Tina Brown

  • My Turn

    For years, Newsweek had devoted one-page My Turn for reader’s Op-ed. This move paved the way for crowdsourcing and blogging, which are both technology-enabled (same way the Karaoke machine let the audience to have their turn at the mike). We will come to a point in the future where past practices (museum, musical hall and magazines) criss-cross with…

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  • One is auctioned for 85 million (with tax and fee), while the other merged with Newsweek after it was sold for $1.00 After a lifetime of standardization and automation, something is still of value. Nobody had appreciated Van Goh’s self-portrait or any of his pieces until after he was long gone. Still, we want maximization,…

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