Brightest Young Things, or BYT Media Inc., was an online magazine and event production and marketing agency based in Washington, D.C., and New York City.
Founded in 2009 by Svetlana Legetic,[1] a former Architecture Designer from Serbia, Brightest Young Things publishes original articles, interviews, guides and calendars pertaining to “food”, “style”, “music”, “art”, “theatre”, “film”, “gays”, and “weird” social events and trends in Washington, D.C., and, as of August 2012, New York City.
[3] Events in Washington, D.C., included Brightest Young Things collaborations with National Geographic, Virgin Mobile, and The Kennedy Center.
[4] Brightest Young Things began as Legetic's successful Myspace page in 2006, chronicling Washington, D.C., nightlife events.
42 on GQ Magazine's 50 most powerful people in Washington, D.C.[6] On March 25, 2013, managing editor Logan Donaldson was accused of plagiarizing a number of blurbs on BYT's “spring and summer music guide” from sources such as Rolling Stone, Telegraph, and Wikipedia.