Tina Brown announced the names of three editors who will top the masthead of the Newsweek-Daily Beast company after it replaces Newsweek. Now layoffs are imminent.
Donald Trump officiated the week's biggest eye-rolling contest on Wednesday, when he made his "very big announcement" about President Obama, a ploy for attention that inspired The Daily Beast slash Newsweek to launch a ploy of their own: a Donald Trump boycott.
IAC Chairman Barry Diller says downsizing is inevitable after Newsweek ceases publishing its print edition but the company will try to be as "spare" as possible when they cut staff.
In a momentous (though not totally unforeseen) development, Newsweek editor Tina Brown announced this morning that the magazine will move to an all-digital format and shutter the print edition just shy of its 80th birthday.
The challenge of knowing the difference between MSNBC.com MSNBC the cable news network may be over by next week, if a deal to separate from Microsoft goes through as quickly as The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz says it will.
Newsweek has been making a name for itself with a string of newly salacious cover images, but not all the provocative ideas end up in print, as editor Tina Brown explained in a video on Newsweek's Tumblr.
An allegedly cross-dressing, body-part-mailing, horror-movie-style murderer was arrested in Berlin on Monday night, Melissa Eddy reported in The New York Times. The suspect, who is said to be a Canadian porn star, was spotted in an internet cafe, reading the news... about himself.
"The Beast is on a roar!" tweeted Tina Brown on Thursday afternoon, reporting the best traffic month ever for her website and a welcome victory for her recently gutted editorial team.
Newsweek Daily Beast executive editor Edward Felsenthal became the third high-level hire to leave the company in the span of a few hours, a grim sign that chaos still rules at the magazine-web hybrid.
After facing a losing a reported $30 million in 2010, the Newsweek Daily Beast Company is replacing publisher Ray Chelstowski with former CBS Interactive executive Eric Danetz. Update: Also out is managing editor Tom Weber. Update 2: And now, it's longtime Tina Brown deputy Edward Felsenthal, most recently executive editor, who is out.
Herman Cain has a personal reason for wanting a simpler tax code: he missed paying his Georgia state income taxes in 2006, "prompting Georgia to file a tax lien against him that wasn’t settled until late 2008," The Daily Beast's Daniel Stone reports.
Former First Daughter doesn't have much private company experience
Robin Givhan's 900-word analysis is just one offering of many
The veteran media critic has a gift for throwing stones from a glass house
Tina Brown's biggest competitor is outselling her Newsweek two to one
The former Congresswoman was not expected to replace her husband Sidney Harman
What his passing will mean for the future of the Newsweek-Daily Beast merger
The authors asked her questions. How rude
But maybe expectations were just too high?
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