NEW YORK — Cosmopolitan magazine’s longtime editor Helen Gurley Brown is donating $30 million to Stanford and Columbia universities to emanate a bicoastal media “innovation laboratory.”
The present honors Brown’s late husband, writer David Brown. He graduated from Stanford and from Columbia’s broadcasting school.
The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation will be housed on both campuses.
Columbia Journalism Dean Nicholas Lemann pronounced Monday that a idea is to make technological advances that will have a durability outcome on broadcasting and other media.
Helen Gurley Brown wrote a 1962 best-seller “Sex and a Single Girl” and edited Cosmopolitan from 1965 to 1996. She turns 90 in February.
David Brown died in 2010. He was a writer of Hollywood hits including “Jaws” and “Driving Miss Daisy.”
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