Author. Journalist. Editor.

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

In 2008, Brown launched and edited the digital news site The Daily Beast which won the news website of the year award in 2012 and 2013. She founded Women in the World in 2009 as a live journalism platform for female leaders, CEO’s, celebrities, and global activists and hosted ten sold-out summits at New York’s Lincoln Center from 2010 to 2020. Some of the women who appeared on the summit stage include Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Queen Rania, Madeleine Albright, Susan Rice, Afghan First Lady Rhula Ghani, Oprah, Nicole Kidman, Scarlett Johansson, Anna Wintour, and Nobel Peace Prize winners Leymah Gbowee and Nadia Murad.  Brown expanded Women in the World internationally with summits in London, Toronto, Dubai and Delhi and with salons throughout the United States. 

Brown is the author of 2022’s 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—only to confront new, 21st-century crises. It is a follow-up to the her 2007 New York Times best-selling biography of the Princess of Wales, The Diana Chronicles. She is also author of The Vanity Fair Diaries which was chosen as one of the best books of 2017 by Time, People, Amazon, The Guardian, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, and Vogue. In 2018, she hosted the 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.

From 1981 until his death in 2020, Tina Brown was married to the editor, publisher, and historian Sir Harold Evans. She is the mother of two children and lives in New York City.