Entertainment industry reporter Voytko-Best departs Forbes
Lisette Voytko-Best, who covered the entertainment industry for Forbes, has left the publication. Voytko-Best is moving to England. “I’m inescapably sad to leave a place that has meant so much professionally, and gutted to no longer work with my talented, hilarious colleagues,” she wrote on LinkedIn. She was a senior entertainment reporter at Forbes focusing on deal […]
The Wrap seeks a senior business reporter
TheWrap is hiring a seasoned business reporter to join our team and help anchor our coverage of the entertainment business. The Senior Business Reporter will be tasked with ideating, writing and reporting on coverage of the business of entertainment, including film, television and media, with breaking news, deeply reported stories and earnings coverage and analysis. […]
The Wrap seeks a business reporter
TheWrap is seeking a part time business and news writer who can write about financial markets and assist the morning news team with breaking news. You should be well-versed in writing business and financial news, with a specific focus on how it relates to the entertainment and media sectors. Your copy should be clean, clever […]
Crosbie named senior entertainment reporter at Business Insider
Eve Crosbie has been named a senior entertainment reporter at Business Insider, based in London. Her coverage includes historical and fantasy dramas (“Outlander,” “The Crown” ), the reality star family the Chrisleys, “Yellowstone” and its spinoffs, as well as general entertainment and celebrity culture. Before joining Business Insider in 2022, she wrote for publications including […]
CNN entertainment writer Lowry is departing
Veteran entertainment industry reporter Brian Lowry is departing CNN, reports Brian Steinberg of Variety. Steinberg writes, “Lowry holds deep knowledge of the television and studio business and an ability to discuss it with both wit and concision, qualities that have buoyed him over a long career also spent at Variety and The Los Angeles Times. In recent weeks, he […]
Variety promotes Maas to cover video game industry
Jennifer Maas has been promoted to senior business writer for television and video games at Variety. A story on its website states, “She will lead the entertainment news brand’s heightened coverage of the video game industry with special emphasis on the convergence of game content and IP with TV shows, movies, books and other media. “With […]
AJC hires Sicurella to cover the business of entertainment
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has hired Savannah Sicurella to cover the business of the region’s entertainment industry, including film and music. She will start next week Sicurella has been covering commercial real estate with a focus on the office sector and restaurants for the Atlanta Business Chronicle. She joined the Chronicle in 2021. She has a degree in […]
Masunaga now covering entertainment biz for LA Times
Los Angeles Times business reporter Samantha Masunaga is now covering entertainment business news. Masunaga has been writing about workplace culture and also covers the aerospace industry. Since joining The Times in 2014, she has covered local and national breaking news, the craft beer industry and Southern California’s Japanese American community. Masunaga has previously worked for […]
How The Ankler is thriving covering the entertainment industry
Katie Robertson and Benjamin Mullin of The New York Times examine some startup news organizations that are thriving. Robertson and Mullin write, “The Ankler, a paid newsletter focused on Hollywood, is anchored by Richard Rushfield, an entertainment journalist who has emerged as Hollywood’s unsparing gadfly, narrating the industry’s unending chaos and skewering the actors, agents and executives responsible […]
Why Matthew Belloni’s entertainment industry newsletter thrives
Nicholas Quah of Vulture profiles Matthew Belloni, who writes an entertainment industry newsletter for Puck. Quah writes, “The newsletter in question, Puck’s What I’m Hearing, with 15,000 paid subscribers (and 35,000 more unpaid ones who can only read snippets), has steadily become the go-to chronicle of Hollywood, a must-read among the entertainment power elite, those who aspire […]
