The Daily Beast’s founding editor Tina Brown who just lured Howard Kurtz away from the Washington Post confirmed that she has been seeking a collaboration with Newsweek.

From Fishbowl LA

She’s not tipping her hand one way or the other, but in a Q&A commemorating her site’s two-year anniversary, The Daily Beast founding editor Tina Brown did confirm the widespread rumors that her site was in talks with Newsweek for some kind of collaboration.

“Yes, there have been some interesting discussions going on, as we have with potential partners large and small all the time.”

Hmmm. Enough of a nugget to get people talking about her site. But not enough to suggest anything of consequence is actually happening between The Daily Beast and Newsweek. Smart.

The hiring of Kurtz shocked the D.C. media world since he had been at the Post for 29 years and he wasn’t the biggest fan of the move to online journalism.

Newsweek has been sitting idly by as its top writers have fled for greener pastures so a collaboration with The Daily Beast should fit right in with it’s new low overhead model.

Sid Harman who bought the magazine for $1 plus the assumption of liabilities that has bow been revealed to be $47 million is surely looking for ways to leverage his brand at the lowest cost possible but a collaboration does raise at least one question.  Will it be more Newsweek than Beast or vice-versa?

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