If I had to choose one magazine to take to a desert island, it would probably not be one of the celebrated giants published in New York - Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, or Harpers -but the Atlantic. Its refreshingly outward looking focus reflects the fact that its origins ...

When Tina Brown, former Editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, launched the Daily Beast in October 2008 she said that it is not an "aggregator" - meaning it will not merely collect stories a la Yahoo News, but will "sift, sort and curate" the web every day, combining some original stuff with links to other sites' content ...