#65: Tina Brown, Vanity Fair Diaries

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Tina Brown has always been an observer. She began keeping a diary at age 10, became the editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine at 25, and by 30 she moved to New York from London to become editor-in-chief of a then-struggling magazine called Vanity Fair. She went onto The New Yorker and then created Talk magazine. She also wrote the bestselling biography of Princess Diana, The Diana Chronicles and launched the award-winning digital news site The Daily Beast. Currently, she is the founder and CEO of Tina Brown Live Media which hosts the Women in the World Summit. In this episode, Tina Brown opens up about how the magazine industry has changed over time, why she believes in sharing women's stories from all over the world, and the benefits of starting a career at a small company. Congratulations to our No Limits Entrepreneur of the Week: Kelly Howard, CEO of EightSixtySouth Find out more: https://www.eightsixtysouth.com/ Want to be a featured NLEOTW? Know someone who should? Send your nominations to NoLimitswithRJPodcast@Gmail.com Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! It’s easy! Click here: http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 ABOUT REBECCA JARVIS: Rebecca Jarvis is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the Chief Biz, Tech and Econ correspondent for ABC News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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0:00.0	What's the worst advice you've received?
0:03.9	Oh, God.
0:05.7	Go and work for Harvey Weinstein.
0:08.3	From ABC, it's no limits.
0:11.5	I'm Rebecca Jarvis, and each week we're talking to the most bold and influential women playing at the top of their game,
0:18.7	trying to demystify success and what it really takes to get there,
0:23.1	and all the tradeoffs, whether you're looking for answers or you just want to hear a good story,
0:29.2	you're in the right place.
0:31.8	Happy New Year to my No Limits family. I hope everyone had a great holiday season.
0:36.7	Hopefully that feeling of it's all behind us
0:39.3	isn't too depressing. This is our first episode of 2018. It's been about a year since we launched.
0:46.1	And I want to thank all of you so much for the support, for making No Limits a reality, for listening, for
0:50.9	subscribing, for leaving great reviews, for sending me notes on Twitter,
0:55.0	the tweets that you send, I sincerely appreciate it so, so much. And we are really looking
1:01.0	forward to continuing to build on what we've been creating here at No Limits and sharing
1:06.0	more amazing guests with you. So without further ado, on today's episode, we have a woman who has made a massive
1:12.7	mark on the publishing industry. It cannot be understated. From chronicling the life of Princess Diana
1:18.4	to completely turning Vanity Fair around, she is an author, Tina Brown, knows how to get your attention.
1:25.0	Whether it's 1980 or 2018, she continues to captivate the audience.
1:32.2	Tina Brown, welcome to No Limits. Good to be here, Rebecca. I'm thrilled to have you here. You have
1:38.0	an incredible story. 25 years old, you become editor of Tatler. Correct. You move to the U.S. and at 30 years old, ultimately become the editor of Vanity Fair.
1:48.9	You worked there at 29, but you ultimately become the editor, completely turned the magazine around.
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