Tina Brown

Tina Brown

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BirthdayNov 21, 1953
BiographyChristina Hambley Brown, Lady Evans (born in England on 21 November 1953), is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, broadcaster, and author, with dual British/United States citizenship. 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).

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

Brown emigrated from her native England to the United States in 1984, and became a U.S. citizen in 2005. In 2000 she was appointed a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire), for her services to journalism overseas, 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 first annual 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 summit was attended by over 400 investigative journalists and editors from the U.K, the U.S, Ukraine, Mexico, Russia, Nigeria, South Africa, Canada, Iran, Bulgaria and France. Among the 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, Russian journalist and writer Mikhail Zygar on the weaponization of media in Russia, and the creator and writer of HBO show Succession Jesse Armstrong.

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