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Stephen Rubin: New President Of Henry Holt

Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: Henry Holt, Stephen Rubin, Book Publishing, Publishing, Books, John Sargent, Doubleday, Dan Farley, Macmillan, Pat Conroy, Tina Brown, Da Vinci Code, John Grisham, Bill O'Reilly, Dan Brown, Bill Moyers, Books News

Finally, some news from the publishing world's revolving door: Macmillan announced this Tuesday that Stephen Rubin, former publisher at Doubleday, wil...

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Young Voices in The Future of News -- Connection, Conversation, Community

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology

Read More: Bob Woodward, Craig Newmark, Jay Rosen, Tina Brown, Sam Donaldson, Ann Curry, Newseum, Mark Zuckerberg, News Media, Facebook, Online News, Everyblock, Jav on Tech, Technology News
Jose Antonio Vargas

It's time for young journalists and, just as important, young technologists to show how news is expanding and being re-defined in a world under Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

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Beastly e-Books

The New York Times | MOTOKO RICH | Posted 09.28.2009 | Books

Read More: Authors, Tina Brown, Books, E-Books, The Daily Beast, Publishers, Books News

Having ramped up her metabolism from magazines to online journalism with The Daily Beast, Tina Brown now wants to speed up book publishing. In a join...

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Raise Your Hand if You Think Media People Have a Future

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Wolff, Tina Brown, Rupert Murdoch, Media, The Daily Beast, Tina Brown the Daily Beast, Talk Magazine, David Carr, Journalism, Media News
Michael Wolff

Media people are deeply nostalgic for the media -- for when it paid big money and was an exclusive sort of place.

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Tina Brown On Legendary 1999 Talk Magazine Launch Party: "It Seems Like That Happened In The 18th Century"

New York Times | DAVID CARR | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Talk Magazine, Tina Brown, Talk Magazine Launch Party, Tina Brown Talk Magazine, Media News

Rather than the culmination of a century of press power, the Talk party was the end of an era, a literal fin de siècle. Flush with cash from the go-g...

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Part 3: Un-Spinning Healthcare Reform - The Economics

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Public Health Insurance Plan, Family Physician, President Obama, Georgia Association of Family Physicians, Deficit Neutral, Public Health, Congress, Obama-Healthcare-Reform, Tina Brown the Daily Beast, Barack Obama, Tina Brown, Cnn, Blue Dogs, Hospitals, Republicans in Name Only, President Bush, Healthcare Reform, Georgia W. Bush, President Clinton, Rinos, Healthcare, Blue Dog Democrats, Pay-Go, National Insurance Contributions, France, England, U.K., National Health Service, Tort Reform, Defensive Medicine, Politics News
Kimberly Krautter

I don't know about you, but one thin dime for every buck you make seems like a very easy trade for being able to see the doctor any time you need to.

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Ladies, If Sarah Palin Ever Makes Sense Again on Issues Impacting Women, We Must Move More Quickly to Support Her

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sexism, Al Sharpton, Bristol Palin, Cbs, Sarah Palin, 2012, Woman, A-Rod, Comedy, Msnbc, Feminism, The Late Show, Liberals, Don Imus, Cynthia McKinney, Feminists, Politics, Nappy Headed Hoes, Shock Jock, Democrats, Neal Brootz, Racism, Women, Palin, Sarah Palin and David Letterman, Wabc, Republicans, Conservatives, Wfan, Alaska Governor, David Letterman, Women-Exploitation, Tina Brown, Politics News
Yvonne R. Davis

For the first time since she has been in the public spotlight, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was able to talk her way into an issue that really resonated with the masses.

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Stop the Music

Nora Ephron | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Susan Boyle Singing, Susan Boyle, Tina Brown, Nora Ephron, I Dream to Dream, Nora Ephron Susan Boyle, Les Miserables, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Entertainment News
Nora Ephron

The worst thing about Susan Boyle -- and there are several, but I'm going to deal with only one -- is that she sings that horrible song.

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Tina Brown to Columbia J School Students: Go to India!

Abi Wright | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media

Read More: India, Newsweek, Columbia University, Tina Brown, Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, The Daily Beast, Journalism, Columbia Journalism School, Magazines, Media News
Abi Wright

As magazines fall by the wayside, Brown explained, there would be a natural selection of sorts, which would force the surviving mags to be more inventive and thoughtful, "less formulaic."

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Live From Glamorous Washington DC!

Jane Hamsher | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Spencer Ackerman, Joseph Lowery, Crooks and Liars, Tina Brown, Morning Joe, La Figa, Huffington Post, Daily Voice, Jane Hamsher, Commonsensemedia, Obama Inauguration, Inauguration, Barack Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

The celebrities who have descended on the town provide a sharp contrast to the old, stodgy (and let's face it, overly white) days of being overrun by the helmet heads of the GOP.

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How Sexy is The Beast?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 01.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Tribune Company, The Daily Beast, Rachel Syme, Rod Blagojevich, Tina Brown, Journalism, Obama's Cabinet, Media News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Can Tina Brown salvage the dilapidated print news industry?

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Tina Brown Slams "Feckless Bureaucrats" Ruining Media Companies

The Daily Beast | Posted 01.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Layoffs, Tina Brown, Media News

The great media companies are laying off employees by the truckload. They ought to start with the feckless bureaucrats who are running the place. The...

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Tina Brown: Give "Meet The Press" To Rachel Maddow

The Daily Beast | Tina Brown | Posted 01.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Tina Brown Rachel Maddow, Rachel Maddow, Tina Brown, New Meet the Press Host, Meet the Press Successor, Meet the Press Host, Nbc, Meet the Press, Tim Russert Replacement, Media News

The Meet the Press panel needs fewer David Broders and more Christopher Hitchenses--irresponsible wits who can challenge the B-list senators and warho...

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Media Gives Thanks: What Media Figures Are Thankful For This Thanksgiving

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 12.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Martha Raddatz, Eric Bolling, Jenna Lee, Tina Brown, Bill Hemmer, Liz Claman, Thanksgiving, Terry Moran, Arianna Huffington, Joel Stein, Bonnie Fuller, Chris Wallace, Dan Harris, Christiane Amanpour, Becky Quick, Bret Baier, Willie Geist, Megyn Kelly, Joe Kernen, Lee Woodruff, Matthew Felling, Mike Barnicle, Courtney Hazlett, Major Garrett, Media News

It's been a year of ups and downs in the media industry, from the thrill of covering the Presidential election to the layoffs hitting almost every maj...

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Dominick Dunne (1925-2009): A Lovely Man Who Took No Prisoners -- Starting with Himself

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 08.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Griffin Dunne, Joan Didion, Frank Sinatra, Liz Smith, Tina Brown, Dominick Dunne, Dominick Dunne: After the Party, Vanity Fair, Oregon, Media News
Jesse Kornbluth

The story is no puzzle -- if Dunne's account is remotely accurate, the recipe for early success and midlife failure was developed at home.

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Tina Brown: Bush Library To Be "Halloween Shop Of Horrors," Presidency "A Chapter Of Hideous Accidents"

Huffington Post | Posted 12.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Video, Alison Stewart, The Rachel Maddow Show, Tina Brown, George Bush Lame Duck, Tina Brown George Bush, Media News

The Daily Beast founder and editor-in-chief Tina Brown appeared on "The Rachel Maddow Show" (guest-hosted by Alison Stewart, wife of executive produce...

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The Daily Beast: Tina Brown Launches Much-Awaited News Site

Financial Times | Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson | Posted 11.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Tina Brown Barry Diller, Tina Brown, The Daily Beast, Tina Brown the Daily Beast, Barry Diller, Media News

The struggling US magazine industry is losing one of its biggest cheerleaders to the web as Tina Brown trades the glossy pages and lengthy essays of h...

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Tina Brown To Produce "I Am Charlotte Simmons" Adaptation For HBO

Variety | Michael Fleming | Posted 10.26.2008 | Media

Read More: Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons HBO, Charlotte Simmons HBO, Tina Brown HBO, Tina Brown, I Am Charlotte Simmons, Media News

HBO is eyeing the Tom Wolfe novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons" as a series, with Tina Brown and Ostar Prods.' Bill Haber set to produce. Pay cabler has o...

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"Women, Power and Politics": How Have Women in Politics Changed the U.S. and the World?

Maria Hinojosa | Posted 10.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Ashley Judd, Chile, Rwanda, Women, Michelle Obama, Tina Brown, Woman, Sarah Palin Vice President, Girls, Politics, Sherry Lansing, Maria Bartiromo, Sarah Palin, Women and Politics, Michele Bachelet, Jeanne Shaheen, Maya Angelou, Sarah Palin Reaction, Media News
Maria Hinojosa

For me, Palin's nomination raises a significant question: Is a woman candidate always a women's candidate? How would she fight for women's causes?

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Bonnie Fuller, Tina Brown Head Online: Can Former Magazine Powerhouses Succeed On The Web?

Los Angeles Times | Maria Russo | Posted 09.11.2008 | Media

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It wasn't so long ago that Tina Brown and Bonnie Fuller were busy transforming entire magazine genres. They lived on opposite ends of the taste spectr...

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Great Head at the Midtown Tunnel

Joyce McFadden | Posted 06.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Miley Cyrus, Betty Freidan, Tina Brown, Susan Sontag, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker Magazine, Gloria Steinem, Demi Moore, The Office, Sexuality in the Media, Annie Leibovitz, Media News
Joyce McFadden

The naked woman was on her back, cupping a breast in each hand, with her legs crossed and bent at the knees. Next to her was an iced bucket of twinkling long neck beers grazing her thigh.

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Norman Mailer Remembered In Massive Carnegie Hall Memorial

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 04.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Norman Mailer, Norman Mailer Memorial, Tina Brown, Charlie Rose, Joan Didion, Sean Penn, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — You need a big block of time, and space, to say goodbye to Norman Mailer. More than 2,000 mourners filled Carnegie Hall to near capa...

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Tina Brown: My Heart Says Hillary But My Head Says McCain

WWD | Irin Carmon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Tina Brown Hillary Clinton, The Clinton Chronicles, Tina Brown the Clinton Chronicles, Tina Brown, Tina Brown Clintons, Media News

Diners -- among them Charlie Rose, Tina Brown and Sir Harry Evans, Andy Borowitz and a few Rockefellers and Roosevelts -- were asked to vote on their ...

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Tina Brown's Next Move: "The Clinton Chronicles"

AP | Hillel Italie | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Tina Brown the Clinton Chronicles, The Clinton Chronicles, Hillary Clinton, Tina Brown, Doubleday, Media News

Another Clinton book is on the way, this time by the best-selling author and former editor of The New Yorker, Tina Brown. "The Clinton Chronicles," t...

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Tina Brown's Next Move? HBO

New York Post | Liz Smith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Hbo, Tina Brown HBO, Tina Brown, Media News

'WHAT WILL Tina Brown do next?" people always ask. Here's the hot skinny on the queen of buzz. The amazing Tina Brown is in a newly struck, first-loo...

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