The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast is a US news and opinion website. It was founded in 2008 by Tina Brown , previously an editor at Vanity Fair and The New Yorker . The owner is the Internet company InterActiveCorp (IAC).
history
Part of the webzine is self-generated content, while the rest consists of links to posts from other news sources.
Founder Tina Brown was the editor until September 2013. She was followed by John Avlon, followed by Noah Shachtman in May 2018.
The editorial focus (described John Avlon in 2018 as a "nonpartisan but not neutral" but not impartial neutral .): "We're going to hit bothsides Where Appropriate, but we're not going for mythic moral equivalence on every issue. “( We meet both sides when appropriate, but we don't follow the myth of moral balance on any subject ). And elsewhere: “We seek out scoops, scandals, and stories about secret worlds; we love Confronting bullies, bigots, and hypocrites. "( we feel hit, scandals and stories from the hidden corners, to offer we love it, bad monsters, fanatics and hypocrites forehead ).
In 2009 The Daily Beast reached three million unique visitors per month. In September 2014 the record level of 21 million per month was set.
From November 2010 to 2013, The Daily Beast formed a joint venture with the news magazine Newsweek .
The Webby Awards 2012 and 2013 was The Daily Beast awarded news site.
Naming
The name of the site comes from the novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh in which a fictional newspaper called so. Waugh, who himself had reported from abroad for the Daily Mail , caricatured sensational journalism and the life of foreign correspondents in this 1938 novel.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ed Pilkington: Tina Brown unveils Daily Beast , The Guardian . October 6, 2008.
- ^ The Daily Beast Is Buzzing with Solid Scoops and an Editor Who Knows How to Spread the Word . mediaite.com, April 24, 2018
- ↑ Big changes at the Daily Beast: EIC John Avlon to CNN; Noah Shachtman to replace him . Washington Post, May 24, 2018
- ^ Motoko Rich: The Daily Beast Seeks to Speed Up the Publishing Process for Books , The New York Times . September 29, 2009. Retrieved September 28, 2009.
- ^ Hadas Gold: One year after Tina Brown exit, Daily Beast traffic surges . In: Politico . October 1, 2014.
- ↑ Media merger in the USA: The Old and the Beast. In: SpOn. November 12, 2010, accessed November 13, 2010 .
- ^ The Daily Beast: Tina Brown Launches Much-Awaited News Site . Retrieved February 23, 2011.