The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast is a news website published by Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. About one-third of its content is original, while the rest is aggregated links to articles written by other news outlets.[1] The Daily Beast was launched October 6, 2008, and is owned by IAC. Edward Felsenthal, a former Wall Street Journal editor, is the site\'s executive editor. The general manager of The Daily Beast is Caroline Marks.

The name of the site is derived from that of the fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh\'s novel Scoop.[2]

A unique feature of The Daily Beast is the Cheat Sheet, billed as "must reads from all over". Published daily, 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.