Forbes seeks assistant editor for media and entertainment
Forbes Media seeks an Assistant Editor to support the Forbes Media & Entertainment section in our Jersey City, NJ, office. Assistant Editors are the linchpin of the Forbes newsroom. They work at the intersection of editorial (staff writers, editors and outside contributors) and internal teams within Forbes: audience development, social media, live events, sales optimization, […]
Hollywood Reporter makes editorial staff cuts
The Hollywood Reporter has laid off some of its staff, and a third are in editorial. The staff cuts have affected the publication’s web team, styles coverage and international correspondents, according to reports. In Janurary 2019, both The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard, owned by Valence Media, cut just over 20 staffers in areas other than […]
WSJ seeks an entertainment reporter in LA
The Wall Street Journal is hiring an entertainment reporter in Los Angeles to cover the booming business of talent. Streaming services’ quest for subscribers, and popular programming to attract them, is upending the market for producers, actors, directors and showrunners. We are looking for a reporter who can capture and chronicle these changes through stories […]
Beat change for Bloomberg reporter Gilblom
Kelly Gilblom has relocated to Los Angeles to cover entertainment for Bloomberg News. Previously, she was in London working as an oil and gas reporter for Reuters. Prior to joining Reuters, Gilblom served as a banking, finance and residential real estate reporter at Puget Sound Business Journal. She also worked as a tutor at Somali […]
Variety hires Vary from BuzzFeedNews
Variety has hired journalist Adam B. Vary as senior entertainment writer to cover the business of genre storytelling and fandom across movies, television and streaming platforms. A Variety story states, “Vary will write a weekly column as well as produce cover stories and inside features, break news on Variety.com, and contribute to Variety’s new video […]
LA Times hires Bloomberg’s Sakoui to cover entertainment industry
The Los Angeles Times has hired Bloomberg News reporter Anousha Sakoui to cover the entertainment industry. She will start Nov. 1. She will take the lead on coverage of labor in Hollywood as well as financing in the industry. She joined Bloomberg News in 2014 to cover Hollywood and wrote about the business of film […]
Settembre joins Fox Business
Jeanette Settembre, former reporter for Moneyish and MarketWatch.com, has joined the Fox Business team as a reporter. Settembre will cover business, lifestyle and food features for the news outlet. Prior to her time at Moneyish and Marketwatch, Settembre was a digital editor and columnist for the New York Daily News, covering entertainment news. Settembre graduated […]
IndieWire hires six new editorial staffers, hits traffic record
Entertainment industry website IndieWire has made a half-dozen hires across its film and television sections, increasing its staff in New York and Los Angeles. A story on its website states, “The site crossed 11.3 million unique visitors, a record for the site in a month that included in-depth reporting from the TCAs, a week-long package […]
LA Times seeks an entertainment business reporter
The Company Town team at the Los Angeles Times is looking for an ambitious and passionate reporter to join a team of talented journalists covering the entertainment business during a period of rapid transformation in Hollywood. Responsibilities: This is a general assignment entertainment news position. This reporter will help the team cover the major media […]
Coverage: Disney takes over Hulu
Walt Disney Co. said it will take full control of the Hulu service in a deal with Comcast Corp. as it vies for a bigger piece of the global video streaming market dominated by companies such as Netflix Inc. Kenneth Li and Vibhuti Sharma of Reuters had the news: The agreement, which ascribes a minimum equity value to […]
