Over the past two years, while most American coverage of the Meredith Kercher murder case either played the story straight or raised questions about the competence of the Italian justice system, Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast followed the lead of the British tabloids, dishing on the sexual proclivities and bizarre comportment of Amanda Knox, sometimes Read More
If you thought photoshopping a dead royal on the cover of Newsweek to advertise the most offensive foray by a major American magazine into fan fiction was progressive, well, you should see their chairs. Read More
Although they had a rocky start to the season (and a broken nose), the team’s stats are now giving Tina Brown reason to celebrate the merger (recently christened again by the recent redirect of Newsweek's site to the belly of the Beast). Before The Daily Beast and Newsweek merged, they were Read More
It's been a while since the general public pondered on the public spectacle that was Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag. Not sure we really missed them, to be honest. But in a joint interview with The Daily Beast today, they've come out of hiding to reveal that they are penniless and crashing with the Read More
"Are Red-Haired Women 'Evil'?" --The Daily Beast, July 2011, a seven-slide slideshow that fails to come down on either side of the question (descriptors used: "shock of wild red hair") "Caught Redheaded," --The Daily, July 2011, a collage of famous redheads in which only modern-day Cyndi Lauper looks even slightly evil (descriptors used: Read More
Susanna Schrobsdorff, former editorial director of Newsweek Digital, recently spoke to The Transom about a group of fellow newsweek.com alumnis' booze cruise around Manhattan this Saturday (as first reported in the Eight-Day Week). “The last round of people in the buyout group just left,” Ms. Schrobsdorff, who departed the company in December 2010, said Read More
Apparently in honor of April Fool's Day, Meghan McCain posted what, if it were longer and showed evidence of consistent thought patterns, we might call a "screed" on The Daily Beast. HBO is making a film, Game Change, about the 2008 election. Recalling the creation of the 2008 book Game Change, upon which the Read More
Tina Brown has made good, in her way, on her promise to decode "crackling, confusing digital dots": Newsweek this week synthesizes Charlie Sheen's every manic Ustream with Bret Easton Ellis's theory, long promulgated over Twitter, of "Empire" and "post-Empire" entertainments. Mr. Ellis, whose piece is live on The Daily Beast, connects Read More
At Tina Brown's girl-power extravaganza last night, Women in the World 2011, hosted by Newsweek and The Daily Beast, Diane Von Furstenberg named her female role model as Rebecca Lolosoli, a woman credited with creating a girls-only village in Kenya.
"I met Rebecca two years ago," said Ms. Von Furstenburg. "She came to visit me. She Read More
Newsweek staffers are rejoicing this evening, as a memo from owner Sidney Harman tells them that they may not have to work out of their new, but deeply unliked, offices at 7 Hanover Square for long.
As recently as March 30, 2011, Mr. Harman wrote, it "may be possible to accommodate the combined Newsweek and Read More
In January 2008, Tina Brown announced she would be penning a book on the Clinton family. The Clinton Chronicles was set to be a sprawling account of Bill and Hillary's rise to power in American politics, perhaps in the vein of The Diana Chronicles, Tina Brown's 2007 biography of the fallen Princess of Wales. Read More
When it was reported by The New York Times Saturday, word of Newsweek.com's demise was news to the website's staffers. Though many on the embattled magazine's masthead have become used to receiving close-to-home information in such a way, the fact that their jobs could be at stake — just hours after a successful merger Read More
Tina Brown met separately with the staffs of The Daily Beast and Newsweek today, just hours after a merger between the two very different publications was completed. Details of the combined entity, to be known officially as The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, are beginning to emerge.
The Observer broke the news last night that Read More
Less than eight hours after the Observer broke the news that Newsweek was set to merge with The Daily Beast, Tina Brown made the official announcement with a late night blog post.
"Some weddings take longer to plan than others," Brown wrote.
Talks between Newsweek and The Daily Beast began late this summer. According Read More
Decision Points, President George W. Bush's hotly anticipated memoir, will hit bookstores tomorrow. If the leaked anecdotes are any indication, this thing's going to be quite the page-turner! But even if it's chock full of juicy tidbits that rival W.'s Kanye-hating, there's no surefire way of telling just how many copies the Read More
