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Newsweek and The Daily Beast Will Merge

(Nov. 12) - -Newsweek and The Daily Beast will merge and each company will own 50% of the new entity. Tina Brown, a longtime magazine editor and Daily Beast co-founder, will be editor-in-chief of the new entity. Sydney Harman, who recently bought Newsweek from The Washington Post (WPO), will be executive chairman. The...

'Sumner Being Sumner': Demands Writer's Source

(July 21) -- Has Sumner Redstone learned his lesson? The media mogul left a voice mail for the author of a Daily Beast story, demanding to know who leaked information saying Redstone was taken with an all-girl group, the Electric Barbarellas, and wanted Viacom-owned MTV to air a reality show about the scantily clad band,...

Germany, Uruguay Playing for 'Empty Cup'?

(July 9) -- If some people call the World Cup championship the biggest sporting event on the planet, what should the tournament's third-place game be called? The "Empty Cup"? Germany and Uruguay face off Saturday in the not-so-big game, and each country will be fighting for the right to yell "We're No. 3! We're No. 3!...

Army: Alleged Wikileaker Swiped Thousands of Files

WASHINGTON (July 6) -- The Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking a classified video of a U.S. helicopter strike in Iraq to a whistle-blower website also allegedly stole State Department cables and Defense Department PowerPoints, according to criminal charges released today. Pfc. Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac,...

1 Year Later, How's Obama Doing?

Whether or not Tuesday's voting turns out to be a referendum on President Obama, people are already making it clear how they feel about his job performance one year after his election. Obama has a 54 percent approval rating in a new CNN poll, nearly matching the 53 percent of the vote he got last November. What's changed...

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05/05/12 Jan Brewer's Abortion Grenade Source: The Daily Beast Terry Greene Sterling is writer-in-residence at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

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