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Tina Brown and Cathie Black Tackle the Impossible -- Again
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK – With a double-barreled launching of female power, two celebrated media giants, Tina Brown and Cathleen P. Black, commanded the attention of this blasé city and the nation this week. In separate moves, each has agreed to take on daunting challenges that many regard as either lost causes or unfixable problems. Each has proved her mettle in media wars, and each can claim first-woman-ever titles in some of the toughest arenas of publishing and management. Tina Brown, who made Vanity Fair into a magazine phenomenon, has agreed to merge her news and political web site, The Daily ...
Newsweek Merges With Tina Brown's Daily Beast Website
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyNewsweek, the venerable but declining news magazine, has joined forces with the new media by merging with the Daily Beast, a politics-oriented website co-founded by its celebrity editor, Tina Brown. Called the Newsweek Daily Beast Co., the joint venture was announced Friday by IAC, the Barry Diller company that owns the Daily Beast, which is less than two years old. Newsweek, a 77-year-old publication once ubiquitous on coffee tables from coast to coast, was purchased last summer by communications equipment magnate Sidney Harman for $1 from the Washington Post Co. The magazine, which built ...
Newsweek and The Daily Beast Will Merge
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(Nov. 12) - -Newsweek and The Daily Beast will merge and each company will own 50% of the new entity. Tina Brown, a longtime magazine editor and Daily Beast co-founder, will be editor-in-chief of the new entity. Sydney Harman, who recently bought Newsweek from The Washington Post (WPO), will be executive chairman. The agreement was first reported in The New York Observer. ...
Copycats Beware: Morning in America Can't be Replicated
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyA conservative group, Citizens for the Republic, misses the mark when it evokes the Reagan era with a 60-second commercial dubbed "Mourning in America," a gloomy recitation of economic ills set to funereal music. The original "Morning in America" ads that helped secure President Reagan's 49-state victory in 1984 were as uplifting as a Norman Rockwell painting, and they portrayed an America that was more mythical than real, which is why they were so successful. I was covering the White House then, and when the advertising team hired to produce the ads held a screening for top aides in a ...
Report: WikiLeaks Readying Massive Iraq Leak
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Sept. 10) -- WikiLeaks is allegedly preparing the "biggest leak of military intelligence that has ever occurred," three times larger than the stash of 76,000 confidential Afghan war documents released by the site in July, according to Newsweek. Iain Overton, editor of the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, told the magazine that WikiLeaks was working with several news organizations on the new documents, most of which are "U.S. military field reports related to the Iraq War." Overton said that the release would take place in "several weeks." Newsweek has previously reported ...
Newsweek Editor Out as Billionaire Buys Magazine
By not in system - AOL NewsSidney Harman, the 91-year-old hi-fi billionaire, will become the new owner of Newsweek under a contract announced Monday by the venerable magazine's current owner, The Washington Post Company. Harman promised no major changes to Newsweek's staff or editorial approach, but as word of the sale emerged, editor Jon Meacham said he would step down immediately, The New York Times reported. "It has been a privilege beyond measure to have worked for Newsweek and for The Washington Post Company for the past 15 years," Meacham wrote in an e-mail to his staff. "I will always be grateful for the ...
Sidney Harman Buys Newsweek; Jon Meacham to Step Down as Editor
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailySidney Harman, the 91-year-old hi-fi billionaire, will become the new owner of Newsweek under a contract announced by the venerable magazine's current owner, The Washington Post Company. Harman promised no major changes to Newsweek's staff or editorial approach, but as word of the sale emerged, editor Jon Meacham said he would step down immediately, The New York Times reported. "It has been a privilege beyond measure to have worked for Newsweek and for The Washington Post Company for the past 15 years," Meacham wrote in an e-mail to his staff. "I will always be grateful for the opportunity ...
The End of Men? Women in Control? This Is News?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyEvery five years or so, give or take, a female socio-multiculti-gender savant with shining credentials and a large reputation for Big Thought delivers a footnote-laden tract on the end of masculinity that reels off endless debate and buzz. This month The Atlantic magazine treats us to an eye-grabbing cover story apocalyptically titled "The End of Men" – without a question mark, so sure is the magazine and the article's author, Hanna Rosin, the co-editor of Slate's Double X, that they've got their hands on ground-breaking, irrefutable material. Prodded by my feminist conscience and the ...
Newsweek Konami Code Zombies Eliminated! But Programmers' Jobs Are Safe...
By Dana Chivvis - Politics DailyNewsweek has dealt a death blow to the Konami Code zombies gag that invaded its newly minted website last week, causing the magazine's headlines to read like sci-fi thrillers after a special, classic videogame code was punched-in by viewers. "It's true that our programmers had a bit of fun and hid the Konami Easter egg in the site. It does not affect the rest of the site's functionality. Now that we've all had a laugh, we will be removing it," Katherine W. Barna, a publicist for Newsweek, said in an email to AOL News. Newsweek added that none of their programmers had been fired over the ...
Newsweek's Ramin Setoodeh: Raging Homophobe or Tony Aspirant?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyIt's nice to see Newsweek getting mad clicks just as it's being marked down and put on the block at fire sale prices. Only unfortunately, the fuss is over an opinion piece that struck many readers as anti-gay. The article, titled "Straight Jacket," asks, "Straight actors play gay all the time; why doesn't it ever work in reverse?" Its author, Ramin Setoodeh, an openly gay guy, argues that other openly gay guys can't convincingly play straight. ...
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