Tina Brown

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Christina (Tina) Hambley Brown CBE (born November 21, 1953 in Maidenhead ) is a British - American magazine editor and journalist . In particular, her performance in redeveloping The New Yorker magazine has earned her industry-wide recognition.

Life

She is the daughter of film producer George H. Brown and Bettina Kohr Brown, the press agent of actor Laurence Olivier . She wrote plays during her studies at the University of Oxford . In 1973 she received the Sunday Times Drama Award for “Under the Bamboo Tree ”. In the same year she was recognized as a junior journalist when she wrote for the Sunday Times and for the satirical magazine Punch , among others .

In 1979, Tina Brown was appointed editor of Tatler magazine . Within a short period of time, she succeeded in quadrupling the circulation to 40,000 and in 1983 Tatler was voted magazine of the year in England.

SI Newhouse Junior brought her to Vanity Fair in 1983 as a consultant and made her editor in 1984. Once again she succeeded in multiplying the circulation many times over, this time from 200,000 to over 1 million.

In 1992, Tina Brown accepted the offer to run the New Yorker. The breaks in tradition that she prescribed met with strong criticism: for the first time in its seventy years of existence, the magazine had a table of contents and for the first time photographs were published in the editorial section instead of just drawings. However, it succeeded in bringing a quarter of a million new readers to the magazine, which was waning from a commercial point of view, without driving out the traditional readership base.

In 1998 she left the New Yorker to lead the talk project under the aegis of the Weinstein brothers. She herself took over the publication of Talk Magazine . The ambitious project was on the way to becoming economically viable when it was ruined by the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attack.

Since then, Tina Brown has worked as a columnist and host of talk shows . Until 2005 she hosted her own talk show on CNBC and wrote columns a. a. for the Washington Post . In the two years from 2005 to 2007 she researched and wrote the biography of Princess Diana of Wales , which Droemer Verlag launched on the German market in mid-June 2007.

In 2008 she founded the politics, opinion and entertainment website The Daily Beast . In November 2010 it was announced that The Daily Beast and Newsweek would merge. Tina Brown, who is already in charge of the editorial team of The Daily Beast , will be the editor-in-chief for both editorial offices .

In late 2017, Brown published recollections of her time as editor-in-chief of celebrity magazine Vanity Fair, entitled The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992 .

She lives in New York with her husband Sir Harold Evans and their children .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Media merger in the USA: The Old and the Beast . In: Spiegel Online , November 12, 2010, accessed March 24, 2018.
    Newsweek and The Daily Beast Combine. November 12, 2010, archived from the original on January 4, 2013 ; accessed on March 24, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ Tina Brown recalls flashy '80s days at' Vanity Fair '- and an eye-popping Trump moment . In: USA TODAY . ( usatoday.com [accessed April 9, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Tina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Christina Hambley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American journalist, author and newspaper editor
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Maidenhead