Tina Brown to Leave The Daily Beast and Publishing

By: Christine Haughney | New York Times

Tina Brown is leaving the world of publishing.

Ms. Brown announced Wednesday that she would step down as editor in chief of the Web site The Daily Beast and start her own conference company. The departure will end, for now, her career as one of the magazine industry’s best-known editors, one who received much acclaim for her stewardship of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, then had less success with Talk magazine and the merger of The Daily Beast and Newsweek.