MSNBC.com and Newsweek sever ties…

I missed this yesterday. Ad Week’s Lucia Moses writes about MSNBC.com and Newsweek severing their ties…

One of the supposed advantages of the combined NewsBeast was that The Daily Beast would get the benefit of Newsweek’s much bigger audience.

Now, it looks like that advantage is quickly diminishing. Newsweek.com has ended an agreement with MSNBC that provided a significant amount of its traffic—in some months, as much as half.

“We’re not continuing it,” Charlie Tillinghast, president and publisher of the MSNBC Digital Network, told Adweek. “They just decided not to do it. There wasn’t a lot of discussion about it. I got the impression they were busy trying to organize themselves.”

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