The Daily Beast - The Daily Beast is an American news reporting and opinion website founded and published by Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker as well as the short-lived Talk Magazine. About one-third of its content is original, while the rest is aggregated links to articles written by other news outlets. The Daily Beast was launched on October 6, 2008, and is owned by IAC. Edward Felsenthal, a former Wall Street Journal editor, is the site's executive editor, and Stephen Colvin is its president. On November 12, 2010, The Daily Beast and Newsweek announced a merger deal, creating the combined company "The Daily Beast Newsweek Publishing.