Meet Tina Brown: The Visionary Who Reinvented Vanity Fair and The New Yorker
May 21st, 2019
Toronto
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Former Editor-in-Chief - Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker
“A magazine—a relevant one—should be a sound, not an echo.” - Tina Brown
Tina Brown is an award-winning journalist, editor, author, and event producer. As editor-in-chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, she reinvented and reinvigorated three ailing media brands; authored the best-sellers The Diana Chronicles, a biography of the Princess of Wales, and The Vanity Fair Diaries, about her time building the iconic magazine; launched online news outlet The Daily Beast; and founded the Women in the World summits.
During each of her editorships at Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, Tina identified ways to overhaul content to dramatically increase readership. A true media visionary, she has repeatedly proved her ability to predict "the next big thing". Tina's portfolio includes iconic works including the Vanity Fair cover featuring a nude photo of a very pregnant Demi Moore.
Join us on May 21st, 2019, to be inspired by one of the most iconic media moguls of all time and discover what it takes to build a legacy career.
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Tina Brown is an award-winning journalist, editor, author, and founder of the Women in the World summits. Between 1979 and 2001, she was editor-in-chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and authored the 2007 best-selling biography of the Princess of Wales, The Diana Chronicles. In 2000, she was awarded the honor of Commander of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen for her services to journalism. In 2007 she was inducted into the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame.
In October 2008 Brown launched and edited the digital news site The Daily Beast, which won the news website of the year award in 2012 and 2013. She launched Tina Brown Live Media in 2014 to expand Women in the World internationally with summits in London and Delhi and with smaller salons throughout the United States. In 2017, she published The Vanity Fair Diaries which was chosen as one of the best books of 2017 by Time, People, Amazon, The Guardian, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, & Vogue.
Tina Brown is married to editor, publisher, and historian Sir Harold Evans and lives in New York City.
Meet Tina Brown: The Visionary Who Reinvented Vanity Fair & The New Yorker