has never been Arianna Huffington's strong suit, so when you hear her lauding the firmness of one of her own positions, it's worth checking for yourself.

As the list of potential buyers for Newsweek shortens, Washington businessman Fred Drasner is emerging as the most serious candidate. Meanwhile, the Washington Post Co. has reportedly turned away two conservative would-be buyers.

There may be bidders for Newsweek who haven't stepped forward, but Bob Guccione Jr. isn't one of them. Though he loves print, he says the newsweekly category is "in the late autumn of its life cycle."

On the block after Washington Post Co. tired of absorbing its losses, Newsweek isn't without suitors, with bids arriving this week. But the interested parties aren't the kind of suitors a magazine with a proud legacy might wish for.

The commercial printing industry is ripe for M&A. First of all, the market is highly fragmented, with 30,000 printers in the United States. About 400 companies control less than 30% of the market. Next, the printing industry has been undergoing significant change, as print media has declined...

What on earth was Sarah Palin thinking when she posed in a pair of teeny-tiny gym shorts for a photograph that ended up on the cover of Newsweek -- a cover she has called "sexist"? Perhaps she was thinking that her image would only appear in the magazine she was posing for, Runner's World, and...

About a year ago, media critic Michael Wolff predicted that Newsweek would go out of business "sometime around the fourth quarter of next year" -- i.e., right around now. That doesn't look like it's going to come true. But nor does it look as far off the mark as Newsweek's parent, the Washington...

In these lean times for journalists, the temptation to live large with an all-expenses-paid vacation and some high-grade swag is harder than ever to resist -- even if it means skirting the company ethics policy. Writers for Newsweek and The New York Times (NYT) were among the 150 guests who...