US News & World Report abandons print for web
US News & World Report, the third-largest news-oriented magazine in the U.S. (behind Time and Newsweek), announced plans to abandon print and focus on the Web.
"We're accelerating this transformation in response to our rapid growth online where our audience is now about 7 million uniques a month and growing," US News president Bill Holiber and editor Brian Kelly said in a memo to employees. "For all of you who have worked so hard to make this transition possible, say good-bye to Web 2.0 and welcome to Journalism 5.0," they added.
The memo did not give details for the future of the print edition, which earlier this year cut back from weekly to biweekly, but the Washington Post reported that US News will only published only once a month, and that the new monthly edition will be devoted to consumer guides, such as the magazine's popular annual lists of America's "best colleges" and "best hospitals."
Earlier this year, US News announced plans to move "away from a weekly magazine with a discrete website to become a multi-platform digital publisher of news you can use and analysis."
The 100-year-old Christian Science Monitor recently announced plans to end its daily print edition and become the first national US newspaper to become entirely Web-based.
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