Funny And Sad: Newsweek Semi-Seriously Turns To Tumblr To Find A New Editor

by Hillary Busis | 11:23 am, October 21st, 2010

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Who will be Newsweek‘s next editor-in-chief? Now that Tina Brown has officially taken herself out of the running, the job could go to anyone—even a regular schlub like you.

The beleaguered magazine’s always-entertaining Tumblr page just launched its own editor search. They’re inviting any and all people interested in the job to send “resumes, pies, [and] LOLcats” to nwktumblr@gmail.com or to their office, which is still (for now) located at 395 Hudson Street in New York City.

They will also accept bribes in the form of “cash, political favors, booze, cheese, legwarmers, and desserts,” according to a video put together by filmmaker and Newsweek staffer K. Ryan Jones.

That video, by the way, is pretty hilarious—even if it’s possible to smell some desperation beneath its veneer of humor. We wish Newsweek and, especially, the folks behind its Tumblr both luck and pie; ingenuity like this just goes to show why it would be a shame if the magazine went under.

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Big Eddie

Under Larry the Wino from 34th street Newsweek would lose less money than with Meacham as editor . Diagram that sentence .
Nachi

They’d better do something – and fast. The past several issues have been miserable. Oh yeah, goons out there, a few of us actually READ newspapers & magazines. While you play your little electronic games. Duh.
http://twitter.com/CRZ CRZ

Big Eddie said:
Under Larry the Wino from 34th street Newsweek would lose less money than with Meacham as editor . Diagram that sentence .

Needs a comma.

Hey, wait – I’m *editing!* I should apply for the gig!
MyRefrigeratorIsRunning

Wow, it appears that Newsweek is going the way of Examiner.com… Examiner will hire anybody with ten fingers and an IQ of over 50 to write articles for them!
Arkansas Steve

Perhaps NPR could purchase Newsweek for a dollar.
Then NPR could sell it to Newsmax for two dollars.
Then NPR could raise their hands in triumph and tell us they really DO understand the capitalist system.