Daily Beast, Newsweek Merger Coming?

The Daily Beast’s surprising hire of The Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz has revived speculation about a Beast-Newsweek merger, and Daily Beast founder and editor Tina Brown took to her site to address the rumors and other questions in a Q&A.
 
In referring to “some interesting discussions going on,” Brown didn’t dismiss the speculation outright, which is likely to fan rather than quell the flames.
 
Brown and audio pioneer Sidney Harman, who just bought the struggling newsweekly from The Washington Post Co.,



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