Tina Brown seals deal for her memoirs

 
16 September 2013

It's all over for Tina Brown and the Daily Beast but not for her publishing career. Uber-literary agent Ed Victor has pulled another blinder by snapping up her memoirs, called The Media Beast, and has sold them to US publisher Stephen Rubin in “an exclusive submission”. Rubin brought out Brown’s Diana Chronicles when at Doubleday and is now president of publishers Holt.

The book, due out in 2016, promises to tell the story of Brown’s rise as a surprisingly young magazine editor at Tatler, aged only 25, up through Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and finally The Daily Beast, the online site she helped set up five years ago, that went on to swallow up print media when it acquired the magazine Newsweek in 2010.

Her five-year relationship with The Daily Beast, however, has run its course. Brown is due to step down as editor officially in December when her contract expires. There have been suggestions that media mogul backer Barry Diller was unhappy with the amount of money being pumped into the Daily Beast without return. However Brown sounds like she’s already got plans — in addition to her book — to turn into a media mogul herself with the creation of a new firm, Tina Brown Live Media, devoted to organising conferences. She told the New York Times over the weekend: “I just felt that my job was done. It’s time for me now to get new satisfaction having my own company.”

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