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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. ...
'Sumner Being Sumner': Demands Writer's Source
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(July 21) -- Has Sumner Redstone learned his lesson? The media mogul left a voice mail for the author of a Daily Beast story, demanding to know who leaked information saying Redstone was taken with an all-girl group, the Electric Barbarellas, and wanted Viacom-owned MTV to air a reality show about the scantily clad band, though MTV brass were reluctant. Redstone, the 87-year-old chairman of Viacom and CBS, left a three-minute voice mail for writer Peter Lauria, who posted it online. "We're not going to kill him. We just want to talk to him. We're not going to fire him. We just want to talk ...
Germany, Uruguay Playing for 'Empty Cup'?
By David Moye - AOL News(July 9) -- If some people call the World Cup championship the biggest sporting event on the planet, what should the tournament's third-place game be called? The "Empty Cup"? Germany and Uruguay face off Saturday in the not-so-big game, and each country will be fighting for the right to yell "We're No. 3! We're No. 3! We're No. 3!" for the next four years. Along with ties, using points instead of wins to determine standings, and trying to draw penalties on the other team by faking injuries, the third-place game is yet another one of those things about soccer that Americans just don't get ...
Army: Alleged Wikileaker Swiped Thousands of Files
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 6) -- The Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking a classified video of a U.S. helicopter strike in Iraq to a whistle-blower website also allegedly stole State Department cables and Defense Department PowerPoints, according to criminal charges released today. Pfc. Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Md., was charged with 12 counts of illegally transferring classified data onto his personal computer and giving it to an unauthorized source. The soldier, attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division in Iraq, was arrested May 26 and is being held in detention ...
Rielle Hunter Bares Love For 'Johnny' Edwards
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyAt last! Rielle Hunter, mistress and love-child mama to twice-failed Democratic White House wannabe John Edwards, bares her soul--her trim midriff and silky thighs--to GQ. The woman whose calling card to an Edwards campaign aide proclaimed "Rielle Hunter. Being is Free," says she's never been a "gold-digger" or a "stalker" in the relationship where Edwards "held all the power," and though she slept with him in a New York hotel room the night they met, she denied they had sex in the bed he shared with his wife Elizabeth in North Carolina. Hunter, 45, calls the couple's 33-year marriage ...
1 Year Later, How's Obama Doing?
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL NewsWhether or not Tuesday's voting turns out to be a referendum on President Obama, people are already making it clear how they feel about his job performance one year after his election. Obama has a 54 percent approval rating in a new CNN poll, nearly matching the 53 percent of the vote he got last November. What's changed in a year is that he's gained popularity among liberals and lost it among conservatives. And while the president remains above 50 percent in overall approval, most of the Americans CNN surveyed don't like the way he's dealt with such key issues as unemployment, health care ...
As Flu Spreads, Some Panic
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL NewsFirst, the swine flu story line was about how many people didn't want the vaccine. Now that there's less of it than officials promised, people are clamoring for the vaccine and a type of public hysteria is becoming part of the story. "I've never seen it like this," a besieged doctor's office administrator in suburban Atlanta told USA Today. "That name, H1N1, sends parents into a panic." There's been "a lot of verbal abuse" from patients who can't get the vaccine, she added. Sasha and Malia Obama got their flu shots from a White House doctor, and in an unscientific survey of our readers, 55 ...
The Book Obama Can't Seem to Finish
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe phase "Washington Read" refers to buying a political book, looking through the index for your name, and reading only the sections that refer to you. Then, you display the book in a prominent place along with the other political tomes that have not been cracked further than the index. ...
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