NEW YORK — Newsweek, the venerable US weekly current affairs magazine, will publish its final print edition on December 31 and move to an all-digital format, the latest example of print media adapting to changing reading habits.Magazines and newspapers have struggled as readers have gone online or to their tablets and e-readers to get news. Germany’s largest newspaper publisher is introducing a paywall for its flagship national daily Die Welt by the end of this year.The Guardian newspaper in the UK this week denied that it was considering a digital-only format, but many analysts believe that may be its only option."We are transitioning Newsweek, not saying goodbye to it," two top executives of its parent company said on Thursday.The all-digital Newsweek will be called Newsweek Global and will be a single, worldwide edition, Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Newsweek Daily Beast, and its CE, Baba Shetty, wrote in a post on the Daily Beast website.The decision to stop printing the 80-yea...
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