Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Thinking Beyond the Online Banner
Considering the magazine-heavy resume of The Daily Beast founder Tina Brown, it stands to reason the Web publisher would take her cues from that world.
Considering the magazine-heavy resume of The Daily Beast founder Tina Brown, it stands to reason the Web publisher would take her cues from that world.
Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired, believes in logic the way Tina Brown believes in buzz.
It wasn’t so long ago ago that Tina Brown and Bonnie Fuller were busy transforming entire magazine genres. They lived on opposite ends of the taste spectrum–Brown edited Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, Fuller revamped Glamour, then re-invented the celebrity gossip concept at Us Weekly and later the Star–but the two had a similar [...]
Former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown has more than her much-ballyhooed bio of Bill and Hillary Clinton coming down the pipeline: Radar has learned that the erstwhile “Queen of Buzz” is partnering with InterActiveCorp (IACI) honcho Barry Diller to launch her own news aggregator Web site.
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