Alicia Keys is officially a musical theatre composer!
01.11.2023 - 20:49 / variety.com
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Heather Dietrick, CEO of IAC‘s Daily Beast, is leaving the news and opinion website at the end of 2023, Variety has learned. Dietrick has been hired as chief media officer at Outside Interactive, whose 13 editorial brands include Outside Magazine, Backpacker, Ski, Climbing, Yoga Journal, Velo, Pinkbike and Triathlete. She will remain with the Daily Beast through the end of the year as IAC searches for her replacement.
Dietrick joined New York-based Daily Beast in May 2017 from Gizmodo Media Group (formerly Gawker Media). During her tenure at the IAC brand, the site launched its first subscription tier, offering unlimited access and ad-free subscriber newsletters; rolled out ecommerce business Scouted; and bowed the pop-culture vertical Obsessed. “It is with mixed emotions that I write to share that after six incredible years, I will be moving on from the Daily Beast to become Chief Media Officer at publisher Outside, Inc., where I will combine my passion for media with my love of engaging in the world of the outdoors,” Dietrick wrote in a memo Wednesday to Daily Beast staff about her departure, which was obtained by Variety.
(Read the full memo below.) IAC claims the Daily Beast currently reaches more than 1 million readers per day. Earlier in 2023, IAC chairman Barry Diller explored a deal that would have merged the Daily Beast with Ankler Media, a startup co-founded by Janice Min, a former top editor at the Hollywood Reporter and Us Weekly. However, by midyear, Diller had decided to abandon that deal, the New York Times reported.
Alicia Keys is officially a musical theatre composer!
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