NYT media columnist David Carr interviews Tina Brown during a wistful look back at the lavish launch party for Talk magazine suggests that the event marked the end of an era. The New York Times Aug. 2, 2009
NYT media columnist David Carr opines that the always-changing, never-final web may be the ideal platform for the notoriously deadline-averse Ms. Brown. Carr also suggests that The Daily Beast is aiming to be a smaller, less chaotic version of the World Wide Web itself — one filtered through the finely-attuned sensibilities of this celebrated magazine [...]
On January 30th, Jack Kliger, currently ceo of HFM US, will receive the Magazine Publishers of America’s Henry Johnson Fisher Award for lifetime achievement and celebrated editor Tina Brown will be inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame. Brown opined that the web has made magazine editing a tougher job these days, [...]
The former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, and author of The Diana Chronicles, has signed a contract with Bertelsmann AG’s Doubleday imprint for the project. She has received an advance estimated to be $2 million. The Wall Street Journal Subscription required. (Jan. 11, 2008)