Fareed Zakaria Leaving Newsweek for Time

by Jocelyn Rousey | 5:24 pm, August 18th, 2010

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After ten years with the magazine, Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria will be leaving at the end of September to join Time as Editor at Large. Time Managing Editor Rick Stengel announced today that he is “thrilled that Fareed is joining us; his singular voice in explaining the world to people is a natural fit with our editorial mission at a moment when Time is more relevant and wide-reaching than it’s ever been.”

Zakaria will continue his Sunday morning show on CNN, “Fareed Zakaria GPS.” Moreover, parent company Time Warner, which owns both CNN and Time, plans to expand Zakaria’s role across its family of networks. From the Time press release:

TIME and CNN will collaborate on making Mr. Zakaria’s online presence on CNN.com and TIME.com a powerful joint platform for his views and ideas with distinctive written content and video, including interviews with newsmakers.

Zakaria’s move to TIME doesn’t come as a huge shock, given Newsweek’s recent plight and the fact through his CNN show he has a strong connection to Time‘s parent company TimeWarner. Meanwhile, this marks the latest loss to Newsweek, which has been on a bit of a downward spiral since changing ownership and losing prominent staff members like Jon Meacham, Evan Thomas, and Michael Isikoff.

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felixw

Like getting out of a sinking ship and into a lifeboat with a hole in the bottom.
http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

WOW !… What did Time give up in the Zakaria trade ? Traitor Joe Klein and a box of pencils ?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Matt-Herrick/100000969560328 Matt Herrick

TIME is as lucky as ABC was to get Amanpour. That is to say, they are very unlucky.
notsofast

Good! I look forward to not reading what he writes for Time as well.
JimBob

Has anyone here ever heard of this guy?
http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

Fareed to report on the growing Zombie community .
shootfromthehip

Well we’ve establish the fact that Republicans don’t read magazines by the comments above.

Congratulations, all.

Enjoy the brain rot.
shootfromthehip

established, that is.
notsofast

shootfromthehip said:
Well we’ve establish the fact that Republicans don’t read magazines by the comments above.

Congratulations, all.

Enjoy the brain rot.

Really? I think we established that you lack reading comprehension.

I said I would not read HIS columns.
http://none pyrope

shootfromthehip said:
Well we’ve establish the fact that Republicans don’t read magazines by the comments above. Congratulations, all. Enjoy the brain rot.

No, you are wrong, but what’s new. We read magazines and other printed media that are not in the tank for Mr. -0bama and his gallery of rogues. Newsmax makes Time, Newsweak, and others look like things you’d use to start fires with. The Wall Street Journal is depended upon for it’s veracity while the best use for the NY Slimes, Boston Glob, Philadelphia Enqueerer, LA Slimes, Atlanta Urinal & Constipation is to line the bottom of a birdcage.