First there was Bill Clinton, America’s “ first black president .” And now, there’s Barack Obama, dubbed “the first gay president” by Newsweek over the weekend The newsmagazine’s May 21 cover features an image of Obama looking off into the distance, a rainbow halo above his head. Read full article > >

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Barack Obama: ‘The First Gay President’?

At Newsweek / Daily Beast’s Women in the World summit.

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Toyota Gives $50K To ‘Mothers of Invention’

NEW YORK — The executive hired to turn around Newsweek magazine has left after 11 months. Ray Chelstowski, who served as publisher of Newsweek and The Daily Beast website, ended his tenure Monday. He had come from Entertainment Weekly magazine to oversee an effort to boost ad sales at Newsweek. Executive Editor Edward Felsenthal and Tom Weber, the magazine’s managing editor, also resigned Monday. Felsenthal is leaving to spend more time with his family and may eventually return, according to Andrew Kirk, a spokesman for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Read full article > >

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Publisher of Newsweek magazine, The Daily Beast website leaves, 2 new executives brought in

Tells Newsweek, “I got my shot.”

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Raj Rajaratnam Breaks His Silence

Mr. Harman made a late-in-life splash by acquiring Newsweek magazine and wedding it with a sassy Web site, The Daily Beast.

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Sidney Harman, Newsweek Chairman, Is Dead at 92

Since the Daily Beast Web site merged with Newsweek, the accomplished editor is eager to avoid any hype about her plan to turn the struggling newsweekly around.

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Tina Brown’s Quiet Restart of Newsweek

Jane Harman, a powerful member of the House, is expected to leave her seat to helm a Washington think tank. Harman-whose husband, Sidney Harman, bought Newsweek in 2010-will helm the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a bipartisan…

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Rep. Jane Harman to Leave House

A picture of Michelle A. Rhee, from a recent Newsweek cover, hangs above Interim Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson’s desk. It shows her outspoken mentor and friend seated at an old-style classroom desk, smiling.

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Rhee’s successor escapes her shadow; challenges remain

Obama’s ambassador to China does not dismiss a presidential run.

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The Caucus: Stirrings of a Challenge From an Obama Appointee

Special envoy Richard Holbrooke passed away on Monday from complications of a torn aorta, but his last position in the White House came with frustrations that lasted until his dying day. According to John Barry of Newsweek, “He was accomplishing…

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Holbrooke’s Secret Disappointment

One of the US’ oldest magazines, Newsweek, is to merge with news website The Daily Beast under the editorship of Tina Brown.

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Newsweek and Daily Beast to merge

Tina Brown is to become Newsweek’s editor after a long and sometimes frustrating search by Sidney Harman.

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Media Decoder: Tina Brown to Run Newsweek in Daily Beast Merger

Jon Meacham, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of President Andrew Jackson, will be an executive vice president at the Random House Publishing Group following his departure from Newsweek’s offices this summer. Meacham published American…

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Meacham Joins Random House

More and more, the dichotomy between mainstream media and digital media is a false one.

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The Media Equation: A Vanishing Journalistic Divide