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Redesigned 'Newsweek' Way Down on Newsstand

Newish Newsweek editor Jon Meacham has seemed oddly confident in his belief that the path to survival for a newsweekly is to become less like a flashy website and more like a textbook. In today's Wall Street Journal story on the evolution of news magazines, Meacham boasts that Newsweek has 30 percent more text and fewer photos than it did when he took over.

But what do the readers think? An analysis of recent newsstand sales suggests they don't buy into Meacham's vision.

Since Newsweek introduced its redesign last October, newsstand sales have averaged 84,857, down 24 percent over the same period a year earlier ...

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