Daily Beast Hopes to Revitalize Site With New Contributors Like Samantha Bee, Kara Swisher, Dick Costolo (EXCLUSIVE)
If the media industry is burning, Joanna Coles and Ben Sherwood aren’t afraid to play close to the flames.Daily Beast to Be Led by Ex-Disney ABC TV Chief Ben Sherwood, Former Hearst Content Boss Joanna Coles in Deal With IAC Each member of this duo left traditional media giants at the top of the game. Sherwood had parlayed a stint as president of ABC News during which “Good Morning America” outmuscled “Today” into a run as the head of all of Disney’s entertainment-focused TV operations. Coles led both Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan before becoming chief content officer at Hearst Magazines and,...
Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee Dive Into the Wildest Headlines in The Daily Beast Podcast
The Daily Beast Podcast just dropped its first episode! Click here to be among the first to listen.Each Thursday, the Daily Beast’s Chief Creative and Content Officer Joanna Coles and late-night legend Samantha Bee will be joined by a who’s-who of celebrities and buzzy politicians to dish on the week’s biggest headlines. In today’s debut episode, brought to you by Five9, the two are joined by Kara Swisher–journalist, co-founder of Recode, and host of On With Kara Swisher.Ready to fall in love with your next podcast obsession? Catch the first episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and all major podcast players. If you like what you hear, make sure to leave a review!There’s even more ways to follow your soon-to-be new favorite; sign up here to get episode alerts emailed to you every week so you can be among the first to listen to new drops.Read more at The Daily Beast.
Diddy’s Legal Team Claims Media Including The Daily Beast Is ‘Assassinating’ His ‘Character’
Sean “Diddy” Combs has applied for a gag order restricting his alleged victims and their lawyers from speaking to the media, citing outrage at multiple stories in the U.S. media, including a story from The Daily Beast in which a victim’s lawyer said she believed Diddy spiked baby oil with date rape drugs to incapacitate a woman, Ashley Parham, who claims she was raped by Combs. Combs’ legal team wrote to judge Arun Subramanian saying that Combs’ right to a fair trial was being compromised, and that “prospective witnesses and their lawyers have made numerous inflammatory extrajudicial statements aimed at assassinating Mr. Combs’s character in the press.” The letter cites several examples of what it says are examples of unfair media coverage, including coverage on NBC, CBS and ABC. It goes on to state: “Some have even peddled in outlandish conspiracy theories. See, e.g., Tom Sykes, ‘Diddy Spiked Baby Oil With Date Rape Drug: Accuser‘s Lawyer,’ Daily Beast… (accuser‘s lawyer claiming that, based on her ’research,' ‘baby oil could be used as ‘a conduit’ for date rape drugs such as GHB or Rohypnol)."
Daily Beast Editor Accuses Trump of ‘Microdosing’ Drugs Like ‘His Friend’ Elon Musk: ‘It’s Astonishing Behavior’
The Daily Beast chief content officer and creative officer Joanna Coles suggested “microdosing” could be behind some of former President Donald Trump’s recent “drunken behavior.”. Coles joined Morning Joe on Wednesday and questioned Trump’s mental acuity following his fiery appearance at the Economic Club of Chicago...
WATCH: John Oliver Joins Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee on The Daily Beast Podcast
On this week’s edition of The Daily Beast Podcast, hosts Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee are joined by a brutally funny “Beast of the Week”—John Oliver, the Emmy-winning comedian known for his biting satire and meticulous research as the host of late-night talk show Last Week Tonight. Oliver bonds with Coles over their journeys towards American citizenship and recalls how he and Bee spent much of their time as correspondents on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show trying not to get arrested.Later on, Coles and Bee dive behind the scenes of a Daily Beast exclusive, speaking with journalist Michael Isikoff about his reporting that Donald Trump aide Chris LaCivita has made over $22 million—in just two years— by slicing a lucrative cut from the Trump campaign’s media spending.It’s not uncommon for political strategists to reap “astronomical” paydays for their work, Isikoff explains, but in LaCivita’s case, campaign finance reporting revealed money “pouring in at some really high, high levels that we haven’t seen before.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
Jon Lovett Dishes on the Benefits of Being Booted First Off ‘Survivor’ on The Daily Beast Podcast
It turns out that being the first person to be kicked off Survivor comes with some surprising silver linings.Jon Lovett, the Pod Save America co-host and former Obama speechwriter, spoke about his early departure from the show on this week’s episode of The Daily Beast Podcast.Lovett and his Crooked Media co-founder Jon Favreau joined hosts Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee to break down the vice presidential debate and give their verdict on the race to the election.But Lovett also shared some insights into his own experience with trying to win over some seriously unimpressed voters.The surprisingly congenial showdown between JD...
Bezos Primes WaPo Civil War as KHive Meets BeyHive
Welcome to October Surprise, the Daily Beast’s daily countdown to the biggest election of our lifetime. It’s only 11 days until Election Day and here’s what’s happening in the race to the White House between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Less than two weeks before Election Day, Donald Trump continues to project confidence that he’ll beat Kamala Harris. Though polling averages have the two candidates tied in the key battlegrounds, there are signals that Republicans are seizing on as evidence he could pull off a return to the White House despite many believing he was in the wilderness for much of the last four years. Here are seven. Polling errors, for one. Trump and Harris are virtually tied in every battleground state—which could benefit the GOP presidential candidate. Polls in 2016 and 2020 underestimated Trump’s support. He’s a much heavier favorite in online betting markets like Polymarket, thanks to millions of dollars—reportedly, by a single individual—that have boosted his standing.
Truth Social backers accused of blowing company cash on hooker and hangover cures: reports
Former President Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social was backed by a Wall Street firm whose partners are accused of blowing millions of company cash on private jets, hangover cures and a prostitute, according to court records and reports. Partners at EF Hutton, a company that specializes in risky start-ups such as Truth Social, were the subject of dueling lawsuits and a securities fraud investigation revealed Thursday by the Wall Street Journal and Daily Beast. New York civil court records show the firm sued former CEO Joseph Rallo in September on accusations he spent millions of...