In the past week, the Newsweek Daily Beast Company has lost three high-level staffers and recouped some long-lost Newsweek veterans, suggesting a major overhaul as executive management comes to grips with a disappointing first year.
Early last week, Tina Brown announced that she’d lured back Dan Klaidman, a longtime managing editor of Newsweek and its Read More
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A former Newsweek veteran, Dan Klaidman, has rejoined The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, editor in chief Tina Brown announced to staff today. Read More
Does Tina Brown have a mole on the Nobel judges panel or is she just prescient? In September, The Daily Beast’s publishing arm, Beast Books, published a memoir by Liberian peace activist and Daily Beast contributor Leymah Gbowee called Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War (such a Tina Brown title!) Not three weeks later, Ms. Gbowee was one of three women to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Read More
Tina Brown’s Women in the World Summit, conceived of in 2010 and programmed by Kyle Gibson, is slated to occur Read More
Lucky style editor John Jannuzzi is not the anonymous author of the now-defunct @CondeElevator twitter, as the Daily Beast reported yesterday.
“I can confirm that John is not the creator of the Twitter handle @CondeElevator,” Conde Spokesperson Beth Jacobson told The Observer.
After a couple of mildly irritated tweets, Mr. Jannuzzi published a good-humored denial on Lucky’s website.
“According to The Daily Beast, sources say disciplinary action is only hours away and I’m shaking in my Tretorns,” he wrote.
“On a personal note, according to another tipster, I’m ‘not particularly well known’–I’ll nurse my wounded ego later.” Read More
Media brands including Daily Beast, Mediaite, Hollywood Life and Crushable effectively issued a “bring it on” to comment trolls this morning by launching channels on VYou, the New York-based question-and-answer site where users record video answers to questions that can be submitted anonymously. (Shushannah Walshe, Daily Beast reporter and Read More
Rebecca Dana, a senior correspondent at The Daily Beast, has been tapped to rework the front of the book at the new Newsweek once the two publications’ merger has been completed, sources tell The Observer, and she is likely to edit the section when the title relaunches in February. Ms. Dana came to the Beast Read More
The Guardian has issued a lengthy list of corrections for two stories it published on October 8 and November 15. Among the highlights The Guardian apologized for calling The Daily Beast’s traffic “tiny” and saying it had “no apparent business plan.”
Seems like someone at the Guardian was either off their nut or Read More
Newsweek and The Daily Beast will announce tomorrow morning that the two publications will merge, a source close to the deal tells The Observer.
It will be a 50-50 merger of the two companies. The editorial staffs will combine under the editorship of Tina Brown, who will again run a high-profile glossy.
Newsweek owner Sidney Read More
