Tina Brown

Tina Brown was born in England on November 21, 1953. She has a B.A. degree in English Literature from Oxford University. She is married to a former editor of The Sunday Times and has two children. Editor-in-Chief for the weekly newsmagazine Newsweek and for The Daily Beast, an online news website, which are owned by The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company. Tina Brown's expertise as a magazine editor stems from her early work as a writer. In the beginning stages of her career in the U.K., she wrote a column for Punch, a humor magazine, and freelanced for newspapers. She also wrote regularly for Tatler, even though she was also editor. Tina Brown's career has included far more than her turnaround successes at Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. She created Talk magazine, which launched to much fanfare in 1999 and scored impressive readership until it fell victim to the economic uncertainty after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Brown's notoriety caught the attention of CNBC, which hired her to present Topic A with Tina Brown, which ran from 2003-2005. Next came her bestselling book on Princess Diana, timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Diana's death in 2007.