Variety promotes Shanfeld to TV reporter

Ethan Shanfeld

Variety has promoted Ethan Shanfeld to TV reporter.

William Earl of Variety writes, “Shanfeld joins the entertainment industry’s largest team of business news reporters covering the fast-evolving world of TV content. His focus will be reporting on activity and trends in the creative community and dealmaking among top networks, streamers and studios. He will also put special emphasis on covering major players in world of comedy. He will work under the direction of Joe Otterson, Senior TV Reporter who is based in New York, and Television Editor Michael Schneider in Los Angeles.

“‘Ethan Shanfeld wrote his way to this promotion,’ said Cynthia Littleton and Ramin Setoodeh, Variety‘s co-Editors in Chief. ‘Ethan has proven himself to be an insightful reporter, a sharp writer and an extremely hard worker. We are fortunate to have such a talented and enterprising journalist on the masthead.'”

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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.