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''The Daily Beast'' is an American news
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focused on politics, media, and pop culture. It was founded in 2008. It has been characterized as a "high-end
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" by Noah Shachtman, the site's editor-in-chief from 2018 to 2021. In a 2015 interview, former
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John Avlon John Phillips Avlon (born January 19, 1973) is an American journalist and political commentator. He is a Senior Political Analyst and anchor at CNN and was the editor-in-chief and managing director of ''The Daily Beast'' from 2013 to 2018. Avlon ...
described the ''Beast''s editorial approach: "We seek out scoops, scandals, and stories about secret worlds; we love confronting bullies, bigots, and hypocrites." In 2018, Avlon described the ''Beast''s "strike zone" as "politics, pop culture, and power".


History

''The Daily Beast'' began publishing on October 6, 2008. Its founding editor was Tina Brown, a former editor of ''Vanity Fair'' and ''
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'' as well as the short-lived ''Talk'' magazine. The name of the site was taken from a fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh's novel ''Scoop''. In 2010, ''The Daily Beast'' merged with the magazine ''
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'' creating a combined company, The Newsweek Daily Beast Company. The merger ended in 2013, when ''Daily Beast'' owner IAC sold ''Newsweek'' to
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, owner of the ''
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''. Brown stepped down as editor in September 2013.
John Avlon John Phillips Avlon (born January 19, 1973) is an American journalist and political commentator. He is a Senior Political Analyst and anchor at CNN and was the editor-in-chief and managing director of ''The Daily Beast'' from 2013 to 2018. Avlon ...
, an American journalist and political commentator as well as a CNN contributor, was the site's editor-in-chief and managing director from 2013 to 2018. In September 2014, ''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 May 2018 Avlon departed from the ''Beast'' to become full-time Senior Political Analyst and anchor at CNN. Avlon was succeeded by executive editor Noah Shachtman. In March 2017 former chief strategy and product officer Mike Dyer left for
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. In May 2017, Heather Dietrick was appointed president and publisher. In July 2021, Shachtman announced that he'd be moving from the Beast to
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and that he will be succeeded by Tracy Connor.


Editorial stance

In an April 2018 interview, Avlon described the publication's political stance as "non-partisan but not neutral": "what that means is we're going to hit both sides where appropriate, but we're not going for mythic moral equivalence on every issue." In April 2017, Avlon discussed the organization's approach on the
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's podcast saying, "We're not going to toe any partisan line." In December 2017, NPR reported that ''The Daily Beast''s editor-in-chief John Avlon had begun pairing reporters from both the right and left sides of the political spectrum to cover
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stories. Specifically, reporters Asawin Suebsaeng (formerly of '' Mother Jones'') and Lachlan Markay (formerly of
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) were tasked with covering the
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. ''
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'' media critic Erik Wemple stated in 2018 that "Pound for pound, 'The Daily Beast''is an impressive operation. As I see it, they do a few things well: They bang the phones, they don't always follow the same story everyone else is doing, and they are fast." Later in 2018, editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman characterized ''The Daily Beast'' as a "high-end
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" that embraces gonzo journalism. According to Shachtman, ''The Daily Beast'''s social media policy for journalists consists (as of 2018) of three main rules: "you're reporters, not cheerleaders" so don't be an open partisan; avoid hate speech and posts that could offend a group; and "don't get your fellow reporters in trouble".


Format

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. It is found at www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet. After the launch, the site introduced additional sections, including a video ''Cheat Sheet'' and ''Book Beast''. The site frequently creates encyclopedic landing pages on topical subjects such as President Obama's inauguration, the Bernard Madoff
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, and the Iran uprising. In 2014, ''The Daily Beast'' became the majority on mobile and released an iOS app, which Nieman Lab described as "the dawn of the quantified news reader". The illustrational style used at the top of every article has been described as, "jaunty collage and pop-art illustrations".


Contributors

Contributors to the publication include notable writers and political activists such as: * Ayaan Hirsi Ali * Samantha Leigh Allen * Martin Amis *
John Avlon John Phillips Avlon (born January 19, 1973) is an American journalist and political commentator. He is a Senior Political Analyst and anchor at CNN and was the editor-in-chief and managing director of ''The Daily Beast'' from 2013 to 2018. Avlon ...
* Mike Barnicle * Peter Beinart *
Jamelle Bouie Jamelle Antoine Bouie (born April 12, 1987) is an American columnist for ''The New York Times''. He was formerly chief political correspondent for ''Slate''. David Uberti, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review in 2019, called Bouie "one of ...
* Jimmy Breslin * Tina Brown * Christopher Buckley * Gordon Chang *
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*
Eleanor Clift Eleanor Irene Clift (''née'' Roeloffs; born July 7, 1940) is an American political journalist, television pundit, and author. She is a contributor to MSNBC and blogger for '' The Daily Beast''. She is best known as a regular panelist on '' The ...
* Ana Marie Cox * Christopher Dickey * Diane Dimond * Kim Dozier * Joshua Dubois * Mark Ebner * Jon Favreau * David Frum *
Leslie H. Gelb Leslie Howard "Les" Gelb (March 4, 1937 – August 31, 2019) was an American academic, correspondent and columnist for ''The New York Times'' who served as a senior Defense and State Department official and later the President Emeritus of the Coun ...
* Daniel Genis *
Michelle Goldberg Michelle Goldberg (born 1975)"Michelle Goldberg". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2016. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, January 28, 2017. is an American journalist and author, and an op-ed columnist for '' The New York Ti ...
* Daniel Goldman * Daniel Gross * Lloyd Grove *
Shane Harris Shane Harris is an American journalist and author. He is a senior national security writer at the ''Washington Post''. He specializes in coverage of America's intelligence agencies. He is author of the books '' The Watchers: The Rise of Americ ...
* Molly Jong-Fast * Jackie Kucinich *
Eli Lake Eli Jon Lake is an American journalist and the former senior national security correspondent for ''The Daily Beast'' and ''Newsweek''. Currently, he is a columnist for the Bloomberg View. He has also contributed to CNN, Fox, CSPAN, Charlie R ...
* Bernard Henri Levy *
Matt K. Lewis Matt K. Lewis is an American conservative political writer, blogger, podcaster, and columnist for ''The Daily Beast'', formerly with ''The Daily Caller'', and has written for ''The Week''.
* Ira Madison III *
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Mark McKinnon Mark David McKinnon (born May 5, 1955) is an American political advisor, reform advocate, media columnist, and television producer. He was the chief media advisor to five successful presidential primary and general election campaigns, and is a co ...
* Michael Moynihan * Maajid Nawaz * Olivia Nuzzi *
Dean Obeidallah Dean Obeidallah (born December 17, 1969) is an American lawyer, comedian, and journalist. He is the host of SiriusXM Progress' ''The Dean Obeidallah Show'' and a frequent contributor to CNN, The Daily Beast, and MSNBC. Obeidallah was born i ...
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P. J. O'Rourke Patrick Jake O'Rourke (November 14, 1947 – February 15, 2022) was an American libertarian political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke was the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute and a regular correspondent for ''T ...
* Kirsten Powers * Joy-Ann Reid * Josh Rogin * Noah Shachtman *
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* Harry Siegel * Will Sommer *
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* Goldie Taylor * Michael Tomasky * Touré * Michael Weiss * Rick Wilson In May 2017, Pulitzer Prize–winning national security reporter
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left ''
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'' and joined ''The Daily Beast''. In June 2017, ''
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'' senior political editor Sam Stein announced he was joining ''The Daily Beast'' in the same capacity.


Reach

In early June 2014, Capital New York re-published a memo by outgoing CEO Rhona Murphy, stating that ''The Daily Beast''s average unique monthly visitors increased from 13.5 million in 2013 to more than 17 million in 2014. By September 2014, the website reached a new record of 21 million unique visitors; it was 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 that ''The Daily Beast'' is "one of the fastest-growing news and information sites year-over-year in the 'General News' category". During Avlon's leadership from 2013 to 2018, ''The Daily Beast'' doubled its traffic to 1.1 million readers a day and won over 17 awards for journalistic excellence.


Awards

''The Daily Beast'' won a Webby Award for "Best News Site" in 2012 and 2013. Also in 2012 John Avlon won National Society of Newspaper Columnists' award for best online column in 2012 for ''The Daily Beast''. In March 2012, "Book Beast" won a National Magazine Award for Website Department, which "honors a department, channel or microsite". Anna Nemstova received the Courage in Journalism Award in 2015 from the
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. Also that year, Michael Daly won with the National Society of Newspaper Columnists award in the category of Online, Blog, Multimedia – Over 100,000 Unique Visitors. In 2016, the Los Angeles Press Club nominated several of The Beast's writers including M. L. Nestel for Arts/Entertainment Investigative,
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and Ben Collins for best Celebrity Investigative, Malcolm Jones for best Obituary, Lizzie Crocker for Humor and Tim Teeman for Industry/ArtsHard News. Also nominated for best in field were Kevin Fallon for Industry/Arts Soft News and Melissa Leon for Industry/Arts Soft News. The Association of LGBTQ Journalists or NLGJA nominated both Tim Teeman 2016 Journalist of the Year and Heather Boerner Excellence in HIV/AIDS Coverage. In 2017, NLGJA awarded Jay Michaelson for his coverage of GOP anti-LGBT legislation and Tim Teeman for reporting on ALS. In 2017, the website won three New York Press Club Journalism Awards in the internet publishing categories of Entertainment News, Crime Reporting and Travel Reporting. In December, the Los Angeles Press Club's National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards announced the platform had won 4 awards for 2017 reporting including investigative articles about the Nate Parker rape case, comic Bob Smith's struggle with ALS, and remembering Bill Paxton. In 2018, the trade magazine ''
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'' awarded the ''Beast''s Cheat Sheet for best email newsletter.


Beast Books

In September 2009, ''The Daily Beast'' launched a publishing initiative entitled "Beast Books" that will produce books by ''Beast'' writers on an accelerated publishing schedule. The first book published by Beast Books was
John Avlon John Phillips Avlon (born January 19, 1973) is an American journalist and political commentator. He is a Senior Political Analyst and anchor at CNN and was the editor-in-chief and managing director of ''The Daily Beast'' from 2013 to 2018. Avlon ...
's ''Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America''. In January 2011, they published
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's ''The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama''. Also in 2011, Beast Books published Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee's memoir, ''Mighty Be Our Powers''.


Controversies


Plagiarism

In February 2010,
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of '' Slate'' magazine reported that the chief investigative reporter for ''The Daily Beast'',
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, had plagiarised five sentences from an article published by the ''
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, Bumble and Grindr, and documented his experiences in the
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. While not specifically naming names, Hines provided enough detail in the article to identify individual athletes, leading to widespread criticism that this information could be used against closeted gay athletes, especially those living in repressive countries. Facing intense backlash online, ''The Daily Beast'' edited the piece to remove details that could allow athletes to be identified, and editor in chief
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added a lengthy editor's note. Criticism challenging the value of the piece continued, and ''The Daily Beast'' eventually removed the article altogether and issued an apology. In March 2017, Hines issued a formal apology for his actions, and it was announced by the website's editor Hines would be returning to ''The Daily Beast'' "following a lengthy period of intense reflection". Andrew M. Seaman, ethics committee chair for the
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, called the article "journalistic trash, unethical and dangerous". The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association stated "The reporting was unethical, extremely careless of individual privacy and potentially dangerous to the athletes". Vince Gonzales, professor of professional practice at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism wrote "I think this borders on journalistic malpractice". The president of GLAAD, Sarah Kate Ellis, wrote "How this reporter thought it was OK—or that somehow it was in the public's interest—to write about his deceitful encounters with these men reflects a complete lack of judgment and disregard for basic decency, not to mention the ethics of journalism".


Doxing accusation

In June 2019, ''The Daily Beast'' reporter Kevin Poulsen was accused of doxing Shawn Brooks, a 34-year-old
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living in
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, when Poulsen revealed his identity for being the alleged creator and disseminator of a widely shared fake video, which showed American politician Nancy Pelosi speaking in a slurred manner. The fake video had been shared over 60,000 times on
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and had more than 4 million views, and also spread to
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and
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. In response, Brooks denied creating the fake video, despite admitting to being one of the administrators of the group that originally posted the video, Politics WatchDog, and blamed a "female admin" of the group. Brooks also said that he would sue ''The Daily Beast'' and Poulsen for publishing "inaccurate trash", and created a GoFundMe page to raise money for
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, with a goal of raising $10,000. As of the morning of June 3, 2019, he had raised more than $4,400.


Reactions

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'' co-founder Glenn Greenwald criticized ''The Daily Beast'' for revealing Brooks' identity, saying on Twitter that it was "repellent to unleash the resources of a major news outlet on an obscure, anonymous, powerless, quasi-unemployed citizen for the crime of trivially mocking the most powerful political leaders". ''
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'' and '' New York'' contributor
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also criticized ''The Daily Beast'' for revealing Brooks' identity, saying it "sets a really bad precedent when a private citizen has their identity publicly revealed simply because they made a video of a politician appearing to be drunk". ''
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Ben Shapiro said on Laura Ingraham's '' The Ingraham Angle'' on June 3 that "My impression was that if you are posting anonymously on Facebook, then it's not really within Facebook's purview to start handing that information to media outlets, but I guess that isn't true". Other journalists who criticized ''The Daily Beast'' include freelance journalist and former '' The Young Turks'' journalist Michael Tracey, who said on Twitter that "No one on the planet ever thought "disinformation is the purview of Russia alone" other than self-aggrandizing, sleazy, click-chasing Daily Beast journalists", and media editor for ''
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'' Jon Levine, who called the article a "hit job over a joke video that happened to go viral". When ''The Daily Beast'' editor Noah Shachtman was asked about these criticisms by CNN media reporter
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on his '' Reliable Sources'' show on June 2, 2019, Shachtman defended the article, noting that the fake video had reached "the highest levels of power, with Rudy Giuliani himself tweeting it out" and therefore, according to Shachtman, it was worth identifying the creator of the fake video. Shachtman said Poulsen spoke with Brooks in an on-the-record interview for an hour.


Description of Israel Defense Forces

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'', which described the
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as "genocidal"; after human rights lawyers and members of the Jewish community objected, ''The Daily Beast'' removed the word and stated that it would review its editorial policy on the use of the term "genocide".


''Griffith v. The Daily Beast et al'' (2020)

In January 2019, ''The Daily Beast'' staff writer Maxwell Tani published an article entitled "Gawker 2.0 Implodes as Its Only Reporters Quit," alleging the site's "editorial director Carson Griffith's offensive remarks about everything from race to penis size" caused the implosion. On February 27, 2020, journalist Carson Griffith announced she was suing ''The Daily Beast'', Tani and Noah Shachtman over a "defamatory and untruthful" article that contains allegations of offensive workplace comments from her former co-workers and former ''
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'' writers Maya Kosoff and Anna Breslaw. On March 24, 2021, a New York Supreme Court judge denied a motion by ''The Daily Beast'', Shachtman and Tani to dismiss Griffith's defamation lawsuit. "This Court finds that Plaintiff has sufficiently pled a cause of action for defamation," Justice Phillip Hom wrote in the ruling. On August 9, 2022, a New York Supreme Court judge denied another motion by ''The Daily Beast,'' Shachtman and Tani pursuant of New York's anti- SLAPP amendment. The lawsuit will now advance towards discovery.


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