This CJR report on the totally batshit downward spiral that Newsweek has been on since 2013 — AKA, when its former (and extremely scammy) owner IBT Media acquired the magazine — starts as the slow burn horror story that everyone in digital media knows pretty well...there’s the ghastly salaries, the clickview-based bonuses, the public Google sheet ranking everyone by traffic, and clickbait vs.
there are LEVELS to this newsweek death…
This CJR report on the totally batshit downward spiral that Newsweek has been on since 2013 — AKA, when its former (and extremely scammy) owner IBT Media acquired the magazine — starts as the slow burn horror story that everyone in digital media knows pretty well...there’s the ghastly salaries, the clickview-based bonuses, the public Google sheet ranking everyone by traffic, and clickbait vs.