Ryan Faughnder, senior editor for Hollywood industry coverage at the Los Angeles Times, is leaving the paper for another job in journalism.
He also wrote the weekly entertainment business newsletter “The Wide Shot,” which has nearly 50,000 subscribers.
Faughnder was previously a film business reporter for Company Town, writing about all major Hollywood studios, including Walt Disney Co., Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures. He covered such major stories as the Sony hack, the streaming wars and Bob Iger’s surprise return to the throne as Disney’s CEO in 2022. He also was part of the team that was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for coverage of the “Rust” set shooting.
Faughnder earned a master’s degree in journalism from USC and a bachelor’s in English from UC Santa Barbara.
Before joining The Times in 2013, he wrote for the Los Angeles Business Journal and Bloomberg News.
