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The Daily Beast is a website dedicated to news and commentary, culture and entertainment. Created by Tina Brown and IAC, The Daily Beast curates the web’s best content and offers fresh works from its own talented roster of contributors.

It includes products like The Cheat Sheet, a collection of the editors’ picks of the best in political, cultural, entertainment and general news from the web; The Big Fat Story, an interactive feature providing many angles on a single topic; The Buzz Board, where friends of the site provide their own recommendations of stories, blog posts and videos to watch from around the web; and Blogs and Stories, which highlights The Daily Beast’s original content.

The Daily Beast is managed by Brown, together with Edward Felsenthal, former deputy managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and Stephen Colvin, a former Executive Vice President of CNET/CBS Interactive.

• Launched in October 2008 in beta by IAC and Tina Brown, The Daily Beast is headquartered in New York, NY
• #19 on New York Magazine’s Reasons to Love New York in 2008
• 57% of visitors return to the site within 24 hours (Omniture SiteCatalyst, May 2009)
• Has over 50,000 newsletter subscribers