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By Stephen Foster on October 18, 2012
The Guardian may or may be going all-digital but Newsweek is. Famous old news weekly Newsweek was sold to Sydney Harman by the Washington Post four years ago and merged with Tina Brown’s Daily Beast online news and comment site two years later. The Beasties struggled manfully to make a go of it but have [...]
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By Stuart Smith on January 16, 2012
Creatives, sharpen your pencils. Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, has a new challenge for you. Well, not ‘new’ perhaps; more “retro”. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hone those copy skills which you might, if you were extremely lucky, have learned at the knee of David Abbott or, very distantly indeed, Bill [...]
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By Staff on May 18, 2011
It’s early days yet of course but Stephen Colvin, president of the Newsweek Daily Beast company, says the merger between the venerable weekly news magazine and Tina Brown’s Daily Beast website is paying off, in terms of ad pages as well as readers. This is from Business Insider. Could Newsweek be past its problems? Stephen [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Ad Age, business insider, credit suisse, media industry newsletter, mrs Harold Evans, newsweek daily beast, Stephen Colvin, time, Tina Brown
By Stephen Foster on February 7, 2011
One-time market-leading ISP AOL has been trying to reinvent itself as an online content provider since it split from Time Warner in 2009 and now CEO Tim Armstrong has bet the ranch on Arianna Huffington and her Huffington Post, the left-leaning political super blog. AOL is paying $315m for the Huff Post ($300m in cash) [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged AOL, Arianna Huffington, daily beast, huffington post, mapquest, moviefone, newsweek, Tim Armstrong, time warner, Tina Brown
By Angie Dean on January 11, 2011
And so does FriendFinder Network, owner of Penthouse which actually offered slightly more than Hugh Hefner’s $207m for the listed publisher. But Hefner, who is 84 and founded the magazine in December 1953, owned a blocking stake in the company. Sales of the iconic men’s magazine are dropping through the floor but CEO Scott Flanders, [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Barry Diller, bloomberg, business week, daily beast, friendfinder network, Hugh Hefner, magazines, newsweek, penthouse, playboy, Scott Flanders, Sidney Harman, Tina Brown
By Staff on November 28, 2010
The Wikileaks revelations are sending the world’s politicians, diplomats and media into a funk, so there’s a danger that these explosive revelations about the CIA’s views of the world leaders of adland may be overlooked. But they have come into our possession and, fearless to a fault, we’re going to share them with you. The [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged Don Draper, Maurice Levy, Michael Roth, Sir Martin Sorrell, Tina Brown, Vincent Bollore, wikileaks
By Stephen Foster on November 12, 2010
Tina Brown, former editor of the Tatler, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, is back in the print business as her Daily Beast news and gossip website is to merge with Newsweek, the venerable news weekly recently purchased by US businessman Sidney Harman for one dollar. The new company is to be called the Newsweek [...]
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