Tina Brown: Newsweek Daily Beast Will Be Profitable in 'Two to Three Years'

'No publication today can exist without reinventing itself'

At Monday night's New York Deadline Club Awards dinner, Tina Brown discussed Newsweek Daily Beast’s future with New York Post media reporter Keith Kelly—and said that it would take several years for the company to become profitable.

“Can Newsweek as an entity survive?” was Kelly’s first question. “No publication today can exist without reinventing itself,” Brown replied, but “Newsweek has a terrific role to play.” She added, “The great strength of this merged operation is that we are working on both [a weekly magazine and daily website].”

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