Daily Beast and Newsweek to merge

You probably heard that the venerable newsweekly and upstart news website have “wed,” as newly appointed Newsweek Daily Beast editor Tina Brown put it . “Working at the warp-speed of a 24/7 news operation, we now add the versatility of being able to develop ideas and investigations that require a different narrative pace suited to the medium of print,” Brown said. For Newsweek , the merger will raise the profile of the magazine’s bylines and quicken the pace of a great magaz…