13 posts and columns on Tina Brown

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Howcast Co-Founder Jumps to Daily Beast

in Media on May 3, 2011 at 8:51 am PT

Daniel Blackman, a Google vet who co-founded how-to video startup Howcast four years ago, has left the company and is now chief digital officer at Newsweek/Daily Beast Co., the print/Web mashup now run by Tina Brown. Blackman sent out a group e-mail announcing the change this morning; I’ve asked him and Howcast co-founder Jason Liebman for comment.

Facebook to Big Media: We Like You. We Really, Really Like You.

in Media on December 16, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Facebook has 550 million friends, but it’s working extra hard to woo a very specific group: Heavyweight media companies. It might be working! See: A proposed linkup between the social network, Time Warner’s cable channels and Verizon’s FiOS TV.

QOTD: The Old Media – New Media – Old Media Round Trip

Well, I managed to leave print journalism for all of four weeks.

Daily Beast media columnist Howard Kurtz, whose work used to appear in the Washington Post, and will now appear in Newsweek, now that the magazine is merging with his new employer.

Newsweek, Daily Beast to Merge

in News on November 11, 2010 at 5:56 pm PT

Newsweek magazine and news website The Daily Beast have agreed to a deal that will make Daily Beast co-founder Tina Brown the editor-in-chief of the combined operation, according to people familiar with the situation, three weeks after they abandoned talks of a merger over a disagreement about control.

Strong Personalities Color Talks Between Newsweek, Daily Beast

in News on October 11, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Newsweek magazine and the Daily Beast news website are deep in talks over a possible combination and the likelihood of a deal is increasing, though some hurdles remain. The key question hanging over talks is whether a merged operation would be big enough for the three outsize personalities that such a deal would bring together, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Daily Beast's Tina Brown Brags About "Interesting Discussions" With Newsweek

in Media on October 6, 2010 at 7:13 am PT

How are things at the Daily Beast, which turns two today? Awesome, says Tina Brown–so awesome that Barry Diller may end up pawning the thing off to Newsweek and new owner Sidney Harman.

Viral Video: The Beast on Oscar Do's and Don'ts

in News on February 19, 2009 at 6:39 am PT

The increasingly entertaining online content site, The Beast, edited by Tina Brown, is getting very good at putting together juicy collections. Besides one on “Seven Great Talk-Show Trainwrecks” recently, it has cued up a nice group of videos of past Oscar speeches in anticipation of the 81st annual awards show this weekend, analyzing what works and what does not.
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More Media Layoff/Shutdown Roundup: Time Inc., Forbes, NBC Universal, IAC

in Media on December 4, 2008 at 7:17 am PT

If you had any romantic notion that the beginning of holiday season meant an end to media layoff season, think again. This looks to be a particularly bad few days at Time Inc., where many of the magazines that asked workers to quit last month will now be firing them instead. But there are cuts, or planned cuts, coming to all manner of media companies.

New GM for IAC's Secret Tina Brown Project

in News on May 21, 2008 at 12:05 am PT

Ok, not that secret a project. BoomTown has known about it forever and Radar Online gave the lowdown about the creation of the hip-sounding news aggregator Web site–headed by high-profile editor Tina Brown–by Barry Diller’s IAC in a report in early April. While still in its planning stages, though, it just hired a new GM to run the business: Caroline Marks.
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