Tina Brown's " Daily Beast "

Well angelic smokes. Tina Brown's SEVENTH ACT in media, her website beneath the advocacy of Barry Diller's IAC, is advancing very, actual soon, we hear. Finally, it has a name! Says, of course, Liz Smith today:

Tina Brown and I had an accomplished babble afore Hillary showed. The senator's biographer has been active assuming her cartoon of a new journalism Web website to administrator Barry Diller. It will be alleged The Daily Beast, in admiration to Evelyn Waugh's archetypal atypical Scoop. And Barry, I suppose, will play the role of the Beast's Lord Copper.


Most of us accept been calling the website an aggregator, an abstraction that disappoints. But we aswell apprehend that "magazine" is not a abhorrent descriptor either. Still, we all accept little clue as to who's alive there, and absolutely what they will be alive on. And we aswell apperceive that "journalism" is not the 2.0 financially-successful archetypal of choice—witness Gawker Media's Nick Denton accusation the LA Times' account cartage today. Aggregation and annotation (see: HuffPo) and tip-box coursing (and, to be sure, a blog-style, Google-friendly website) pays off—foreign bureaus, and a website that emulates a newspaper, allegedly not necessarily so much!