Tina Brown Launches The Daily Beast

Posted on October 7, 2008

Former Vanity Fair and The New Yorker editor Tina Brown has launched her long-planned website called The Daily Beast. The website carries the slogan, "Read This Skip That." The Daily Beast features blog posts, articles and video. This concept for a website is not unique as The Huffington Post features a similar array of content.

The AFP says The Daily Beast takes its name from a fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop. They also quote Tina Brown as making the following comments about The Daily Beast. Tina Brown says, "It's a speedy, smart edit of the Web from the merciless point of view of what interests the editors. We're hoping that if you like the sensibility The Daily Beast brings to choosing news and opinion then you'll trust us to be the lens you view it through."

One nifty feature on the website is the Cheat Sheet sectionwhich reviews articles of interest from around the Internet. You can read a Q&A with Tina Brown about the new website here.