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Hot 97's Miss Info Among New York Observer Top 50 Media Bachelorettes - Posted August 19, 2011
As we reported earlier in the week, The New York Observer has compiled a list of the 50 most eligible bachelorettes in media. Hot 97/WQHT's Miss Info (a.k.a. ... [FishbowlNY]

Revolving Door: The Daily Beast Talk Show, 'TIME' Everywhere, and More - Posted July 21, 2011
The Daily Beast has made a few new hires in order to launch a new venture: an online talk show. Sources told The New Yor... [PRNewser]

Register Today For Social Media Marketing Boot Camp - Posted July 21, 2011
Are you struggling with content strategy? Are you figuring out how best to use Twitter for your business goals? Discover how t... [10,000 Words]

Newsweek/The Daily Beast Adds Simon Schama - Posted May 23, 2011
Simon Schama - the New Yorker critic and Columbia Professor - is joining ... [FishbowlLA]

Newsweek/The Daily Beast Adds Simon Schama - Posted May 23, 2011
Simon Schama - the New Yorker critic and Columbia Professor - is joining ... [FishbowlNY]

Jane Harman to Join Newsweek Daily Beast Board - Posted April 22, 2011
When Sidney Harman died, the rumor was that his 29-year-old son Daniel would take his place on the company's board. It turns out that wasn't true, as the company announced late yesterday that ... [FishbowlNY]

Sidney Harman's Posthumous Final Essay for Newsweek - Posted April 18, 2011
Last week Sidney Harman, owner of Newsweek, died at 92 from acute myeloid leukemia. Several weeks before his death, Ha... [FishbowlNY]

World News Producer Susie Banikarim Joins Newsweek/Daily Beast - Posted March 2, 2011
The hiring binge continues at The Newsweek/Daily Beast C... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

The Newsweek/Daily Beast Merger Is Finally Official - Posted February 1, 2011
It has been nearly three full months since Newsweek and The Daily Beast verified all the rumors and ... [FishbowlNY]

Center for Public Integrity to Provide Exclusive Content to NewsBeast - Posted January 31, 2011
The Center for Public Integrity will provide exclusive content to soon-to-be-siblings ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Tina Brown Adds Peter Boyer and Wayne Barrett - Posted January 31, 2011
Sidney Deane, the hustler charachter from White Men Can't Jump, once said, "I don't mean to brag, but I'm the greatest!" After today, FishbowlNY imagines Tina Brown might want to add that... [FishbowlNY]

NewsBeast Moves One Step Closer with Newspaper Guild of New York Pact - Posted January 27, 2011
The ongoing merger between Newsweek and The Daily Beast moved one step closer to ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Newsweek Names Cheltowski as Publisher - Posted January 6, 2011
Ray Cheltowski, formerly with Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly, has been named Publisher at Newsweek. According to Jeremy Peters at ... [FishbowlNY]

Newsweek/Daily Beast Deal Still In The Works - Posted January 3, 2011
Most companies witness a slowdown in operations around the holiday season and Newsweek and ... [FishbowlNY]

Tina Brown Snags First "NewsBeast" Staffer Away From Lucky - Posted November 24, 2010
Tina Brown is wasting no time in building her team at the newly formed Newsweek Daily Beast Company. NYPost.com's Keith Kelly reports that Brown has tapped ... [FishbowlNY]

Tina Brown: Newsweek.com Isn't Shutting Down; It's Being Combined with The Daily Beast - Posted November 15, 2010
Reports of the demise of ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Christine Pelisek Finds a New Serial Killer On the Loose - Posted November 12, 2010
New job, same Christine Pelisek. The former LA Weekly writer, who now writes for The Daily Beast, discovered the existence of the "Grim Sleeper" serial killer on the loos... [FishbowlLA]

Done Deal: Newsweek, The Daily Beast Officially Announce Merger - Posted November 12, 2010
Once thought to be on life support, the agreement to merge Newsweek and The Daily Beast... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Start the Presses: The Daily Beast Eyes Print Companion - Posted October 27, 2010
IAC CEO Barry Diller said during the company's third-quarter earnings call that The Daily Beast was consi... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

The Daily Beast Strikes Again, Names Howard Kurtz Washington Bureau Chief - Posted October 5, 2010
Whether or not Newsweek has anything to do with it, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Effect Author David Kirkpatrick Joins The Daily Beast - Posted October 4, 2010
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: 'PR Has Always Been Two-Way' - Posted September 28, 2010
[caption id="attachment_5267" align="aligncenter" width="489" caption="Left to right: Pat Mitchell, President and CEO, The Paley Center for Media; Debora Spar, President, Barnard College; Tina Brown, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast; Lauren Zalaznick, President, NBCU Women & Lifestyle Entertainment Networks; Mark Addicks, Chief Marketing Officer, General Mills; Kim Brink, Executive Director, Advertising... [PRNewser]

Winter Olympic Winners Icy With Press | National Enquirer Gets Legit | Toobin In Trouble | Buzzed to Death - Posted February 18, 2010
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Zachery Kouwe Resigns From New York Times Over Plagiary Charges - Posted February 17, 2010
This has not been a good month for looking over your shoulder and copying your classmates work: Just last week, Gerald Posner from The Daily Beast ... [FishbowlNY]

Leno Punching Bag | Conan's Justified | Imagining Stern | Posner Resigns - Posted February 10, 2010
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Gerald Posner Plagiarized Miami Herald - Posted February 9, 2010
Gerald Posner, an investigative journalist and contributor to Tina Brown's Th... [FishbowlNY]

Rebecca Dana Pulls Two-Book Deal - Posted February 3, 2010
Rebecca Dana, formerly of The Wall Street Journal and currently senior correspondent at ... [FishbowlNY]

Atlantic Editor On Pay Walls: "Can't Afford To Be Ideological" - Posted January 29, 2010
Last night The Atlantic hosted a discussion titled "Money, Media, and the Future of HBO" with network co-president ... [FishbowlNY]

Conan v. Leno: The End of The Week - Posted January 15, 2010
Can you believe it: this time last week we were going about our Friday afternoon business, completely unaware that the following week would see the dra... [FishbowlNY]

Micropayments: Pay Walls' Happy Medium? - Posted December 29, 2009
When entertainment industry trade Variety decided to put its online content behind a pay wall earlier this month, it promised options for how users would go about ... [FishbowlNY]

Amanpour Interviews Tina Brown, Harold Evans|WSJ Covers Tiger Woods Scandal, After Keith Kelly|Hearst To Launch New Site Next Year|E&P Still Has A Chance|HuffPost Profiled - Posted December 18, 2009
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Tribune Gets More Time|Hachette Moves|Forbes May Sell HQ For $55M|Two Memos|Daily Beast-ers "Happy As Clams" - Posted December 2, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c<td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspa... [FishbowlNY]

CNET's Colvin Joins Daily Beast As President - Posted November 20, 2009
One year since its launch, online news hub The Daily Beast has named a president, Stephen Colvin. Colvin, executive vice president of CNET/CBS Interactive, will report direct... [FishbowlNY]

Fictional Columnist Returns To Financial Times - Posted November 2, 2009
Today, we received a formal announcement from ... [FishbowlNY]

HuffPost Introduces Nominees For Game Changers In Media - Posted October 30, 2009
The Huffington Post has asked its readers to help pick the top 100 "game changers": people who are "using new media to reshape their fields and change the world." But as the site has reveale... [FishbowlNY]

Daily Beast Launches Socially Conscious Site Giving Beast - Posted October 23, 2009
Last week, The Huffington Post launched a new philanthropically focused vertical, HuffPost Impact, and this week Tina Brown's online publication ... [FishbowlNY]

Norman Mailer Colony Gala: A Night of Media, Literary Superstars - Posted October 21, 2009
It takes a lot to bring America's greatest living fiction, non-fiction, and journalism writers into one room, but if one woman could do, it's Tina Brown. The Daily Beast editor-in-chie... [FishbowlNY]

Meghan McCain|Publicist Poll|Dubow Returns To Gannett|Robinson Visits Boston|NBCU Improves Earnings - Posted October 16, 2009
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Balloon Boy|HuffPo Passes WaPo In Unique Views|Redstone To Sell $1B In CBS, Viacom Shares|MPA Conference Snap Shot|Tina Brown - Posted October 15, 2009
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Speedy Publishing On The Menu - Posted September 29, 2009
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Former Fishbowler Rebecca Fox Returns To The Menu - Posted September 11, 2009
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Daily Beast Launches Entertainment & Fashion Section Sexy Beast - Posted September 10, 2009
It's only fitting that Tina Brown's online publication The Daily Beast would launch its new fashion and entertainment section, ... [FishbowlNY]

Columnist Archerd Dies|CBS Tries Bribing Blogger With $20 Gift Card|What Do New Yorkers Say They Like To Read On The Subway?|Daily Beast Hires 24-Year-Old Editor|Fallon Ends Olbermann-Beck Beef - Posted September 9, 2009
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Newsweek Feeds The Beast - Posted August 21, 2009
A week after beefing up staff on the West Coast, The Daily Beast adds to its New York team. The site ... [FishbowlNY]

Former Portfolio.com Staffer Lands TV Gig - Posted August 18, 2009
BloombergTV has brought on online and print veteran Dan Colarusso to serve as managing editor of U.S. television for the network, ... [FishbowlNY]

Daily Beast Continues To Build West Coast Staff - Posted August 11, 2009
Our colleagues at FishbowlLA have a story today about Tina Brown's latest hire for The Daily Beast. According to Dylan Stableford Brown has snagged Los An... [FishbowlNY]

After Witnessing Layoffs and Cutbacks Firsthand -- And Surviving -- Are Newspaper Journalists Better Prepared To Cover Economic Woes? - Posted July 27, 2009
Connie Schultz, a columnist at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, used h... [FishbowlNY]

ABC Pays $200K For Jackson Interview|Who Inappropriately Touched David Brooks?|Pageviews May Have Sealed Froomkin's Fate. Or Not.|Journal-er Dana Heads To Daily Beast|Search Wars: Twitter vs. Google - Posted July 13, 2009
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Econ... [FishbowlNY]

Sanford Fesses Up|Doppelt, Brown Together Again|New York Mag Digs Up Info On Rohde Kidnapping|If Amanpour Is Ever Kidnapped, She Wants It Publicized|Why Does The Public Hate The Media? - Posted June 24, 2009
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Econ... [FishbowlNY]

Author Douglas Rushkoff Talks Iran & Twitter On The Menu - Posted June 18, 2009
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Media Web Turns 10|Vote For An AgencySpy-Inspired Short Film|Glamour Gets Infected|Playboy CEO Flanders Believes In Print|IAC CEO Diller Says No To Ads On Daily Beast - Posted June 10, 2009
TVNewser: Jon Friedman's Media Web ... [FishbowlNY]

Web Voters Award Sklar Two Mirror Award People's Choice Prizes - Posted May 21, 2009
Former Huffington Post contributor Rachel Sklar nabbed two People's Choice awards following online voting for Mirror Award nominees. 2009 marks the third year that Syracuse University's S.I. Newho... [FishbowlNY]

Times Columnist Carr Talks About Future Of Newspapers - Posted May 19, 2009
After writing about future of his own paper in his column yesterday, New York Times media columnist David Carr... [FishbowlNY]

The Daily Beast Scoops the New York Post - Posted May 6, 2009
At 5:02 p.m. yesterday, The Daily Beast's Stryker McGuire ... [FishbowlNY]

The Huffington Post Recruits Biz Dev VP - Posted May 5, 2009
These new media properties are getting increasingly serious about the business side of their operations. Last week, The Daily Beast ... [FishbowlNY]

The Daily Beast Signs Up Google Vet as VP of Biz Dev - Posted April 30, 2009
Tina Brown's The Daily Beast is getting serious about building revenue. The Internet start-up hired Brian Dick... [FishbowlNY]

Former Onion CEO Joins Nerve.com - Posted April 23, 2009
Sean Mills, who joined The Onion in 2002 and eventually became president of the satirical paper, left to ... [FishbowlNY]

The Daily Beast Strikes Ad Deal With Bottega Veneta - Posted April 10, 2009
We mentioned in a post a week or so ago that, after remaining mostly ad-free since its launch last year, The Daily Beast... [FishbowlNY]

True/Slant Launches, Experiments With Sponsored Content - Posted April 9, 2009
At this point it's becoming fairly clear that as the panic increases over the demise of newspapers we are entering an era of 'we're willing to try anything' decision making (closing papers as bargaining tactic, anyone?), which may or may not result in a blurring and/or redefining of ethical lines when... [FishbowlNY]

The Daily Beast: Advertising Deal in the Works - Posted March 31, 2009
Crain's currently has a piece up about The Daily Beast's advertising plan, or apparent lack thereof. The ar... [FishbowlNY]

HuffPo Launching Three New Pages - Posted March 25, 2009
Looks like HuffPo is getting ready for more additions. Take a look at this job listing from our jobs page:The Huffington Post is looking for web editors wi... [FishbowlNY]

Tina Brown Discusses The Beast With David Carr - Posted February 26, 2009
Tina Brown sat down with David Carr -- who'd just returned from his Carpetbagger stint out in Hollywood and was sporting a rather sharp goatee -- last night for an all things media chat hosted by the Center for Publishing at NYU-SCPS held at NYU's prestigious (and packed) Greenberg Lounge. ... [FishbowlNY]

Liz Smith's Long Goodbye: 'I Will Go Bravely On!' - Posted February 26, 2009
Today is Liz Smith's last column at the New York Post. Even if you... [FishbowlNY]

Mashable: The State of the NYC Blogosphere is Crowded - Posted February 25, 2009
Despite tough times, or perhaps because of them, last night's Mashable 'State of the New York Blogosphere' ... [FishbowlNY]

Gawker Named 'Most Valuable Blog' - Posted February 23, 2009
Gawker may be slimming down...again! But that hasn't stopped finance blog 24/7 Wall St. ... [FishbowlNY]

What is it About David Letterman that Brings Out the Crazy in People? - Posted February 13, 2009
In light of Joaquin Phoenix's meltdown/performance art appearance on David Letterman the other night The Daily Beast has put togethe... [FishbowlNY]

Obama's Press Conference: A How-To Guide - Posted February 11, 2009
The Daily Beast breaks it down. sss... [FishbowlNY]

Tina Brown Discusses The Book Beast: 'It's Really Important to Support Books' - Posted February 6, 2009
Anyone with even a passing interest in books is by now painfully aware of the struggles the publishing industry is currently undergoing. Troubles came to a head last December when widespread layoffs were announced at both Random House an... [FishbowlNY]

Should Google Start Paying for News Content? - Posted February 3, 2009
Everyone who reads this blog knows that the question of how the newspaper industry can be saved (also known as, 'Is print dead?') is pretty much the only conversation happening these days. And at the rate things are going it's a question that needs to be answered sooner than later... [FishbowlNY]

Shots From Today's Daily Beast Inaugural Brunch - Posted January 18, 2009
The Daily Beast and Morning Joe crews jointly hosted a well-attended (though tricky to-get-to courtesy of a myriad of road blocks) brunch this morning at the Council on Foreign Relations building. While plenty of bold-fac... [FishbowlNY]

Ana Marie Cox Joins Air America - Posted January 13, 2009
Ana Marie Cox has a new gig. The former Wonkette, ... [FishbowlNY]

Osnos in Defense of The New York Times - Posted December 30, 2008
There is a certain irony involved in the former head of (the currently very troubled) Random House penning a defense of the New York Times. Nevertheless that's what ... [FishbowlNY]

Camelot, You Know, Meets the Media 2.0 - Posted December 29, 2008
It's hard to imagine a more slippery, difficult media environment in which to launch your (very first political) campaign for a Senate seat than the one Caroline Kennedy... [FishbowlNY]

Conrad Black on Wolff's Murdoch - Posted December 17, 2008
Say what you will about Conrad Black, he is certainly making the most of his jail time. Today he makes an appearance at The Daily Beast to weigh in on ... [FishbowlNY]

Ana Marie Cox Leaves Swampland - Posted December 8, 2008
Ana Marie Cox announced in a post on Friday that she is leaving the Time po... [FishbowlNY]

The Daily Beast: A Half-Way House for Laid Off Writers - Posted December 3, 2008
Timing is everything, these days most particularly where web launches are concerned. Despite all the bold-faced names she promised to include back in 2005 Arianna Huffington could never have predicted the coming election furor that would launch... [FishbowlNY]

Tina Brown on The Daily Beast: 'I Spend a Hell of a Lot of Time in My Pajamas' - Posted November 24, 2008
One sometimes wonders if Tina Brown's The Daily Beast would have had such an easy time defining itself if not for the sprawling presence of the ... [FishbowlNY]

Partying With Tina Brown and The Daily Beast: 'I Would Never Ask a Writer to Work for Free' - Posted November 19, 2008
Tina Brown's The Daily Beast, which has been making headlines since it launched last month, threw a launch part of sorts at Pop Burger in the meat-packing district last night. Everyone'... [FishbowlNY]

Election '08: Even in Hindsight the Media Loved Obama More - Posted November 10, 2008
The Monday morning election quarterbacking continues. Perhaps you won't be surprised to hear that, according to those who write about such things, the media did not perform well. Over at the Washington Post the resident ombudsman ... [FishbowlNY]

Arianna Huffington and Tina Brown: The 2.0 Version - Posted October 27, 2008
It comes as no surprise that now that The Daily Beast is a (well-ish known) we are being greeted by the requisite storyline casting Arianna Huffington and ... [FishbowlNY]

Radar Aftermath: Ana Marie Cox Requesting Your Help - Posted October 27, 2008
So, what happens when a magazine and website suddenly fold with very little notice (as in the announcement is made mid-morning and everyone has to be out by 3pm)? Well lot's of things we imagine, includi... [FishbowlNY]

Christopher Buckley on Reliable Sources: 'The Discourse has Become a Little Calcified and Sclerotic' - Posted October 20, 2008
On this weekend's Reliable Sources former ... [FishbowlNY]

Page Six Magazine Hires Sara Cardace - Posted October 13, 2008
FBNY has confirmed that Sara Cardace will be joining Page Six Magazine as a senior staff writer, beginning October 23. Cardace is currently a contributing writer at New York Magazine, as well as the interviews editor at Vulture, nymag.com's arts and entertainment ... [FishbowlNY]

Philadelphia Daily News Issues Cease-and-Desist to The Daily Beast - Posted October 10, 2008
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, also cause for a law suit! The other day we, and others, noted the striking similarity between the logo for ... [FishbowlNY]

Tina Brown, Revisited - Posted August 7, 2008
We now have more details on the Tina Brown/Barry Diller online partnership that Radar ... [FishbowlNY]