Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence. Newsweek is published in four English language editions and 12 global editions written in the language of the circulation region.

Since 2008, Newsweek has undergone a series of internal and external contractions designed to shift the magazine's focus and audience while shoring up the title's finances. Instead, losses at the newsweekly accelerated: revenue dropped 38 percent from 2007 to 2009. The revenue freefall prompted an August 2010 sale by owner The Washington Post Company to 92-year-old audio pioneer Sidney Harman—reportedly for a purchase price of $1.00 and an assumption of the magazine's liabilities. Editor Jon Meacham departed from the magazine upon completion of the sale.

In November 2010 Newsweek merged with the news and opinion website The Daily Beast after extensive negotiations between the proprietors of the respective publications. Tina Brown, The Daily Beast's editor-in-chief was expected to serve as the editor of both publications. Newsweek is jointly owned by the estate of the late Harman and IAC.

Tomasz Lis [ˈtɔmaʂ ˈlis] ( listen) (born March 6, 1966, Zielona Góra) is one of the most popular Polish journalists, former TV anchor of “TVN Fakty” ("TVN Facts") and “Wydarzenia” ("Events").

Tomasz Lis began his career in TVP (Polish Public Television) in 1990 after winning an open competition for the post of a newsreader.

Since 1994, until 1997 correspondent in Washington, D.C. for TVP.

From 1997 to 2004 co-author of “TVN Fakty” on Polish television station TVN.

From 2006 to 2007 chief editor of "Wydarzenia" Polsat.

In 2003 published his book, Co z tą Polską? (What's with Poland?) which has become a bestseller in Poland (selling over 100,000 copies).

As at end 2010, up to February 2012, Editor-in-Chief of the current affairs weekly "Wprost".

He married Kinga Rusin in June 1994, divorced on June 27, 2006 They have two daughters: Pola and Iga. In 2007 married a Polish journalist Hanna Smoktunowicz.

Tina Brown, Lady Evans, CBE (born Christina Hambley Brown; November 21, 1953), is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles, a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales. Born a British citizen, she took United States citizenship in 2005 after emigrating in 1984 to edit Vanity Fair. Having been editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine at only 25 years of age, she rose to prominence in the American media industry as the editor of Vanity Fair from 1984 to 1992 and of The New Yorker from 1992 to 1998. In 2000 she was appointed a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for her services to overseas journalism, and in 2007 was inducted into the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame. As an editor, she has also been honored with four George Polk Awards, five Overseas Press Club awards, and ten National Magazine Awards. In October 2008 she partnered with Barry Diller, chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp to found and edit The Daily Beast. Two years later, in November 2010, The Daily Beast announced that it will merge with the American weekly news magazine Newsweek in a joint venture to form The Newsweek Daily Beast Company. Brown will serve as Editor-in-Chief of both publications.

Barack Hussein Obama II (ⁱ/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.

Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.

Cody Lundin is the founder, director, and lead instructor of the Aboriginal Living Skills School, LLC in Prescott, Arizona. ALSS was created by Lundin in 1991. Lundin teaches primitive living skills, modern outdoor survival skills, urban preparedness, and homesteading. He is the author of two best-selling books on modern outdoor survival skills and urban preparedness. He is currently a co-star of the Discovery Channel series Dual Survival. His field approach is based on more than two decades of back country experience with and without students in desert and mountain terrain.

Lundin is an internationally known professional survival instructor with more than 20 years of hands-on teaching experience. He has trained private, corporate, and governmental agencies, thousands of students, and dozens of national and international media sources in outdoor and urban preparedness skills. He has consulted for and been featured by dozens of media outlets including The Today Show, National Geographic Television, Esquire magazine, the New York Times, USA Today, Dateline NBC, Fox News, the Donny and Marie Show, the Public Broadcasting Station (PBS), Playboy magazine, Maxim magazine, FHM magazine, Lifetime television, The Atlantic magazine, The History Channel, Popular Mechanics magazine, TV Guide, The Travel Channel, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Field and Stream magazine, the Christian Science Monitor and many others. In 1999, Lundin was the third person in history to appear on the cover of Backpacker magazine that featured a story about his survival school and philosophies.