Entertainment industry site The Wrap has hired longtime business journalist Joe Bel Bruno as editor at large for business coverage.
Bel Bruno will be writing deep analysis and reported insight pieces around the disrupted world of media, entertainment and technology.
He most recently was the founding editor of tech news site dotLA. He previously been at Variety as managing editor. Before that, he was the news director at the Hollywood Reporter.
He has also overseen entertainment coverage and was deputy business editor of the Los Angeles Times.
Before joining The Times, Bel Bruno ran markets coverage for the Dow Jones news wire and the Wall Street Journal. From 2004 to 2009, Bel Bruno was a national business writer for the Associated Press in New York, where he served as the lead stock market reporter and anchored the news service’s coverage of the financial crisis.
He spent three years in London as senior correspondent for Knight Ridder Financial/Bridge News.
He’s also held spots at The Orange Country Register, Copley News Service and The Bond Buyer newspaper.
