Tina Brown leaving the Daily Beast

Tina Brown, the famed editor who launched the online Daily Beast and oversaw its ill-fated merger with Newsweek, is leaving the New York-based company to form her own media operation. Brown started the Beast -- which combined news reporting with cultural and political commentary from big name bloggers -- amid much buzz in 2008. Brown herself was the primary reason for all the interest in the publication: As the one-time editor of Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and Talk magazine, she had a demonstra...