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Tina Brown Doesn't Know How To Use Wikipedia
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Jen Chung
Published Nov 17, 2010
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From the Observer's exclusive on how the Newsweek-Daily Beast marriage was hatched, fun factoids about Tina Brown! "For about 21 hours of every day, someone is on call to answer her late-night/early-morning email blasts on random topics (1:21 a.m., Jan. 22, to 30 or so people: "Can u tell me where exactly Bhutan is?"). In April 2009, 11 people were enlisted to help prepare Ms. Brown for a quartet of TV appearances. It is not a coincidence that her assistant, Lena Jensen, was a contestant on TV's The Amazing Race: To meet Tina Brown's every beck and call, it apparently helps to have experience sprinting across the globe, performing impossible tasks."
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