Tina Brown

Stephen Rubin: New President Of Henry Holt

Posted 10.27.2009 | Books


Finally, some news from the publishing world's revolving door: Macmillan announced this Tuesday that Stephen Rubin, former publisher at Doubleday, wil...

Young Voices in The Future of News -- Connection, Conversation, Community

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology


Jose Antonio Vargas

It's time for young journalists and, just as important, young technologists to show how news is expanding and being re-defined in a world under Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Beastly e-Books

The New York Times | MOTOKO RICH | Posted 09.28.2009 | Books


Having ramped up her metabolism from magazines to online journalism with The Daily Beast, Tina Brown now wants to speed up book publishing. In a join...

Raise Your Hand if You Think Media People Have a Future

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media


Michael Wolff

Media people are deeply nostalgic for the media -- for when it paid big money and was an exclusive sort of place.

Tina Brown On Legendary 1999 Talk Magazine Launch Party: "It Seems Like That Happened In The 18th Century"

New York Times | DAVID CARR | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media


Rather than the culmination of a century of press power, the Talk party was the end of an era, a literal fin de siècle. Flush with cash from the go-g...

Part 3: Un-Spinning Healthcare Reform - The Economics

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics


Kimberly Krautter

I don't know about you, but one thin dime for every buck you make seems like a very easy trade for being able to see the doctor any time you need to.

Ladies, If Sarah Palin Ever Makes Sense Again on Issues Impacting Women, We Must Move More Quickly to Support Her

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics


Yvonne R. Davis

For the first time since she has been in the public spotlight, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was able to talk her way into an issue that really resonated with the masses.

Stop the Music

Nora Ephron | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment


Nora Ephron

The worst thing about Susan Boyle -- and there are several, but I'm going to deal with only one -- is that she sings that horrible song.

Tina Brown to Columbia J School Students: Go to India!

Abi Wright | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media


Abi Wright

As magazines fall by the wayside, Brown explained, there would be a natural selection of sorts, which would force the surviving mags to be more inventive and thoughtful, "less formulaic."

Live From Glamorous Washington DC!

Jane Hamsher | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics


Jane Hamsher

The celebrities who have descended on the town provide a sharp contrast to the old, stodgy (and let's face it, overly white) days of being overrun by the helmet heads of the GOP.

How Sexy is The Beast?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 01.10.2009 | Media


Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Can Tina Brown salvage the dilapidated print news industry?

Tina Brown Slams "Feckless Bureaucrats" Ruining Media Companies

The Daily Beast | Posted 01.08.2009 | Media


The great media companies are laying off employees by the truckload. They ought to start with the feckless bureaucrats who are running the place. The...

Tina Brown: Give "Meet The Press" To Rachel Maddow

The Daily Beast | Tina Brown | Posted 01.01.2009 | Media


The Meet the Press panel needs fewer David Broders and more Christopher Hitchenses--irresponsible wits who can challenge the B-list senators and warho...

Media Gives Thanks: What Media Figures Are Thankful For This Thanksgiving

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 12.28.2008 | Media


It's been a year of ups and downs in the media industry, from the thrill of covering the Presidential election to the layoffs hitting almost every maj...

Dominick Dunne (1925-2009): A Lovely Man Who Took No Prisoners -- Starting with Himself

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 08.26.2009 | Media


Jesse Kornbluth

The story is no puzzle -- if Dunne's account is remotely accurate, the recipe for early success and midlife failure was developed at home.

Tina Brown: Bush Library To Be "Halloween Shop Of Horrors," Presidency "A Chapter Of Hideous Accidents"

Huffington Post | Posted 12.19.2008 | Media


The Daily Beast founder and editor-in-chief Tina Brown appeared on "The Rachel Maddow Show" (guest-hosted by Alison Stewart, wife of executive produce...

The Daily Beast: Tina Brown Launches Much-Awaited News Site

Financial Times | Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson | Posted 11.06.2008 | Media


The struggling US magazine industry is losing one of its biggest cheerleaders to the web as Tina Brown trades the glossy pages and lengthy essays of h...

Tina Brown To Produce "I Am Charlotte Simmons" Adaptation For HBO

Variety | Michael Fleming | Posted 10.26.2008 | Media


HBO is eyeing the Tom Wolfe novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons" as a series, with Tina Brown and Ostar Prods.' Bill Haber set to produce. Pay cabler has o...

"Women, Power and Politics": How Have Women in Politics Changed the U.S. and the World?

Maria Hinojosa | Posted 10.20.2008 | Media


Maria Hinojosa

For me, Palin's nomination raises a significant question: Is a woman candidate always a women's candidate? How would she fight for women's causes?

Bonnie Fuller, Tina Brown Head Online: Can Former Magazine Powerhouses Succeed On The Web?

Los Angeles Times | Maria Russo | Posted 09.11.2008 | Media


It wasn't so long ago that Tina Brown and Bonnie Fuller were busy transforming entire magazine genres. They lived on opposite ends of the taste spectr...

Great Head at the Midtown Tunnel

Joyce McFadden | Posted 06.07.2008 | Media


Joyce McFadden

The naked woman was on her back, cupping a breast in each hand, with her legs crossed and bent at the knees. Next to her was an iced bucket of twinkling long neck beers grazing her thigh.

Norman Mailer Remembered In Massive Carnegie Hall Memorial

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 04.18.2008 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — You need a big block of time, and space, to say goodbye to Norman Mailer. More than 2,000 mourners filled Carnegie Hall to near capa...

Tina Brown: My Heart Says Hillary But My Head Says McCain

WWD | Irin Carmon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Diners -- among them Charlie Rose, Tina Brown and Sir Harry Evans, Andy Borowitz and a few Rockefellers and Roosevelts -- were asked to vote on their ...

Tina Brown's Next Move: "The Clinton Chronicles"

AP | Hillel Italie | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Another Clinton book is on the way, this time by the best-selling author and former editor of The New Yorker, Tina Brown. "The Clinton Chronicles," t...

Tina Brown's Next Move? HBO

New York Post | Liz Smith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


'WHAT WILL Tina Brown do next?" people always ask. Here's the hot skinny on the queen of buzz. The amazing Tina Brown is in a newly struck, first-loo...