Check out ongoing coverage of Newsweek/Daily Beast’s Women in the World event, which is so 180 degrees from Newsweek of a year ago we can’t even get over it. Go, ladies! Also: kudos to our design team (aka the one-man shop Roberto) for the interactive above.

sarahfrank:

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A 50-50-50 split?! Oh wait, that doesn’t work.

savenewsweekdotcom:

If Newsweek.com should cease to exist, here’s what we wonder: What will be the ramifications for Newsweek’s Web presence in terms of SEO? For branding? For our partnerships with MSNBC and MSN? What happens to Newsweek’s (still-unleveraged) archives? How do you preserve a “national treasure” (as Harman has called it) without a Web presence bearing its name?

And… we have defenders!

Despite all the buzz that’s accrued to the Beast, its site attracts significantly fewer people than Newsweek.com: 2.2 million for the Beast in September compared with 6.2 million for Newsweek’s site, according to Compete. And even though Newsweek’s ad pages in the first three quarters fell 12.7% from the same period in abysmal 2009 — a decline exacerbated by uncertainty around the magazine’s sale — Newsweek still has a lot more advertising than the Beast.

AdAge, on the apparent plan to shutter Newsweek.com.

markcoatney:

First, killing off Newsweek.com and redirecting the url to the Daily Beast wreaks havoc on your SEO; forget about any long tail pageviews you used to collect from the old Newsweek.com. Second, more than 50% of Newsweek.com’s traffic comes to it from MSNBC and MSN through content/linking deals; it’s unclear whether those deals would continue with the new company, but it seems less than likely; if MSN/MSNBC had wanted to do a content deal with the Daily Beast they would have done so already, and I find it unlikely that they  will be happy with simply linking to a new site with a much different editorial vision.

And Mark Coatney is back, with a vengeance.

(via tanya77)