The 80-year-old US current affairs magazine Newsweek has revealed the image that will grace the cover of its last-ever print edition.

grace the cover：登上封面

A black and white photo of the publication's Manhattan headquarters takes pride of place, with the strapline #lastprintissue.

take pride of place：有最重要的地位

The nod to Twitter is regarded as a backhanded compliment.

backhanded compliment：挖苦意味的恭維話

The death of the print edition was caused by falling advertising revenues, as audiences moved online.

From the new year, Newsweek will be a digital-only publication. Editor Tina Brown described it as "a new chapter" for the magazine.

In a defiant editor's letter, she wrote: "This is not a conventional magazine, or a hidebound place.

"It is in that spirit that we're making our latest, momentous change, embracing a digital medium that all our competitors will one day need to embrace with the same fervor.

"We are ahead of the curve."

be ahead of the curve：走在前沿

Ms Brown became editor of the publication two years ago, after it merged with The Daily Beast, a news website she co-founded in 2008.

Newsweek's first edition was published on 17 February, 1933. It made an immediate splash with its front cover, featuring seven photos - one news story for each day of the week.

make a splash：引起轟動(dòng)

Although it always took second place to its rival, Time, it gained prominence in the 1960s for its coverage of the civil rights movement.

At its height, it had a circulation of 3 million, but declining readership and advertising revenue saw it fall into losses.

【新聞快訊】北京時(shí)間12月24日早間消息，美國(guó)知名刊物《新聞周刊》將于12月31日停止發(fā)行印刷版雜志，全面轉(zhuǎn)向名為“新聞周刊全球”的數(shù)字版刊物?！缎侣勚芸芬言赥witter上發(fā)布了最后一期印刷版雜志的封面。這一封面采用了一張黑白老照片，為紐約新聞周刊大廈舊址。該雜志已于1994年搬離這座大廈。盡管《新聞周刊》的內(nèi)容可能不受影響，但該雜志仍然無(wú)法抵御印刷雜志陷入衰退的趨勢(shì)。該刊的印刷版已有80年歷史。

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