"I have to say I think I'd be handicapped if I was linked to a magazine," she said at one point. And later, she elaborated, "In my month's experience editing The Daily Beast, I am so excited by it, so enthralled by it, so kind of invigorated by it that it does make me realize the great opportunities of this digital world. And I have to say I would hate to have to be in the magazine world right now. It's a really tough time to be a magazine editor, trying to compete, in a sense with that pace and that exhilaration and the multimedia nature [of the web]."

-Tina Brown, exercising the old ghosts of her Talk magazine during the EconWomen's conference