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|title=Tina Brown Talks About the Book Beast |publisher=[[Mediabistro]]|date=February 6, 2009 |accessdate=May 30, 2010}}</ref> "Hungry Beast", and "Sexy Beast",<ref name="medialite">{{cite web | url=http://www.mediaite.com/online/sexy-beast-sexy-branding-the-daily-beast-unveils-new-style-section/| title=Sexy Beasts, Sexy Branding: The Daily Beast & Politico Unveil New Style Sections | publisher=[[Mediaite]] | accessdate=August 10, 2009}}</ref> a Fashion and Entertainment section. The site frequently creates encyclopedic landing pages on topical subjects such as [[Inauguration of Barack Obama|Obama’s inauguration]], the [[Bernard Madoff]] [[Ponzi scheme]], [[Michael Jackson]], the Iran uprising, and the [[US Open (tennis)|US Open]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmaker/us-open-beast?cid=bsa:hottopics|title=U.S. Open - The Daily Beast|accessdate=March 4, 2010}}</ref>
|title=Tina Brown Talks About the Book Beast |publisher=[[Mediabistro]]|date=February 6, 2009 |accessdate=May 30, 2010}}</ref> "Hungry Beast", and "Sexy Beast",<ref name="medialite">{{cite web | url=http://www.mediaite.com/online/sexy-beast-sexy-branding-the-daily-beast-unveils-new-style-section/| title=Sexy Beasts, Sexy Branding: The Daily Beast & Politico Unveil New Style Sections | publisher=[[Mediaite]] | accessdate=August 10, 2009}}</ref> a Fashion and Entertainment section. The site frequently creates encyclopedic landing pages on topical subjects such as [[Inauguration of Barack Obama|Obama’s inauguration]], the [[Bernard Madoff]] [[Ponzi scheme]], [[Michael Jackson]], the Iran uprising, and the [[US Open (tennis)|US Open]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmaker/us-open-beast?cid=bsa:hottopics|title=U.S. Open - The Daily Beast|accessdate=March 4, 2010}}</ref>


''The Daily Beast'' contributors include: [[Christopher Buckley]], [[Scott Turow]], [[Mark McKinnon]], [[Douglas Rushkoff]], [[Matthew Yglesias]], [[Meghan McCain]], [[Reihan Salam]], [[Tony Blair]], [[Condoleezza Rice]], [[Gerald Posner]], [[Simon Schama]], [[Eric Alterman]], [[Reza Aslan]], [[Fatima Bhutto]], [[Kirsten Powers]], [[Howard Kurtz]], and others including Brown herself.
''The Daily Beast'' contributors include: [[Christopher Buckley]], [[Scott Turow]], [[Mark McKinnon]], [[Douglas Rushkoff]], [[Matthew Yglesias]], [[Meghan McCain]], [[Reihan Salam]], [[Tony Blair]], [[Condoleezza Rice]], [[Gerald Posner]], [[Simon Schama]], [[Eric Alterman]], [[Reza Aslan]], [[Fatima Bhutto]], [[Kirsten Powers]], [[Howard Kurtz]], [[Judith Miller (journalist)|Judith Miller]],
and others including Brown herself.


Major advertising, from brands such as [[HBO]], [[British Airways]], [[Bottega Veneta]], [[Patricia Cornwell]], and [[Bravo!]], are featured on the site.<ref name="adweek">{{cite web | url=http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/digital/e3iedade07084ff11593161f7940dae2cc7?pn=2p | title=Thinking Beyond the Online Banner | publisher=[[AdWeek]] | accessdate=June 7, 2009|date=June 7, 2009}}</ref>
Major advertising, from brands such as [[HBO]], [[British Airways]], [[Bottega Veneta]], [[Patricia Cornwell]], and [[Bravo!]], are featured on the site.<ref name="adweek">{{cite web | url=http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/digital/e3iedade07084ff11593161f7940dae2cc7?pn=2p | title=Thinking Beyond the Online Banner | publisher=[[AdWeek]] | accessdate=June 7, 2009|date=June 7, 2009}}</ref>

Revision as of 10:58, 18 December 2010

The Daily Beast
Editor in ChiefTina Brown
CompanyThe Daily Beast Newsweek Publishing
Country United States
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.thedailybeast.com
For the fictional newspaper, see Scoop (novel).

The Daily Beast is an American news reporting and opinion website founded and published by Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker as well as the short-lived Talk Magazine. About one-third of its content is original, while the rest is aggregated links to articles written by other news outlets.[1] The Daily Beast was launched on October 6, 2008, and is owned by IAC. Edward Felsenthal, a former Wall Street Journal editor, is the site's executive editor, and Stephen Colvin is its president.

The name of the site is derived from that of the fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop.[2]

On November 12, 2010, The Daily Beast and Newsweek announced a merger deal, creating the combined company "The Daily Beast Newsweek Publishing."

Format

One of the features of The Daily Beast is the "Cheat Sheet", billed as "must reads from all over". Published daily, the "Cheat Sheet" offers a selection of articles from online news outlets on popular stories. The "Cheat Sheet" includes brief summaries of the article, and a link to read the full text of the article on the website of its provider.

Since launch, the site has introduced additional sections, including a video "Cheat Sheet", "Book Beast",[3] "Hungry Beast", and "Sexy Beast",[4] a Fashion and Entertainment section. The site frequently creates encyclopedic landing pages on topical subjects such as Obama’s inauguration, the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, Michael Jackson, the Iran uprising, and the US Open.[5]

The Daily Beast contributors include: Christopher Buckley, Scott Turow, Mark McKinnon, Douglas Rushkoff, Matthew Yglesias, Meghan McCain, Reihan Salam, Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice, Gerald Posner, Simon Schama, Eric Alterman, Reza Aslan, Fatima Bhutto, Kirsten Powers, Howard Kurtz, Judith Miller, and others including Brown herself.

Major advertising, from brands such as HBO, British Airways, Bottega Veneta, Patricia Cornwell, and Bravo!, are featured on the site.[6]

Business

Popularity

According to a The New York Times article, The Daily Beast had reached three million unique visitors per month as of September 28, 2009.[7]

Beast Books

In September 2009, The Daily Beast launched a publishing initiative entitled Beast Books that will produce books by Beast writers on an accelerated publishing schedule.[7]

Merger with Newsweek

Tina Brown, The Daily Beast's editor, confirmed in November 2010 that the website would merge with Newsweek, following extensive negotiations between the publications' proprietors.[8][9] The new company will be The Newsweek Daily Beast Company.

Plagiarism controversy

In February 2010, Jack Shafer of Slate.com claimed that the chief investigative reporter for The Daily Beast, Gerald Posner, had lifted five sentences from a Miami Herald article and claimed that he had written them himself and was able to publish them in The Daily Beast under his own name. Shafer also discovered that Posner had written plagiarised content from a Miami Herald blog, a Miami Herald editorial, Texas Lawyer magazine and a healthcare journalism blog. An immediate internal investigation by The Daily Beast led to Posner's departure.[10]

Rankings controversy

The Daily Beast has released several university rankings, which have received criticism for unscientific data and analysis. In 2010 they released a ranking of the "50 Druggiest Colleges" citing data from College Prowler, a web site that allows open posting by users. [11]

References

  1. ^ Pilkington, Ed (October 6, 2008). "Tina Brown unveils Daily Beast". London: The Guardian. Retrieved October 6, 2008.
  2. ^ "The Daily Beast: Tina Brown Launches Much-Awaited News Site".
  3. ^ "Tina Brown Talks About the Book Beast". Mediabistro. February 6, 2009. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
  4. ^ "Sexy Beasts, Sexy Branding: The Daily Beast & Politico Unveil New Style Sections". Mediaite. Retrieved August 10, 2009.
  5. ^ "U.S. Open - The Daily Beast". Retrieved March 4, 2010.
  6. ^ "Thinking Beyond the Online Banner". AdWeek. June 7, 2009. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
  7. ^ a b Rich, Motoko (September 29, 2009). "The Daily Beast Seeks to Speed Up the Publishing Process for Books". The New York Times. Retrieved September 28, 2009. Cite error: The named reference "NYTimes" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  8. ^ Brown, Tina (November 11, 2010). "Daily Beast, Newsweek to Wed!". The Daily Beast. Retrieved November 12, 2010.
  9. ^ "The Daily Beast and Newsweek confirm merger". The Spy Report. Media Spy. November 12, 2010. Retrieved November 12, 2010.
  10. ^ "Author Gerald Posner quits Daily Beast amid plagiarism allegations" Miami Herald, February 11, 2010
  11. ^ "Local colleges rank high on dope list" Boston Herald, December 14, 2010
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