Gap model and former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan announced on Sunday that his blog, The Daily Dish, will be relocating from The Atlantic to The Daily Beast/Newsweek/Tina Brown’s Slide-Show Concern come April. “The chance to be part of a whole new experiment in online and print journalism, in the Daily Beast and Newsweek adventure, is just too fascinating and exciting a challenge to pass up,” he wrote. Sullivan’s switch is the latest in a series of high-profile hires for the burgeoning behemoths The Daily Beast/Newsweek and its competition, the AOL/The Huffington Post. In the past few moths, the Huffington Post has picked up New York Times economics correspondent Peter Goodman, New York Times Sunday Business editor Tim O’Brien, Newsweek’s Howard Fineman, Andy Wiedlin, a former vice president of sales at Yahoo, and Brian Kaminsky, a vice president of global revenue operations at Reuters,...
- 2/28/2011
- Vanity Fair
Arianna Huffington, whose Huffington Post was just snapped up by AOL for $315 million, is a master of reinvention-from conservative activist to gubernatorial candidate to liberal Web entrepreneur-but she tells Howard Kurtz her new position will be her "last act." Plus, some of Huffington's most-devoted users are livid about the sale of their favorite news site to AOL, according to a Daily Beast survey of their commenters.
AOL's surprise purchase of The Huffington Post is, without question, a triumph for Arianna Huffington, for online media, for new and shiny over old and stodgy, and perhaps for AOL, a former powerhouse that is now a hodgepodge of popular and not-so-popular sites.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Nice Rhetoric, but Need Real Results
But the deal also raises a slew of inevitable questions about what happens when an entrepreneur builds something that catches on and then sells it to a big corporation.
AOL's surprise purchase of The Huffington Post is, without question, a triumph for Arianna Huffington, for online media, for new and shiny over old and stodgy, and perhaps for AOL, a former powerhouse that is now a hodgepodge of popular and not-so-popular sites.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Nice Rhetoric, but Need Real Results
But the deal also raises a slew of inevitable questions about what happens when an entrepreneur builds something that catches on and then sells it to a big corporation.
- 2/8/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
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