Topic: Daily Beast

Anything Women Can Do Guys Can Do, Too: A Trend-Story Story

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Men can blow dry hair and wear makeup just like women can. There has been progress for makeup-wearing men. Will we ever reach a place when the "What, men are doing this, too?" trend story can retire? 

By Alexander Abad-Santos

Feb 1, 2013

Newsweek Daily Beast Is NewsBeast, and That's the End of That Chapter

In one of the final, wheezing gasps from the magazine that the world, for 79 years, used to know as Newsweek, there is now word that The Newsweek Daily Beast Company has officially changed its name to "NewsBeast" — which sounds about as fierce as the company is not.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jan 2, 2013

Will You Pay to Read Andrew Sullivan?

Andrew Sullivan is leaving The Daily Beast to launch up an independent, reader-funded publishing company based around a new kind of pay "meter," and he needs your help to start it — a lot of your help.

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By Connor Simpson

Dec 23, 2012

The Last Newsweek Cover Has a Hashtag on It

You're pretty much resigned to reading Sports Illustrated or Reader's Digest the next time you go to the dentist's office now because Newsweek is no more. In a questionable move, Tina Brown made the magazine's final cover feature an old picture of the Newsweek building and a hashtag.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 19, 2012

The Unsinkable Tina Brown

We're all supposed to hate Tina Brown. We get it. She's the queen of shock covers, she talks on the Amtrak quiet car, and completely sunk one of the most iconic magazines she was paid a lot to fix. So when we sat down with New York's  Q&A with the Queen of Chaos last night we were prepared to hate but .... 

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By Jen Doll

Oct 10, 2012

A Pep Talk for Anyone New to New York

Andrew Sullivan, who recently leased an apartment in New York City, writes in a blog post titled "New York Shitty" that "Moving to New York while blogging an election was probably too large a leap for an excitable chap like myself," he explains. "Does it get better?"

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By Elspeth Reeve

Apr 17, 2012

Katie Roiphe Moves into Phase Two of Trolling

Girl World is the unseen parallel dimension where women wage a forever war between shifting alliances in a John Connor-less dystopia.

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By Eric Randall

Jan 17, 2012

Andrew Sullivan and Team Obama Endorse Newsweek's 'Dumb' Critics Cover

In a live chat Tuesday, Daily Beast blogger Andrew Sullivan says he's okay with the controversial headline Newsweek editors put on his cover story critique of President Obama's critics.

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By Eric Randall

Jan 16, 2012

Name Calling Doesn't Inspire Serious Debate

Newsbeast Editor Tina Brown rightly tweeted this morning that "Andrew Sullivan has lit up the web," with his Newsweek cover story, "Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb?" But an ad hominem cover line is better for creating heat than light.

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By Dino Grandoni

Jan 6, 2012

NewsBeast Scoops Up David Frum

Newsweek/The Daily Beast editor Tina Brown has hired David Frum, the pundit who exiled himself from conservatism, to join her magazine-web mini-empire.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Oct 31, 2011

Newsweek and The Daily Beast's Increasingly Stormy Marriage

It hasn't stopped raining on the Newsweek-Daily Beast comeback parade, and a new Adweek report suggests the dark clouds might take years to lift. 

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By John Hudson

Oct 13, 2011

Editor Howard Kurtz Disappoints Media Critic Howard Kurtz Again

He doesn't want the media covering Romney's Mormonism that his publication covers

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By Erik Hayden

Jul 11, 2011

The Daily Beast Finally Retires Newsweek.com

Starting on July 19th, the news weekly will no longer have a stand alone site

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By John Hudson

Jun 16, 2011

Tina Brown Tells Vogue How She Deals with Snark

The Newsweek/Daily Beast editor just turns it off

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