The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast is a news website founded in 2008 by former Vanity Fair Magazine and New Yorker editor, Tina Brown. The Daily Beast aggregates two-thirds of their news from news sources around the Internet, with the remaining one-third of content provided by Daily Beast columnists.http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-05/tina-brown-about-the-daily-beast/ Daily Beast partners with other news sources such as Pop Eater, Politics Daily, Wonderwall and AOL to report on such topics as politics, entertainment, books, fashion, food, business and art.http://www.thedailybeast.com/

Every day, The Daily Beast publishes the "Cheat Sheet". The "Cheat Sheet" provides summaries of the most popular news stories from various news outlets and links to each article to read on its website of origin. For the winter holiday season, The Daily Beast publishes a special shopping edition of their publication Green Gifts: Gifts That Give Back. The special edition shopping guide highlights great gifts produced by environmentally-conscious companies. The Daily Beast is also available on Facebook, Twitter, email and mobile media such as iPhone. The Internet publication reaches nearly five million unique visitors each month and more than half of those visitors bookmark the site for future reference.http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-05/tina-brown-interview-the-daily-beast-turns-2/

According to media sources, The Daily Beast successfully executed a merger with Newsweek Magazine on Friday, November 12, 2010.http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101112/us_yblog_upshot/newsweek-and-the-daily-beast-join-forces According to the terms of the deal, the new joint venture will be called Newsweek Daily Beast Company. Newsweek, formerly solely owned by Sidney Harman, was in the process of identifying a new editor-in-chief of the magazine when the announcement was made.http://www.observer.com/2010/media/observer-exclusive-newsweek-and-daily-beast-merge

• Edward Felsenthal, executive editor
• Jane Spencer, managing editor
• Bryan Curtis, senior editor
• Nicholas Wapshott, senior editor
• Henry Seltzer, home page editor
• Will Doig, features editorhttp://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-05/tina-brown-about-the-daily-beast/

• Carl Bernstein
• Dan Abrams
• Paul Begala
• Fatima Bhutto
• Tony Blair
• Tucker Carlson
• George Clooney
• Perez Hilton
• Mike Huckabee
• Steve Jobs
• Meghan McCain
• Scott McClellan
• Frank McCourt
• Michael Moore
• Dan Ratherhttp://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/#contributors