Awards editor Coates is leaving The Hollywood Reporter

Tyler Coates

The Hollywood Reporter awards editor Tyler Coates is leaving the news organization.

His last day will be May 10.

He has covered the Oscars and Emmys races since 2019. Before joining The Hollywood Reporter, Coates was a senior culture editor at Esquire, the founding deputy editor at Decider and a deputy editor at Flavorwire.

His writing has also been published in Billboard, Columbia Journalism Review, Slate and Wired.

A Virginia native, Coates graduated from James Madison University with a degree in English.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.