Tina Brown's ONA Keynote: Loses Page of Speech, Not Impulse to Keep Splashy Launch Under Wraps

New York media maven Tina Brown gave this morning’s keynote address at the Online News Association’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., weighing in on some of the big-picture issues that have been braining traditional print news agencies. However, she remained quiet about her own much-speculated-upon online project, The Daily Beast, launching October 1. When a slightly frustrated audience began asking questions about her latest endeavor, the editor-in-chief was unwilling to explicate: “I’m not going to tell you our business model,” she said.