Tina Brown Launches Web Site With Diller Backing

Tina Brown, the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and Talk, launched her first Web site this morning. The Daily Beast, which also counts a former Wall Street Journal editor among its execs, is funded by Barry Diller’s IAC. (FT)

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The site, which focuses on celebrities, new and culture, will contain both original pieces and summaries of stories on other Web sites. Edward Felsenthal, a former deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal has been working with Brown on the site, which counts celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, satirist Christopher Buckley and Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali among its contributors. The size of Diller’s investment in the site is unknown.

Sources: Financial Times, PaidContent, Gawker