Supposedly, the official premiere of Rupert Murdoch’s iPad newspaper, The Daily — whose promising culture staff includes editor Sasha Frere-Jones and critic Heather Havrilesky — is less than a week away. But for media nerds who can’t wait another moment comes an interesting shred of info from Poynter‘s Damon Kiesow, who poked around in its website‘s source code for a while and found what looks like an in-house ad that pictures two possible covers, featuring obvious attention-getters Oprah and Brett Favre. Other (not particularly surprising) details: The Daily will be equipped with a full range of social media sharing options, an embedded video player, and a “Story Carousel” that will give readers the ability to virtually page through the publication. [via Fishbowl NY]
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[...] but Apple’s VP of Internet Services, Eddy Cue, will be. From what little we’ve already seen, The Daily‘s content doesn’t look to be much different that what we’d see on the [...]
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