Helen Gurley Brown clothes and had an unabashedly good time when those clothes came off." After being gently let go, in 1996 at age 74 due to her increasing disconnection from young women, Helen Gurley Brown went on to be editor of the international "Cosmopolitan" magazines. Betty Friedan, author of "The Feminine Mystique", disliked what Brown had done in her book and in the magazine. Friedan said that what Brown was doing was "anti-feminist" and an "immature teenage-level sexual fantasy". Feminist views of the magazine were re-evaluated in the 1990s, however, with "New York Times" media reporter Randall Rothenberg writing, "In retrospect, the
Brown Institute for Media Innovation Brown Institute for Media Innovation The Brown Institute for Media Innovation is a research institute that funds projects at the intersection of journalism and technology. It is a joint initiative between the Stanford University School of Engineering and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The Brown Institute funds research through awarding annual "Magic Grants" to projects which develop applications that create technologies which foster journalistic pursuit, and through direct support to several Brown Fellows at both institutions. The official name of the program is The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation, although it is commonly referred