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October 7, 2008updated 07 Nov 2023 5:49am

Tina Brown on her new web venture: The Daily Beast is your omnivorous friend

By Dominic wireposts

Mag supremo Tina Brown today opened her new website – The Daily Beast – which was yesterday password protected.

And at first glance it appears to be an impressive comeback from the British-born US magazine queen – with some serious technological and editorial muscle behind it.

The Daily Beast marks Brown’s publishing comeback following the disastrous closure of Talk magazine in 2001 after racking up massive losses.
She made her name by reviving the fortunes of the New Yorker in the early Nineties by, among other things, replacing 65 staff with 72 of her own picking.

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