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The Daily Beast 
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The Daily Beast is an American news reporting and opinion website founded and published by Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker as well as the short-lived Talk Magazine. The Daily Beast was launched on October 6, 2008, and is owned by IAC. Edward Felsenthal, a former Wall Street Journal editor, is the site's executive editor, and Stephen Colvin is its president.
The name of the site is derived from that of the fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop.[1]
On November 12, 2010, The Daily Beast and Newsweek announced a merger deal, creating a combined company, The Newsweek Daily Beast Company.
Contents
Format
One of the features of The Daily Beast is the "Cheat Sheet", billed as "must reads from all over". Published daily, the "Cheat Sheet" offers a selection of articles from online news outlets on popular stories. The "Cheat Sheet" includes brief summaries of the article, and a link to read the full text of the article on the website of its provider.
Since launch, the site has introduced additional sections, including a video "Cheat Sheet", "Book Beast",[2] "Hungry Beast", and "Sexy Beast",[3] a Fashion and Entertainment section. The site frequently creates encyclopedic landing pages on topical subjects such as President Obama's inauguration, the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, Michael Jackson, the Iran uprising, and the US Open.[4]
The Daily Beast contributors include: Christopher Buckley, Scott Turow, Mark McKinnon, Douglas Rushkoff, Matthew Yglesias, Meghan McCain, Reihan Salam, Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice, Gerald Posner, Simon Schama, Eric Alterman, Reza Aslan, Fatima Bhutto, Kirsten Powers, Howard Kurtz, Judith Miller, Andrew Sullivan, Michael Tomasky and others, including Brown herself.
Business
Popularity
According to a The New York Times article, The Daily Beast had reached three million unique visitors per month as of September 28, 2009.[5]
Beast Books
In September 2009, The Daily Beast launched a publishing initiative entitled Beast Books that will produce books by Beast writers on an accelerated publishing schedule.[5]
Merger with Newsweek
Tina Brown, The Daily Beast's editor, confirmed in November 2010 that the website would merge with Newsweek, following extensive negotiations between the publications' proprietors.[6][7] The new company will be The Newsweek Daily Beast Company.
Controversies
In February 2010, Jack Shafer of Slate.com claimed that the chief investigative reporter for The Daily Beast, Gerald Posner, had lifted five sentences from a Miami Herald article and claimed that he had written them himself and was able to publish them in The Daily Beast under his own name. Shafer also discovered that Posner had written plagiarized content from a Miami Herald blog, a Miami Herald editorial, Texas Lawyer magazine and a health care journalism blog. An immediate internal investigation by The Daily Beast led to Posner's departure.[8]
The Daily Beast has released several university rankings, which have received criticism for unscientific data and analysis. In 2010 they released a ranking of the "50 Druggiest Colleges" citing data from College Prowler, a web site that allows open posting by users. [9]
References
- ^ Edgecliffe-Johnson, Andrew (October 5, 2008). "Another scoop for Tina Brown as she swaps print for web". Financial Times (London). http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0a157900-9304-11dd-98b5-0000779fd18c.html#axzz1QveyEsa1.
- ^ "Tina Brown Talks About the Book Beast". Mediabistro. February 6, 2009. http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/lit_crit/tina_brown_talks_about_the_book_beast_107960.asp. Retrieved 2010-05-30.
- ^ "Sexy Beasts, Sexy Branding: The Daily Beast & Politico Unveil New Style Sections". Mediaite. http://www.mediaite.com/online/sexy-beast-sexy-branding-the-daily-beast-unveils-new-style-section/. Retrieved 2009-08-10.
- ^ "U.S. Open". The Daily Beast. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmaker/us-open-beast?cid=bsa:hottopics. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
- ^ a b Rich, Motoko (September 29, 2009). "The Daily Beast Seeks to Speed Up the Publishing Process for Books". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/books/29beas.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=The%20Daily%20Beast&st=cse. Retrieved 2009-09-28.
- ^ Brown, Tina (November 11, 2010). "Daily Beast, Newsweek to Wed!". The Daily Beast. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-11/the-daily-beast-and-newsweek-to-wed/. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
- ^ "The Daily Beast and Newsweek confirm merger". The Spy Report (Media Spy). November 12, 2010. http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2010/11/12/us-the-daily-beast-and-newsweek-confirm-merger/. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
- ^ "Author Gerald Posner quits Daily Beast amid plagiarism allegations". Miami Herald. February 11, 2010
- ^ Kantor, Ira; Sherman, Natalie (December 14, 2010). "Local colleges rank high on dope list". Boston Herald.
External links
- The Daily Beast official website
- The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet
- The Daily Beast on Facebook
- The Daily Beast on Twitter
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