• Mediaweek, Wednesday, October 6, 2010 11:21 PM

Tina Brown's Daily Beast made a surprise hire The Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz -- which has revived speculation about a Beast-Newsweek merger. Brown and audio pioneer Sidney Harman, who just bought the struggling newsweekly from The Washington Post Co., are said to be in talks about a merger.

On her site, Brown said Kurtz's hire shows how the site has been able to attract talent from traditional media, as well as the blogosphere. Brown also boasted about the site's business-side success, with visitors now approaching 5 million uniques a month and growth in blue-chip advertisers, including Burberry, HBO and HP.

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