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...According to the indictment, some of the money was then used to repay the same equipment lenders who had extended the loans in order to maintain the credit profiles of Newsweek LLC and Christian Media....
...Franklin D Roosevelt cultivated ties with union publications; Ben Bradlee of Newsweek (and, later, The Washington Post) became a confidant of John F Kennedy....
...Newsweek’s rapid descent contrasts with more stable stories at competitors including Time, The Week and The Economist (half-owned by the FT Group)....
...However, while that deal has revived Newsweek editorially, it has yet to reap big commercial rewards....
...Besides, I’m not convinced he really believes what he spouts, given that Phoebe Philo of Celine is cited in the Newsweek piece as the example of the non-star....
...OpenGate Capital, the US buy-out firm that owns TV Guide, is among prospective buyers planning to formally declare interest in acquiring Newsweek magazine from the Washington Post ahead of Wednesday’s deadline...
...Mr Saban told the Wall Street Journal last month he would look at Newsweek but noted that “the world has significantly changed” since The Washington Post had rebuffed his approach for Newsweek two years...
...Bloomberg said it was not looking at Newsweek. Reed Phillips of DeSilva + Phillips, a media investment bank, said private equity bids seemed unlikely because of Newsweek’s losses....
...Before joining CNBC, he was a senior writer at Newsweek magazine where he broke major stories involving Wall Street and corporate America....
...For Newsweek, he covered the 1964 US presidential campaign, won by Lyndon B. Johnson....
...Time and Newsweek gave up earnest arts coverage long ago. The departure of a staff writer does not invariably mean the end of criticism....
...Immediately following the Republican national convention, Mr Bush led Mr Kerry by 54 per cent to 43 per cent, according to the Newsweek poll....
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