Tina Brown goes online with The Daily Beast
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Introducing thedailybeast.com, Brown, who is making her first foray on the Internet after a career in print journalism, described the startup website as "dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment."

"It's a speedy, smart edit of the Web from the merciless point of view of what interests the editors," she said of The Daily Beast, whose name was taken from that of the newspaper in the Evelyn Waugh novel "Scoop."

"We're hoping that if you like the sensibility The Daily Beast brings to choosing news and opinion then you'll trust us to be the lens you view it through," said the 55-year-old Brown.

The Daily Beast, which resembles other news aggregator websites such as The Huffington Post, is backed by Barry Diller's InterActive Corp.

Brown's last major publishing venture since leaving the New Yorker in 1998 was Talk magazine, which folded in 2001 after a three-year run.

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