Can Tina Brown successfully reinvent Newsweek?

Money quote from NY Times: " ... there is the much larger question of whether a weekly magazine is still a viable format for delivering the news. Publishing veterans are not focused on whether Ms. Brown can sustain Newsweek as readers have come to know it during the last 78 years. What she needs to do, they say, is create a whole new magazine from scratch. 'Whether it can be saved is irrelevant,' said Ron Galotti, the former Vanity Fair publisher, who worked with Ms. Brown at Conde Nast and left the company with her to help start Talk. 'What is to be created is the task.'"

Newsweek Weds Daily Beast? Good Luck - David Carr - NYTimes.com

My view precisely, via NY Times: "Putting together The Daily Beast and Newsweek makes little financial sense, includes not much in the way of editorial synergies — is it The News Beast or The Daily Week? — and marries two properties that have almost nothing in common other than the fact that they both lose lots of money."

NewsBeast! - The Newsweek/Daily Beast Partnership

This should be interesting. NYTimes.com: "After a brief and interrupted dalliance, Newsweek, the 77-year-old magazine, and The Daily Beast, Ms. Brown’s two-year-old Web site, have decided to put their cultural differences aside and join forces. Ms. Brown confirmed the deal in a column posted Thursday night in which she said the agreement was finalized with a coffee mug toast Tuesday evening. 'As for me, I shall now be in the editor-in-chief’s chair at both The Daily Beast and Newsweek,' she wrote."