How The Ankler aims to cover Hollywood
Joe Pompeo of Vanity Fair writes about The Ankler, a new publication covering Hollywood. Pompeo writes, “The Ankler, which he started in late 2016, chronicles Hollywood in all of its naked theatricality, with a mischievous bent and a sardonic regard for the industry’s towering egos. It’s a sensibility Rushfield has nurtured for years through an array […]
The legend of Hollywood industry reporter Nikki Finke
Jacob Bernstein of The New York Times writes about Hollywood industry reporter Nikki Finke, who died in October and was the founder of Deadline Hollywood. Bernstein writes, “Her site became a must-read thanks to her day-by-day, and sometimes hour-by-hour, coverage of the writers’ strike of 2007-2008. ‘Like it or not, everyone in Hollywood reads her,” Brad Grey, […]
Variety records record website traffic in 2022
Variety.com, the online home of entertainment business magazine Variety, scored record-breaking traffic in 2022. An average of 28.5 million unique users visited the site each month in 2022, and Variety reached a bigger digital audience than consumer news publications such as Vanity Fair and Entertainment Weekly, as measured by unique visitors, according to ComScore. Variety’s […]
The Wrap hires TV editor and film editor
Entertainment industry news site The Wrap has hired Kristen Lopez was film editor and Jose Alejandro Bastidas as TV editor. A story on its website states, “Lopez and Bastidas will be responsible for managing, mentoring and growing their respective editorial teams, in addition to editing and writing film and television news and features. The new […]
LA Times names Faughnder a senior editor, Parvini a video game reporter
Los Angeles Times Company Town and A&E Investigations Editor Richard Verrier sent the following to the staff on Tuesday: As the Los Angeles Times continues to expand and deepen its coverage of the entertainment industry, we are pleased to announce new positions with the Company Town team. Veteran film industry reporter Ryan Faughnder has been […]
Dawn Wotapka’s Media Movers: Alex Weldon of Bonus
This week, I took a gamble (sorry, I couldn’t resist a pun) and chatted with Alex Weldon, the casino news editor for Bonus. While many journalists brag about A-list internships, Alex is a former semiprofessional poker player who has been writing about online gambling professionally since 2014. His team’s work, which includes everything from elections […]
Mendelson departs Forbes for The Wrap
Forbes staff writer Scott Mendelson is leaving Forbes and joining The Wrap as senior film reporter. He will start on Monday. Mendelson has been at Forbes since April 2013 as a contributing writer and as a staff writer since January 2021. He previously was a film critic for The Huffington Post. He has also worked for Salon, […]
SmartWork Media seeks an associate editor or managing editor
Business-to-business magazines serving the digital print and screen printing industries seek an Associate Editor or Managing Editor with a journalism or communications degree; print, website, and social media skills; and a minimum of 1-2 years (Associate Editor) or 3 or more years (Managing Editor) of experience writing, editing, and managing content. Demonstrated ability to learn […]
IndieWire hires Welk as a senior business reporter
IndieWire has tapped Brian Welk to serve as a senior business reporter. In his role, Welk will continue to expand IndieWire’s business coverage of film, streaming, and TV, and will also increase its breaking news coverage across the entertainment industry. Recently, Welk was at The Wrap for six years, where he recently served as a […]
The lack of ethics in Nikki Finke’s journalism
Matt Belloni, former editorial director at The Hollywood Reporter, writes for Puck about legendary entertainment industry reporter Nikki Finke, who died Sunday at the age of 68. Belloni writes, “I’m all for being super-aggressive on a story—but she’d try to destroy lives, to get agents and assistants fired if they wouldn’t do her bidding. She’d torment publicists […]
