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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. ...
Feminism: The Belief That You Own Your Body and Are Man's Equal
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyIt wasn't too long ago that the word "feminism" or "feminist" had nearly vanished from our everyday chatter, consigned to the dust bin of passé labels. But here it is right back, rearing its many heads, pitting nice and sensible women against one another. The moment Sarah Palin revived the term "feminist" and injected it into the current political debate, laying claim to its mantle and hailing conservative Republican female candidates -- she calls them "mama grizzlies" -- as an "emerging, conservative, feminist identity," we all went a little bit out of our minds. Those "mama grizzlies" are ...
Women in New Media: At the Top or in the Trenches?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyHere's good news! A quick tour of new and improved news-and-infotainment websites -- dozens of them -- reveals that women by the droves are successfully making the leap from old journalism to new media. Just the other day, as if to underscore this trend, a Business Insider article featured 25 media stars that have made that leap, and 13 of them -- 52 percent -- are women. Maybe that's not such a big number, but it looms large next to the pitiful number of women (six) named by the National Law Journal among the 40 most influential lawyers of the decade. Worse, the investor George Soros, the ...
Does Tina Brown Think Hillary Looks Fat?
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailySecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. President Barack Obama. I love America. Although racism and sexism obviously still exist, in my lengthening lifetime, the civil rights and feminist movements have had distinctly measurable impact. Speaking of Hillary Clinton, Nigerian election commentary aside, wasn't she great over in Africa? Finally sick of filtering her own achievements through those of her husband's behemoth persona, she put her foot down when some idiot in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, wanted to know more about Bill. As if her ears ...
On the Style and Substance of Hillary Clinton
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyJill, I actually liked Hillary Clinton's shorter haircut better, but I only caught the audio of the speech Wednesday, so I missed the new, longer hair look. What I did catch was how much of the speech was dedicated to acknowledging that it was the president who set the foreign policy agenda and outlining the specific roles Clinton would be taking on. ...
The 'Gig Economy' Takes Hold in America
By David Knowles - Politics DailyOver at The Daily Beast, editor Tina Brown spots an ominous employment trend: Careers are becoming a thing of the past. In their place, the workforce is being forced to stitch together a combination of short-term, part-time gigs in order to make ends meet:My own anecdotal evidence among friends is now borne out by an exclusive poll conducted last week by The Daily Beast and Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates. Five hundred employed U.S. citizens aged 18 and over were interviewed via the Internet on January 8 and 9. A full one-third of our respondents are now working either freelance or in two ...
William F. Buckley's Son for Obama
By David Knowles - Politics DailyRead all about it in Tina Brown's new juggernaut, The Daily Beast. Christopher Buckley, a successful author in his own right, started out this campaign as a McCain supporter. So what turned him away from the Arizona senator?This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget "by the end of my first term." Who, really, believes that? Then there was his self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign ...
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