Daily Beast
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Type of site
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News |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | IAC |
| Created by | Tina Brown |
| Editor | John Avlon |
| Website | thedailybeast |
| Alexa rank |
 1,198 (Global January 2017) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | None |
| Launched | October 6, 2008 |
| Current status | Active |
The Daily Beast is an American left-leaning news reporting and opinion website. The website focuses on politics and pop culture. In a 2015 interview, editor in chief John Avlon described The Beast's editorial approach: "We seek out scoops, scandals and stories about secret worlds; we love confronting bullies, bigots and hypocrites".
The Daily Beast began publishing on October 6, 2008, The Beast's founding editor was Tina Brown, a former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker as well as the short-lived Talk Magazine. Brown stepped down as editor in September 2013.John Avlon, an American journalist and political commentator as well as a CNN contributor, is the site's editor in chief. Mike Dyer is chief strategy and product officer, and Sarah Chubb serves as senior adviser.
The name of the site was taken from a fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop.
On November 12, 2010, The Daily Beast and Newsweek announced a merger deal, creating a combined company, The Newsweek Daily Beast Company. On August 3, 2013, IAC, owner of The Daily Beast, sold Newsweek (without "The Daily Beast") to IBT Media, owner of the International Business Times. In September 2014, one year after Tina Brown's departure was announced, The Daily Beast reached a new record of 21 million unique visitors—a 60% year-over-year increase in readers, accompanied by a 300% increase in the overall size of its social media community. In 2015, Ken Doctor, a news analyst for Nieman Lab, reported on Capital New York that The Daily Beast is "one of the fastest-growing news and information sites year-over-year in the 'General News' category".
A feature of The Daily Beast is the "Cheat Sheet", billed as "must reads from all over". Published throughout the day, the Cheat Sheet offers a selection of articles from online news outlets on popular stories. The Cheat Sheet includes brief summaries of the article, and a link to read the full text of the article on the website of its provider.
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