Tina Brown

Tina Brown is an award-winning journalist, editor and author. Between 1979 and 2001, she was editor-in-chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Talk. She has launched and edited The Daily Beast, founded Women in the World and written 2022’s The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – The Truth and Turmoil.

For her services to journalism, Brown was awarded the honour of Commander of the Order of the British Empire by H.M. Queen Elizabeth in 2000. Shortly after in 2007, she was also inducted into the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame.

In 2008, after having been editor-in-chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, Brown launched and edited The Daily Beast; an award-winning digital news site. It won the news website of the year award in 2012 and 2013.

In 2009, Brown founded Women of the World, a live journalism platform for female leaders, CEO’s, celebrities and activists. The summits which took place at New York’s Lincoln Centre were so popular that they sold out every year from 2010 to 2020.

Brown went on to expand Women in the World internationally with summits in London, Toronto, Dubai, Delhi and throughout the US.

More recently in 2022, Brown wrote The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – the Truth and the Turmoil, her inside account of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years. It was a follow up on her 2007 New York Times best-selling biography of the Princess of Wales, The Diana Chronicles.

Brown also authored The Vanity Fair Diaries, which was chosen as one of the best books of 2017 by Amazon, The Guardian, Vogue and many more.

In 2018, she was the host of critically-acclaimed podcast TBD with Tina Brown, in which she interviewed politicians, actors, journalists and newsmakers.

In 2021, she was honored as a Library Lion by the New York Public Library.