from The New Yorker following an invitation from Harvey and Bob Weinstein of Miramax Films (then owned by The Walt Disney Company) to be the chairman of a new multi-media company they intended to start with a new magazine, book company, and television show. The Hearst company came in as partners with Miramax. The departing verdicts after Brown's New Yorker tenure included: Talk magazine In 1998 Brown resigned from The New Yorker following an invitation from Harvey and Bob Weinstein of Miramax Films (then owned by The Walt Disbey Company) to be the chairman of a new multi-media company. Talk Media was founded in July 1998 by Miramax Films, Tina Brown and Ron Galotti to publish books, Talk magazine and the mission to produce movies and television programs from its content. Talk Media formed a joint venture with Hearst Magazines for the magazine only in February 1999. Brown worked with the book division's editor-in-chief Jonathan Burnham and acquiring editor Susan Mercandetti. She recalled in October 2017 at the time of allegations of sexual assault being made against Harvey Weinstein: "Strange contracts pre-dating us would suddenly surface, book deals with no deadline attache authored by attractive or nearly famous women." Simultaneously Tina Brown created Talk magazine, a monthly compendium of news and culture. Staff members included editors Sam Sifton, Danielle Mattoon, Jonathan Mahler and Virginia Hefferman. Its two political columnists were Jake Tapper and Tucker Carlson. Three significant Talk pieces were the first US profile of Osama Bin Laden before 9/11, Tom Stoppard's autobiographical piece about his jewish roots that was the origin of his 2020 play Leopoldstadt and Tucker Carlson's revealing profile of then Republican presidential candidate George W Bush. Talk magazine was due to be launched during a party at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City but was banned by Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who did not feel it was an appropriate use of the site. The star-studded event mixing political leaders, writers, and Hollywood, was then moved to Liberty Island, where on 2 August 1999 more than 800 guests – including Madonna, Salman Rushdie, Demi Moore, and George Plimpton - arrived by barge for a picnic dinner at the feet of the Statue of Liberty under thousands of Japanese lanterns and a Grucci fireworks display. An interview with Hillary Clinton in its very first issue caused an immediate political sensation when she claimed that the abuse her