Tina Brown
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But we did have budgets.
I mean, the sort of picture of being a kind of wanton culture of spending wasn't actually right.
I mean, it's become a kind of
of that time to say that, like, we all had these massive... I mean, I had a budget.
I had to adhere to it.
Otherwise, I would have been fired.
But there were decent budgets that allowed me to pay a staff writer, say, you know, $150,000 a year, you know, to do six articles.
And, you know, come on, that was...
That's a lot of money.
That's a living.
That's a real living.
You'd come and travel their hotels.
We could do that.
Yes, yes.
Because from Vanity Fair, I went to the New Yorker.
It was the next thing I did.
Also owned by Sign Newhouse.
But no, it was an amazing time.
But we also, you know, it was a good investment because it had been losing $60 million when I took over, selling $250,000.
copies.