Tina Brown
What is Tina Brown reading? What does Tina Brown feel you should be reading? Well! NPR provides answers to these very questions, relaying the Daily Beast editor-in-chief's recommendations on the subject of "the evolution of the written... READ MORE»
By Chloe Malle | November 10, 2009 | 7:32 pm
Elegantly bow-legged with a navy knit tie, Sir Harold Evans politely but emphatically set the record straight when the Transom asked if his latest book, My Paper Chase, was an industry overview. “Oh no, by no means, that’s the last thing it is!” said the octogenarian editor emeritus at the party celebrating its publication.... READ MORE»
By Chloe Malle | October 27, 2009 | 7:51 pm
Tina Brown was up to her old tricks on Tuesday, Oct. 21, hosting a luncheon for 50 with hubby Harold Evans, honoring fashion dowager Donatella Versace, at the couple’s maisonette near the East... READ MORE»
Looks like Tina Brown's Daily Beast may be riding on Arianna Huffington's charitable coat tails with the launch of Giving Beast, a new vertical that encourages users to read blog posts and stories about cause-related news and opinion, then click on links and widgets to find out how to get involved.... READ MORE»
To commemorate The Daily Beast's first birthday, The Daily Beast interviews Daily Beast founder Tina Brown. You will be pleased to hear that Brown has "finally found a medium commensurate to [her] peculiar metabolism," traffic is "beyond our wildest hopes when we started last October," and that she and Arianna Huffington are on perfectly friendly... READ MORE»
Tina Brown's Daily Beast, noted for spending lots of Barry Diller's IAC dollars in the service of journalism, is entering another ailing industry. In conjunction with Perseus Books Group, Ms. Brown will be starting a Daily Beast book... READ MORE»
Recently we sat down with Sue Naegle, the president of entertainment for HBO, to talk about the state of scripted series at the premium cable network. At one point, we asked Ms. Naegle about Frank Rich and Tina Brown's role at the network. Last time we checked in with HBO, in the first half of 2008, both Ms. Brown, the founder and editor of the Daily Beast, and Mr. Rich, the New York Times... READ MORE»
It hardly seems like a year ago, but remember last September? Just after Lehman declared bankruptcy, we dealt with a rapid wave of media closures here in the city: The Sun, 02138 and, for a third time,... READ MORE»
"Look at what’s out there!” said Joe McGinniss, the veteran fiction and nonfiction writer, on the phone with The Observer from his home in Amherst, Mass., on Tuesday. “The magazine that paid well, Portfolio, is out of business! And here, at the other end of spectrum, you get paid $250 and you have to sign your life... READ MORE»
On Wednesday night, Joe Scarborough stood in the back room at Michael's restaurant, and publicly thanked his wife, Susan, who stood a few feet away, for inspiring the evolution of his political punditry at MSNBC. ... READ MORE»
“People kept telling me that they were bored with the Internet,” said Choire Sicha, an “ancestor of ephemeral Gawker” and soon-to-be published book author (not to mention a former Observer editor and columnist), who was calling into ... READ MORE»
The Webby Awards just announced their nominees for their 13th annual awards show. No surprise that NYTimes.com got 13 nominations, including the "Newspaper" category (The New York Observer was also nominated, along with the UK's The Guardian and The Independent).... READ MORE»
John McCain's 24-year-old daughter Meghan has a book deal! Sources say Hyperion has prevailed over at least three other publishers in an auction that began earlier this week, following a round of meetings during which the in-your-face young conservative and the literary agent she shares with her father, Sterling Lord Literistic president Flip Brophy, discussed a number of possible approaches to the book with editors around... READ MORE»
"In my most exhausted moments, I think about the story on the front page of The New York Times about bloggers having heart attacks," said Edward Felsenthal, executive editor of the Daily Beast, said at at the PSFK Conference at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park today.... READ MORE»