37 Facts About Tina Brown

Tina Brown is the former editor in chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, and the founding editor in chief of The Daily Beast.

From 1998 to 2002, Brown was chairman of Talk Media, which included Talk Magazine and Talk Miramax Books.

Tina Brown is author of The Diana Chronicles, The Vanity Fair Diaries and The Palace Papers.

Tina Brown was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, and grew up in the village of Little Marlow, in Buckinghamshire.

Tina Brown's mother, Bettina Kohr, who married George Brown in 1948, was an executive assistant to Laurence Olivier on his first two Shakespeare films.

Tina Brown was considered "an extremely subversive influence" as a child, resulting in her expulsion from three boarding schools.

Tina Brown entered the University of Oxford at the age of 17.

Tina Brown studied at St Anne's College, and graduated with a BA in English Literature.

In 1974, Tina Brown was given freelance assignments by Ian Jack, the paper's features editor.

In 1979, Tina Brown was invited to edit Tatler by its new owner, the Australian real estate millionaire Gary Bogard.

Tatler featured writers from Tina Brown's circle, including Julian Barnes, Dennis Potter, Auberon Waugh, Brian Sewell, Martin Amis, Georgina Howell, and Nicholas Coleridge.

Tina Brown transformed the social coverage with pictures by her young discovery Dafydd Jones.

Tina Brown wrote content for every issue, contributing sharp surveys of the upper classes.

Tina Brown traveled through Scotland for a feature titled "North of the Border with the Thane of Cawdor" and wrote short satirical profiles of eligible London bachelors under the pen name Rosie Boot.

Tina Brown joined NBC's Tom Brokaw in running commentary for The Today Show on the royal wedding on July 29,1981.

Tina Brown hosted several episodes of the long-running television series Film82 for BBC1 as a guest presenter.

Tina Brown served as a contributing editor for a brief time, and was named editor in chief on January 1,1984.

Dunne told Tina Brown he was going to California for the trial of his daughter's murderer.

Tina Brown suggested he keep a diary as solace, and his resulting report proved the launch of Dunne's long-running magazine career.

Tina Brown persuaded novelist William Styron to write about his depression under the title Darkness Visible, which subsequently became a best-selling nonfiction book.

Harry Benson's cover shoot of Ronald and Nancy Reagan dancing in the White House; Helmut Newton's portrait of accused murderer Claus von Bulow in his leathers with his mistress Andrea Reynolds with reporting by Dominick Dunne, and Tina Brown's own cover story on Diana, Princess of Wales in October 1985 titled "The Mouse That Roared".

In 1988, Tina Brown was named Magazine Editor of the Year by Advertising Age magazine.

In October 1990, two months after the first Gulf War started, Tina Brown nixed a picture of the blond Marla Maples for the cover and replaced it with a photograph of Cher.

In 1992, Tina Brown accepted the company's invitation to become editor of The New Yorker, the fourth editor in its 73-year history, following Harold Ross, William Shawn, and Robert Gottlieb.

George Trow, who had been with the magazine for almost three decades, accused Tina Brown of "kissing the ass of celebrity" in his resignation letter.

Tina Brown had the support of New Yorker stalwarts John Updike, Roger Angell, Brendan Gill, Lillian Ross, Calvin Tomkins, Janet Malcolm, Harold Brodkey and Philip Hamburger, as well as newer staffers Adam Gopnik and Nancy Franklin.

Tina Brown introduced the annual fiction issue and the holiday cartoon issue.

Tina Brown collaborated with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates to devote an issue to the theme Black in America.

Tina Brown broke the magazine's longstanding reluctance to treat photography seriously in 1992, when she invited Richard Avedon to be its first staff photographer.

Tina Brown approved controversial covers, including Edward Sorel's October 1992 image of a punk-rock passenger sprawled in the back seat of an elegant horse-drawn carriage, which may have been Brown's self-mocking riposte to fears that she would downgrade the magazine.

Tina Brown appointed Spiegelman's wife Francoise Mouly as the magazine's art editor.

Tina Brown did what we would have done if we invented The New Yorker from scratch.

In 1998, Tina Brown resigned from The New Yorker following an invitation from Harvey and Bob Weinstein of Miramax Films to chair Talk Media.

Tina Brown worked with the book division's editor in chief Jonathan Burnham and acquiring editor Susan Mercandetti.

In 2017, Tina Brown published The Vanity Fair Diaries, culled from her eight and a half years as editor in chief of Vanity Fair.

On October 6,2008, Tina Brown teamed up with Barry Diller to launch The Daily Beast, an online news site.

Tina Brown's resignation caused speculation in the media in regard to the future of the website.