The book, titled “Media Beast,” will chronicle her career in magazines, from her early days at Tatler in London on through her stewardship of Vanity Fair, her reinvention of The New Yorker and her exit this week from The Daily Beast Web site.
Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, will publish the book in early 2016.
In the interview, Ms. Brown said that she had kept detailed notes throughout her working life and intends to write a wide-ranging memoir. It was time, she said, “To get my thoughts down on it all.”
“I’ve seen a great deal, I’ve seen so much change, so much up close, amazing forces at work in the media business,” Ms. Brown said. “It’s been a pretty interesting world.
Her publisher said in a statement that “Media Beast” will “bring a unique perspective to the forces driving and disrupting publishing in the last three decades as well as keen observation of the worlds of media, Hollywood, Washington and Wall Street through which Tina Brown moved as an editor whose mission was to break news.”
Ms. Brown said that she made up her mind to write a memoir earlier this summer during a series of conversations with Stephen Rubin, the president and publisher of Holt, whom she worked with at Doubleday, which published her previous book, “The Diana Chronicles.”
Mr. Rubin said in a statement that he was “overjoyed to be reunited” with Ms. Brown.
A day after announcing she was leaving journalism to start her own conference company, Ms. Brown said that she had no regrets about the decision. “I had such a fantastic time in the magazine world at its very height,” she said. “I always have somehow had the opportunity to take over some fantastic titles.”
She said she had come to feel restless at the Daily Beast. “I like the creation process and then I start to feel like I want to create something else,” she said. “I love the Daily Beast and I always will. I’ll always feel very close to it.”
“I just felt that my job was done,” she added. “It’s time for me now to get new satisfaction having my own company.”
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