{{Short description|Buffalo, New York biweekly newspaper}} {{distinguish|The Daily Beast}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2013}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Beast | image = | caption = | type = Alternative weekly | format = Tabloid | founded = {{Start date and age|2002|3|15}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/buffalobeast.com|title=BuffaloBeast.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools|website=WHOIS|date= |access-date=2016-10-02}}</ref> | ceased_publication = {{Plainlist| * 2009 (print) * 2013 (online) }} | price = | owners = Independent | publisher = Paul Fallon | editor = Ian Murphy | language = | circulation = | headquarters = Buffalo, New York, U.S. | ISSN = | website = }} '''''The Beast''''' was a Buffalo, New York alternative biweekly print newspaper published from 2002 until 2009 and then exclusively online until about 2013.
== History == ''The Beast'' was founded by Matt Taibbi, Kevin McElwee, and Paul Fallon in 2002. (Taibbi and McElwee had previously collaborated on ''The eXile''.)<ref name="AboutUs">{{cite news |url=http://www.buffalobeast.com/ |title=The BEAST: America's Best Fiend |work=The Beast |access-date=February 14, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206110626/http://www.buffalobeast.com/ |archive-date=February 6, 2011 |df=mdy-all }} ("About Us" section at bottom left)</ref> It was originally a free biweekly newspaper.
In 2007 the publication began to charge for issues as a national monthly publication that also offered international subscriptions.<ref name="AboutUs" /> In late 2009, ''The Beast'' stopped producing print editions but maintained an online presence with the tagline: "The World's Only Website."<ref name="AboutUs" /> The Beast's longest-serving editor was Allan Uthman.<ref name="AboutUs" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.buffalobeast.com/?p=2161 |title=Nice to meet me |date=June 1, 2010 |website=The Beast |access-date=February 19, 2011}}</ref>
An annual feature of ''The Beast'' was "The 50 Most Loathsome Americans" - a list of infamous celebrities, authors, athletes, pundits, politicians, and others selected for their dubious distinction, with reasons and examples given for each entry's inclusion.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=s_czAAAAIBAJ&pg=6570,3230121 |title=The celebrities we love to loathe |date= December 25, 2002 |work= The Spokesman-Review |access-date=February 19, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/magazine/03beck-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all |title= Being Glenn Beck |author= Leibovich, Mark|date= September 29, 2010 |work= The New York Times |access-date=February 19, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.macleans.ca/2011/01/20/for-fans-of-gratuitous-nastiness/ |title=For Fans of Gratuitous Nastiness |author= Weinman, Jaimie|date= January 20, 2011 |work= Maclean's |access-date=February 19, 2011}}</ref>
On February 23, 2011, editor Ian Murphy placed a prank telephone call to Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin during the 2011 Wisconsin budget protests.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}
''The Beast'' website closed in 2013.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20051103020242/http://www.buffalobeast.com/ Website] of the ''Beast'' *http://www.buffalonews.com/city/politics/article349786.ece *[http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1835667060881 Video] of Michael Moore stating that he has followed ''The Beast'' for seven years, is "impressed" by their work and hopes that their website gets many hits.
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