Tina Brown

This article is about the British journalist. For the American Olympic rower, see Tina Brown (rower). For the British athlete, see Tina Brown (runner).

Tina Brown
CBE
Brown in 2012
Born
Christina Hambley Brown

(1953-11-21) 21 November 1953 (age 71)
Maidenhead, England
Alma materSt Anne's College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host, author
Spouse
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(m. 1981; died 2020)​
Children2

Christina Hambley Brown, Lady Evans[1] CBE (born 21 November 1953), is an English journalist, magazine editor, columnist, broadcaster, and author. She is the former editor in chief of Tatler (1979 to 1982), Vanity Fair (1984 to 1992), The New Yorker (1992 to 1998), and the founding editor in chief of The Daily Beast (2008 to 2013). From 1998 to 2002, Brown was chairman of Talk Media, which included Talk Magazine and Talk Miramax Books. In 2010, she founded Women in the World, a live journalism platform to elevate the voices of women globally, with summits held through 2019. Brown is author of The Diana Chronicles (2007), The Vanity Fair Diaries (2017) and The Palace Papers (2022).[2][3][4]

As a magazine editor, she has received four George Polk Awards, five Overseas Press Club awards, and ten National Magazine Awards,[5] and in 2007 was inducted into the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame.[citation needed] In 2021, she was honored as a Library Lion by the New York Public Library.[6] In 2022, Women in Journalism, the UK's leading networking and training organization for journalists, honored her with their Lifetime Achievement Award.[7]

Born in England, Brown emigrated in 1984 and became a U.S. citizen in 2005. She now holds dual British-American citizenship. In 2000, she was appointed a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for her services to journalism overseas,[8] by Queen Elizabeth II. In September 2022, she was a CBS commentator for the funeral of the Queen.

In 2023, in partnership with Reuters and Durham University, Brown hosted Truth Tellers, the inaugural Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism at the Royal Institute of British Architects, in honor of her late husband Sir Harold Evans, the former editor of The Sunday Times. The event featured over 60 investigative journalists and editors from the U.K, the U.S, Ukraine, Mexico, Russia, Nigeria, South Africa, Canada, Iran, Bulgaria and France. Among the featured guests were Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in conversation with Emily Maitlis about What Makes a Great Investigative Journalist, Activist Bill Browder, Bellingcat investigator Christo Grozev, Head of Investigations and Chairwoman of the Board for the Anti-Corruption Foundation (founded by Alexei Navalny) Maria Pevchikh and Russian journalist and writer Mikhail Zygar on the weaponization of media in Russia, and the creator and writer of HBO show Succession Jesse Armstrong. The Truth Tellers summit will now take place annually.

  1. ^ "Tina Brown CBE (alternatively Lady Evans)". @ 2016, thesteepletimes.com. All rights reserved. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  2. ^ "How Tina Brown Remixed the Magazine". The New Yorker. 13 November 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  3. ^ Mcdonell, Terry (17 November 2017). "Queen of the Glossies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  4. ^ "The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992 by Tina Brown". www.publishersweekly.com. 14 November 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  5. ^ "Author spotlight". Random House. 2007. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
  6. ^ The Editors (9 November 2021). "Inside the 2021 Library Lions Gala". Town & Country. Town and Country magazine. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  7. ^ McMillan, Kate (26 September 2022). "Tina Brown named winner of the inaugural Women in Journalism Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by No7". Women In Journalism. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Queen's Birthday Honours List". The Guardian. 17 June 2000. Retrieved 30 August 2010.