About Tina Brown
Christina Hambley Brown, Lady Evans (born 21 November 1953), is a British and American journalist, magazine editor, columnist, broadcaster, and author. She is the former editor in chief of Tatler (1979–1982), Vanity Fair (1984–1992), The New Yorker (1992–1998), and the founding editor in chief of The Daily Beast (2008–2013). From 1998–2002, 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.
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