The World Cup in South Africa has proved to be much more than a great sporting show. It has also bolstered Qatari owned Al Jazeera Network’s standing as the most potent media conglomerate in the Arab world today. Al Jazeera Sports had bought the exclusive transmission rights for this region of the FIFA World Cup 2010 and 2014 and the African Cup of Nations from 2010 to 2016 from the Arab Radio and Television (ART), whose sports channels went off the air at the end of last year.

The announcement, last week, that Newsweek, the venerable American newsweekly magazine is up for sale because of economic difficulties, is another milestone in the agonizing struggle of print media to survive in a changing world. If the magazine finds a buyer, the new owner will almost certainly change much of the look and feel of the magazine, which for decades, along with Time, was a symbol of America’s opinionated and responsible journalism.