Daily Beast is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture.
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14 Facts About Daily Beast
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In July 2021, Shachtman announced that he'd be moving from the Daily Beast to Rolling Stone and that he will be succeeded by Tracy Connor.
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Feature of The Daily Beast is the Cheat Sheet, billed as "must reads from all over".
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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".
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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".
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In March 2012, "Book Daily Beast" won a National Magazine Award for Website Department, which "honors a department, channel or microsite".
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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.
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The first book published by Daily Beast Books was John Avlon's Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America.
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Also in 2011, Daily Beast Books published Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee's memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers.
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Criticism challenging the value of the piece continued, and The Daily Beast eventually removed the article altogether and issued an apology.
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Intercept 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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HuffPost and New York contributor Yashar Ali 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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