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Sidney Harman, the 92-year-old founder of Baruch’s Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, is the new owner of Newsweek. The publication’s previous owner, the Washington Post Company, turned away several potential buyers before selling to Harman, who plans to retain a majority of the magazine’s employees. Though taking on the struggling weekly will be a challenge, Harman is optimistic. “By no means do I have a sense that print media is done,” he said. “We are at an inflection point among print, mobile, and digital.”

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