In recent weeks, several respected magazines, their publishers, and writers have fallen prey to various journalistic malfeasance and scandals. Who is to blame? Internet boogeymen, of course.

The late investigative reporter Michael Hastings’ much-buzzed-about posthumous novel, The Last Magazine, a thinly veiled account of his time at Newsweek (and Gawker!) in the mid-2000s, finally landed in bookstores and Amazon warehouses earlier this week. But where’s the fun in thin veils?

Last year, when it was announced that International Business Times had bought the shrinking Newsweek brand, some media organizations started asking questions about IBT's connection to a shady Korean-born Christian minister. Now we have some new, weird info on that connection.

Last year, IBT Media acquired Newsweek from IAC, hoping to use the magazine’s name to redeem the company’s reputation as a soulless content farm controlled, in part, by right-wing Moonie leader David Jang. In a lengthy profile of IBT founder Johnathan Davis, Guardian reporter Jon Swaine reveals that the 31-year-old entrepreneur believes in redeeming gay people, too:

Newsweek has posted a reply to Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto's denial of its story that Nakamoto was, as Newsweek's headline put it, "The Face Behind Bitcoin." It reads:

Late last night, a lawyer named Ethan Kirschner, claiming to represent Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, emailed a statement to several members of the media, including Reuters' Felix Salmon. In it, Nakamoto denies that he is, in fact, the "Satoshi Nakamoto" commonly credited with "inventing" Bitcoin. Here's what he says, in full:

Newsweek isn’t backing down. Hours after publishing Leah McGrath Goodman’s 4,5oo-word profile of a 64-year-old Temple City engineer named Dorian S. Nakamoto—who, Goodman claims, is the long-mysterious inventor of Bitcoin—the magazine faced a cascade of evidence contradicting the ambitious cover story of its freshly revived print edition. Nevertheless, its editor-in-chief tells Gawker that the publication stands by the story.

Temple City resident Dorian S. Nakamoto—identified by Newsweek as the long-unknown inventor of Bitcoin—told the Associated Press that “he had never heard of Bitcoin until his son told him he had been contacted by a reporter three weeks ago.”

It's baaaaaack: IBT Media promised Newsweek would stay digital when it purchased the shell of a former weekly magazine—but then site's traffic tripled. Now they're repackaging the magazine as a "luxury item" at $7.99 a copy, on stands as early as Friday.

Another woman who had previously accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault has repeated her claim to Katie J.M. Baker, describing how she was "assaulted a number of times." A "source close to Cosby" characterized Baker's work to BuzzFeed as "a gal at Newsweek that's frisky, looking at some of these things."

One of the multiple women who've accused Bill Cosby of drug-aided sexual assault affirms her account of the incident to Newsweek: "It never works out, unless you're bleeding and there's DNA and an eyewitness. I was 19 and he was the king of the world, so how was it going to work?"

The magazine gods they giveth, and the magazine gods they taketh away. Just days after New York Magazine announced that they are cutting back to only two editions a month, Newsweek has announced plans to return to a weekly edition, starting in January or February.

The Women in the World Foundation, former Daily Beast editor Tina Brown’s very own charity, is nominally devoted to “driving solutions that advance women and girls.” According to its sole IRS filing, the New York Post points out, Women in the World spent the plurality of funds raised in 2011, totaling more than a million dollars, on throwing lavish gatherings for its director and her connected friends. That’s one kind of solution!

The dessicated, online-only husk of what was once a big magazine called Newsweek has finally been sold off (despite our explicit instructions not to buy it). For editor Tina Brown, it marks the end of a humiliating career defeat. Newsweek's downfall exposed all of Tina Brown's weaknesses, and won't hurt her a bit.

Baba Shetty, CEO of NewsBeast since September 2012, today left the company, which is reportedly in the midst of trying to offload Newsweek. Tina Brown broke the news in a memo, which also revealed that Rhona Murphy would be the interim CEO.

"New York Magazine Put Up For Sale." That is true, of course. But it is also confusing, sort of like this "Rob Ford Resigns" headline, just tweeted by New York Magazine.

Newsweek is for sale. Again! And what great timing: the CEO promises that Newsweek "will break-even in Q4 of this year." What reason could you possibly find not to buy?

Variety is reporting that Newsweek is for sale again, just three years after merging with the Daily Beast and one month after Barry Diller said publicly that he regretted buying the flagging brand.

Eli Lake, one of the surviving workers still huddled in the ruins of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, celebrates May Day by gloating about the glories of capitalism.

In honor of the close of Newsweek's print edition last month a former intern looks back on one summer, 13 years ago.