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  Tina Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tina Brown, Lady Evans (born Christina Hambley Brown on November 21, 1953, in Maidenhead, England) is a British-born American magazine editor, columnist, and talk-show host.
Her parents, George Hambley Brown and Bettina Iris Mary (Kohr) Brown were prominent figures in the British film industry.
Brown became editor of Tatler in June 1979 at the invitation of its new owner, the Australian millionaire Gary Bogard; in a short time she quadrupled its circulation to 40,000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tina_Brown   (1115 words)

  
 Tina Brown Summary
Brown's sharp, witty prose garnered her the Young Journalist of the Year Award given in 1978 by Punch, where she was for several years a columnist.
Although Brown won admiration for reviving flagging sales of once-healthy magazines, few believed she had the skills to succeed as The New Yorker editor, and many felt her previous triumphs were due to lack of discrimination among Tatler and Vanity Fair readers.
Tina Brown (born Christina Hambley Brown on November 21, 1953, in Maidenhead, England) is a British-born American magazine editor, columnist, and talk-show host.
www.bookrags.com /Tina_Brown   (2063 words)

  
 PEN American Center - Tina Brown
Brown's editorial reputation for revitalizing publications was established at the Tatler magazine in London where she was named editor-in-chief when she was 25 years old.
Brown became editor of The New Yorker magazine, where she raised the circulation and the magazine was honored with over 20 awards.
Tina is writing a book about the legacy of Diana, Princess of Wales, which will examine the effect she had on the monarchy, the public, and the press, to be published in 2007.
www.pen.org /page.php/prmID/1087   (210 words)

  
 Salon | Tina's Time
Brown is surely referring, at least in part, to the petrified mummies she has driven from the magazine's editorial staff.
Ken Auletta?) Depending on whom you ask, Brown is either her generation's most adroit zeitgeist surfer or the lead zombie in a highbrow remake of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." There's not a lot of middle ground.
It is perhaps the surest measure of Brown's enormous clout in the publishing world that even the most established writers are terrified -- absolutely terrified -- of offending her in even the slightest, most glancing way.
www.salon.com /june97/tina970625.html   (836 words)

  
 I Want Media - Media People: Tina Brown
Tina Brown is the host of "Topic A with Tina Brown," a quarterly roundtable discussion program featuring guests from the worlds of business, politics and entertainment, debuting tonight on CNBC at 9 p.m.
Tina Brown: The format of the show is bringing people together who I consider would have something to say to one another, to discuss aspects of our times and what's in the news in a way that simply creates a great conversation.
Brown: I miss being a journalist as such, being a journalist in the mix of the news.
www.iwantmedia.com /people/people27.html   (2414 words)

  
 Tina Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Brown manages to capture the ebb and flow of the fast life of those in the know, and to do so from a New York perspective, in a way that no one else seems able to these days.
Brown succeeds, mainly, by being on the mark and a few steps ahead on the sweep of cultural impressions so that the reader says, yes, I was just thinking that myself, when, in fact, the reader had not fully formed half the thought.
This has good and ill effects, but Brown is right on the mark in her intuition that we are all being changed, reconditioned, the see the world the way they present it.
www.terryreport.com /html/tina_brown.html   (1353 words)

  
 Telegraph | News
He interpreted her musings on Manhattan's "buzzocracy" as "a lament about the end of the Tina Brown era" which began with "sleigh rides from the helm of the Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker" and ended in "the ditch".
Following the closure of Talk two years ago, she's been trying to reinvent herself as a pundit and in the past month or so it has begun to look as though she might be succeeding.
The truth is that however hard Tina tries she can't seem to persuade the gatekeepers of media power that she is "hot", to use one of her own favourite yardsticks.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/07/nmed07.xml   (1351 words)

  
 DECISION MAKER TINA BROWN
But even Brown was surprised by the amount of publicity that greeted the launch of her new magazine, Talk, this month.
Brown is a celebrity in her own right and an experienced hand at being interviewed.
Brown had interviews in all the major newspapers, as well as TV's top-rated 20/20 news magazine.
www.felixsalmon.com /clips/tina.html   (724 words)

  
 Poetry Daily Feature: Tina Brown Celona - The Real Moon of Poetry and Other Poems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tina Brown Celona was born in 1974 to an American Foreign Service officer and his Vietnamese wife.
Tina Brown Celona's darkly lucid, lightly comic poems are unusually explicit in their attentiveness to the primacy of poetry as a natural force, akin to that of the tides or their correlative lunar cycle.
"Tina Celona's beautiful and odd poems are trying to find ways to feel when the traditional sources of feeling — nature, family, love, poems and their unadulterated language — are as remote and ossified as relics in a museum.
www.poems.com /realmcel.htm   (521 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Former 'Talk' editor Tina Brown to host CNBC show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
NEW YORK (AP) — Former magazine editor Tina Brown is taking a small step into the television talk-show world, agreeing to be host of a series of prime-time specials on CNBC starting in March.
Brown will do four hour-long specials a year for the cable business channel, to feature "opinionated guests discussing and debating provocative topics in the arenas of business, politics and culture," the network said.
Brown, the former editor in chief of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and her own defunct magazine, Talk, has been writing for The Times of London and Salon.com since her magazine went under.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2003-01-27-tina-brown_x.htm   (296 words)

  
 Poynter Online - Sic Transit Tina Brown
Brown brought her customary purpose and sang-froid to the exercise." That odd term means 'composure' though it derives from the French for 'cold-blooded.'
Brown felt she should be part of the zeitgeist instead of just celebrating it." On a lovely little website, infoplease.com, Dr. Ink found this definition: "the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time."
Brown, and she may have become the bete noire of the gossip literati, but it is a faux pas rather than savoir-faire to wave the foreign bon mot rather than the Anglo mot juste.
www.poynter.org /dg.lts/id.1/aid.2744/column.htm   (410 words)

  
 Tina Brown/Celebrity Journalism - CJR Sept/Oct 98
The trouble was, no matter how Brown enticed them, not enough of those advertisers showed up in her publication.
Tina had paid huge money to her favorite writers and staged numerous and ludicrously overpriced events, like the one in Hay-on-Wye, a Welsh town composed almost entirely of bookstores.
For all of Tina Brown's enthusiasm, and the fact that she did indeed keep the magazine breathing for almost six years (it would surely have been interred — a victim of readers' boredom — had Gottlieb remained in office), she misread the times.
archives.cjr.org /year/98/5/tina2.asp   (1168 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com - Live Online
Tina Brown: I do the column for fun and to keep myself engaged with the movement of the culture, as I was when editing magazines.
Tina Brown: I thinkthe Guardian coul dbe a bigsuccess here but I htink the project is only on the back burner right now till the ad climate really picks up.
Tina Brown: Arnold is too big a subject to even consdier at the end of this on line chat.
discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/03/sp_style_brown102303.htm   (3551 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Tina Brown talk show makes CNBC debut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tina Brown, former editor of 'Vanity Fair' and 'The New Yorker,' will lure stars and power brokers to her CNBC show.
Brown, who has been writing for The Times of London and Salon.com, joked in print about being canceled before she even got on the air.
When she was to begin in March, a few days before the Oscars, Brown planned to talk about Hollywood and the tensions between art and commerce.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2003-04-29-2003-04-29-tinabrown_x.htm   (395 words)

  
 A Different Drummer: Nicholas Stix
So, it was only natural, based on Brown's track record, that Newhouse, the scion of one of America's richest families, would in 1992 entrust the venerable New Yorker to her.
According to Brown, she was just another victim of the World Trade Center attack: "9/11 just put the whammy on us.
Tina Brown married rich incompetent Harry Evans, the longtime editor-in-chief of (Si Newhouse-owned) Random House (since given the "show-no" job of editorial director of Mortimer Zuckerman's U.S. News & World Report), and money certainly helped her.
geocities.com /nstix/tina.html   (1090 words)

  
 LostBrain Opinion: Tina Brown-nosing
Though Tina did once manage to form Heather Graham's breasts to look like two dangling almonds on the cover of an issue (now framed in my office), I never had an interest to actually page through the insides of the magazine.
Tina, do you realize that if all of the people who wanted the magazine to fail just bought a single subscription...
It is a document, signed in blood, sent down by God from theheavens, delivered to this court by the Pope.
www.lostbrain.com /opinion/brandon/brownnosing_pv.html   (780 words)

  
 Tina Brown: Voice for a New Creative Revolution -- Jack Myers Media Village   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tina believes there is "panic" on the news side of the television business and "the networks are running for their lives," although she commends network TV dramas (her favorite current show is "24") and Fox News, which "has a clear identity and flair."
Tina is a creative icon whose star burned bright as a writer for New Statesman and as a 25-year old editor for the U.K.'s Tatler.
Tina might someday return to magazine editing and promises to return to television, but it will be on her terms with a determination to let down the castle bridge and open the gates to talented creative people, giving them the opportunity to tell their stories in narrative form.
www.jackmyers.com /jmlunch/2005/05/09/lam-05-09-05   (1428 words)

  
 CNBC Pulls Tina Brown Show
I have much respect for Tina and understand the amount of time she will need to dedicate to her new project, so I am announcing to all of you that the last episode of "Topic A" will air on Sunday, May 29.
Though I have only personally worked with Tina and her show unit a short time, I have always been very impressed with the high quality of guests that they secured and the engaging conversation that Tina hosted week after week.
Brown is a facile writer, she has the grammar and syntax down, and can turn a phrase.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1398293/posts   (2611 words)

  
 Memorial Day with Tina Brown - Gawker
More logically, Tina thought the Lincoln references just proved how "bankrupt political language [is], that we can't come up with a new speech." Anyway, according to Cuomo, Lincoln believed preemptive war would be the work of tyrants or idiots.
Tina was interested in "the rage that boils up in that, fake, you know, charm," but "aside from being murderous, trigger-happy," what about their provocative sexual energy?
Tina: "Will the psyche of the South ever recover from having lost the Civil War?" Reed: "I think we have recovered, obviously," but the South gained a "knee-jerk reaction" to the federal laws.
www.gawker.com /topic/memorial-day-with-tina-brown-015486.php   (1014 words)

  
 Topic [A] with Tina Brown
Joining Tina to discuss are Mort Zuckerman (editor-in-chief of U.S. News and World Report and publisher of the New York Daily News), Paul Alexander (the McCain biographer who profiles the Senator in the current Men's Journal), and Jonathan Alter (Newsweek senior editor and columnist).
Patrick Jephson, Diana's former private secretary, joins Tina to discuss the Princess's state of mind in her last days, and why the ongoing British inquest into her death still hasn't ruled out the possibility of murder.
And of course, Tina says her goodbyes to Topic [A] and all who have enjoyed the guerrilla war for smart conversation.
www.topicawithtinabrown.com /thisweek.html   (315 words)

  
 : RevolutionSF - Tina Brown to Take Over Editorship of Asimov's : Humor
Widely criticized for her attitude and her extravagant spending habits, Brown still became one of the most popular editors in the last half-century.
However, the editor's job is to determine the ongoing course and feel of a magazine, and Tina had very definite plans for this transition.
Brown has already answered critics' concerns about the excessive costs of this promotion by saying "When you're as fabulous as I am, you don't need to worry about profits.
www.revolutionsf.com /article.html?id=843   (777 words)

  
 Maureen O'Hara vs. Tina Brown. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
As Chatterbox noted in an earlier item, Tina Brown would never have been born had her father, the British film producer George Brown, stayed married to the actress Maureen O'Hara.
In the February issue of Talk, Tina Brown writes that after years of wondering, she seized the bull by the horns.
Brown, her 11-year-old daughter in tow, dashed over to the theater and sat down for what O'Hara thought would be a standard interview.
www.slate.com /id/2060343   (742 words)

  
 Tina Brown resigns as editor of 'The New Yorker' - Jul. 8, 1998
Tina Brown resigns as editor of 'The New Yorker' - Jul. 8, 1998
     Sources within the company told CNNfn Tina Brown went to S.I. Newhouse's office this morning to deliver the news of her resignation, and Newhouse was shocked.
She told top staff in a meeting that after being editor for six years, agreeing to the contract would lock her into a marriage she no longer wanted to be a part of, sources said.
money.cnn.com /1998/07/08/bizbuzz/brown   (375 words)

  
 Salon Mir'Toi [Tina Brown]
Tina Brown was born in New Hampshire where she grew up the youngest of three children.
Her artistic creativity was supported throughout her schooling and eventually earned her a scholarship to The George Washington University where she received a Master of Fine Arts.
Tina is continuously inspired by the loving support of her family and friends.
www.salonmirtoi.com /tina.html   (111 words)

  
 JS Online: Tina Brown Severs Ties With Miramax
NEW YORK - Magazine editor Tina Brown is ending her business relationship with Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein and his partners for an estimated $1 million, the company said Wednesday.
Brown, the former New Yorker editor who founded the now-defunct Talk magazine - a joint project of Miramax Films and the Hearst Corp.
``Tina Brown and Miramax Films have reached an agreement for the settlement of Tina's contract with the company,'' Miramax and Brown said in a joint statement.
www.jsonline.com /bym/news/ap/jul02/ap-miramax-brown072402.asp   (302 words)

  
 >bt: Tina Brown’s Cultural Bigotry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In Tina Brown’s mind, anyone who has read any of the “Left Behind” religious-themed books is not someone she even wants to meet.
Now, I don’t consider myself a religious person, but I will admit a sympathy for them, since it seems that the religious are one of the few groups left in America that it is acceptable to openly despise.
This, of course, would not be acceptable were any other group consistently disparaged in such a way, but Tina Brown and her colleagues in the business of creating pop culture have no problem demonstrating their open scorn of religious people.
brain-terminal.com /posts/2005/04/22/tina-browns-cultural-bigotry   (351 words)

  
 The Blog | John Amato: Tina Brown Needs a Lesson in Blogger Ethics | The Huffington Post
I have seen blogs by TINA Brown..and they are either based on no reseach at all or just product of poor psycho babble.
Oh yes, of course - it's Tina Brown's roasted ass, just handed to her on a plate.
I was disappointed when "Topic A With Tina Brown" was taken off the air.
www.huffingtonpost.com /john-amato/tina-brown-needs-a-lesson_b_11582.html   (1440 words)

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