Michelle Cottle Is The Most Recent Newsweek/Daily Beast Hire

Another day, another addition to Tina Brown’s Newsweek/Daily Beast team.  After luring style writer Robin Givhan and art critic Blake Gopnik away from The Washington Post yesterday, Brown has added New Republic senior editor Michelle Cottle to her “NewsBeast” operation.  Cottle spent over a decade at TNR and will serve as a Washington reporter at Newsweek/Daily Beast.  She will report to Daily Beast bureau chief Howard Kurtz.