Halperin named co-editor in chief at Hollywood Reporter

Shirley Halperin

The Hollywood Reporter replaced co-editor-in-chief Nekesa Mumbi Moody on Tuesday with Shirley Halperin, reports Sean Burch of The Wrap.

Burch reports, “Halperin will serve as co-editor-in-chief alongside Maer Roshan.

“Halperin resigned as editor-in-chief of Los Angeles Magazine in July, just a year after joining the publication, amid complaints that it failed to pay overdue bills to freelancers and vendors. Before LA Magazine, Halperin was the executive editor for music at Variety and previously served as the music editor at Billboard.

“‘Shirley brings deep experience in entertainment journalism to this role, and is one of the industry’s finest,’ Jay Penske, CEO and chairman of Penske Media Corporation, said in a prepared statement obtained by TheWrap. ‘We are excited to welcome her back and know her contributions will be key to THR’s growth and evolution.'”

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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.