Tina Brown
Tina Brown
Tina Brown CBE, is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles, a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales. Born a British citizen, she took United States citizenship in 2005 after emigrating in 1984 to edit Vanity Fair. Having been editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine at only 25 years of age, she rose to prominence in the American media industry as the editor of Vanity Fair from 1984 to 1992 and of The New Yorker from...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth21 November 1953
CountryUnited States of America
The hazard of confessional books is how fast the world moves on while they're written.
'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs.
'The Daily Beast' and Howard Kurtz have parted company.
The little New Year's baby is going to have to share the spotlight.
TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred
I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print
In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train
I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment
I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean
I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting
Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in
I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions
In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.