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09:02 • 2 years ago

Recently, Newsweek's executive chairman, Sidney Harman, died from acute myeloid leukemia -- a blood cancer. Before he passed, Harman penned a column for his magazine, in which he told his cancer to "go stand in the damn corner. I have important stuff to do." R.I.P.

Can we just emphasize how amazing this article is? We want to give him a hug. Right now. Journalism needs more, not fewer, people like Sidney fighting the good fight. He had a lot of good days, yes. But based on the defiant tone taken in this piece, he could’ve used a few more. And we would’ve been made the better for them. Peace out, Sidney.

10:23 • 2 years ago

Tags: sidney harman newsweek obit tina brown speaker moguls jane harman the daily beast 41 • Permalink

Sidney Harman, he of late-blooming media empire: Last August, audio mogul Sidney Harman bought Newsweek from The Washington Post Company, setting the stage for the blockbuster merger of the magazine with The Daily Beast (that’s Tina Brown tweeting above). He was 91 at the time. Before this, he was largely known for being one of the men behind the modern speaker. His Harman Kardon corporation, founded in the 1950s, was responsible for selling some of the first high-fidelity stereo speakers to large audiences. He also put in some time as a top Commerce official under Jimmy Carter, and his wife is former Democratic Rep. Jane Harman. He lived a pretty full life. He died last night at 92. source

14:37 • 2 years ago

Tags: barry diller daily beast like a bad Nora Ephron movie newsweek nora ephron sidney harman tina brown 4 • Permalink

Married people disagree all the time. One of them walks out of the room and says, ‘Never talk to me again.’ Then they sleep it off and one sends the other flowers. We realized that there was much more that connected us than separated us.

Newsweek owner Sidney Harman • Explaining the dynamic between the ownership of his Newsweek and that of the Barry Diller-owned Daily Beast. One anonymous source described the potential failure of the collaboration being “like a bad Nora Ephron movie.” Will the collaboration turn out like “Sleepless in Seattle,” “You’ve Got Mail,” or “Bewitched”? All we know is that we’ll have what they’re having. source (via • follow)

20:55 • 2 years ago

Newsweek’s Daily Beast merger: Two money-losers, one with momentum

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$10M the amount The Daily Beast is on track to lose this year; it’s relatively new, so that’s not bad
$20M the amount Newsweek is on track to lose; it’s been bleeding for a long freaking time
$1 the amount Sidney Harman spent to buy Newsweek; he also took on all its debt source

» Is this a deal just to get Tina Brown? It wouldn’t be unprecedented. See, Brown, a longtime magazine editor for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, has the chops to help make Newsweek a success again, and Barry Diller’s Daily Beast, while growing at a nice clip (5 million online readers a month, which means that nowadays, it’s probably read about as widely as Newsweek, which sells 1.6 million print copies – significantly down from just a year ago), probably needs a print component to anchor its Web efforts and ensure profitability. And plus, NBC Universal bought Barry Diller’s USA Network back in 2001 basically to get Diller.

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Recently, Newsweek's executive chairman, Sidney Harman, died from acute myeloid leukemia -- a blood cancer. Before he passed, Harman penned a column for his magazine, in which he told his cancer to "go stand in the damn corner. I have important stuff to do." R.I.P.

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