Dr. Sidney Harman, the founder and chairman emeritus of audio and electronics company Harman International who bought Newsweek magazine and then sold it to IAC (NSDQ: IACI) in order to merge it with The Daily Beast, has died at 92, according to an announcement on TDB.

Update: Well, it looks as if the effort to keep Newsweek.com alive has worked. In an early afternoon Tweet, Tina Brown says, “Woah! Newsweek.com’s superb content will live on under its own banner & in URLs on the new site. Not shutting down, combining.” Original post: Once the merger between…

Updated: Newsweek and The Daily Beast will merge after all in a deal forged despite a misunderstanding that stopped earlier negotiations. The news that Daily Beast founding editor Tina Brown will tackle the odd hybrid as her next big thing, fittingly first reported by Nick Summers, a former Newsweek reporter…

After nearly 30 years at the Washington Post, press critic Howard Kurtz is joining The Daily Beast, editor Tina Brown announced. Kurtz will serve as the IAC-owned publication’s Washington Bureau Chief. He will lead the online news site’s reporting in the capital and on the campaign trail. Although he’s giving…

By now, anyone who’s been paying attention knows that Tina Brown’s online project with Barry Diller’s backing is called The Daily Beast after the paper in Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop. Brown’s high-profile move to the web from glossy print is scheduled to go live Monday at 7 a.m. eastern, in the…

If you have to look it up, you’re probably mystified about the name of Tina Brown’s newest venture: The Daily Beast. That would seem to be a problem—her last publishing title Talk said it all; then again, that was no guarantee of success. The homage to Evelyn Waugh and his…