Berkshire Hathaway expanded its list of potential successors to CEO Warren Buffett to four candidates from three.
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Newsweek and The Daily Beast have finally agreed to merge. But with each business struggling, the new entity may be more like a marriage of two wounded media operations.
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US News is not for sale. Wealthy owner Mort Zuckerman wants to keep the magazine, he just does not want to print it, so the publication will go completely online next year. December will be the magazine’s last issue.
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Combining Newsweek and the Daily Beast wouldn’t have been as big of a debacle as New Coke, but it would have been awfully close. Beyond the clashing egos, it was never made clear how combining the organizations would allow them…
Howard Kurtz, arguably the most influential media reporter in the country, is leaving The Washington Post for Tina Brown’s Daily Beast website in the latest high-profile defection from old media titan to new media upstart. Kurt…