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Hollywood Reporter promotes Feinberg to executive editor of awards

Scott Feinberg

Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter’s award-winning awards columnist and host of its “Awards Chatter” podcast, has been named executive editor of awards.

A story on its website states, “Feinberg, who has been with THR since 2011, will continue to anchor coverage of the Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy races, and at relevant film festivals, award shows and other events around the country and the world. He will also work collaboratively with THR’s dynamic awards team, which is overseen by deputy editorial director Jeanie Pyun, and whose standalone issues are led by awards editor Tyler Coates with deputy awards editor Beatrice Verhoeven, who both joined the publication last year.

“Feinberg’s work for THR has been recognized with six National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and five SoCal Journalism Awards from the Los Angeles Press Club, and Awards Chatter was nominated for the best podcast Shorty Award in 2019.”

Read more here.

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.

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