Newsweek to go digital-only from 2013 Newsweek Global would be paid for by subscription, she added, and will be available online and on e-readers and tablets such as iPad and Kindle. Commenting on the extent of the shift to digital consumption of news by Americans in the last five years, Mrs Brown referred to the 39 per cent of Americans who get their news from an online source, according to a Pew Research Center study released last month. It was, she said, "A tipping point at which we can most efficiently and effectively reach our readers in all-digital format." It is expected job losses will hit editorial staff at the magazine. The international edition of Newsweek will also cease to publish in print on December 31. Barry Diller, media veteran and CEO of IAC/InteractiveCorp, which has a controlling interest in Newsweek Daily Beast, said in July that he was contemplating making Newsweek available only online because of the cost of "manufacturing" a weekly. It is the final step into a bold digital future from a woman once described by this newspaper as a "magazine queen," and who said in 2009: "I think it's really imperative that papers like The New York Times - which is in a parlous condition - the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe, which is in tremendous peril and is probably going to go, are saved in terms of what they do, without necessarily worrying about the delivery system. It's more important to preserve journalism than it is to preserve newspapers, frankly.