Brower, formerly with Business Insider, hired by Ankler as executive editor
Ankler, which covers the entertainment industry, has hired Alison Brower as its executive editor. Brower was Los Angeles bureau chief at Business Insider before leaving in February. She will report to Ankler CEO and Editor-in-Chief Janice Min and will work closely with her and co-founder Richard Rushfield. As Los Angeles bureau chief, Brower led a bicoastal […]
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 […]
Fast Company deputy editor Lidsky departing for The Ankler
Fast Company deputy editor David Lidsky is leaving to become executive editor of The Ankler. At Fast Company, he is responsible for helping steer its overall editorial direction, with an emphasis on finding, commissioning and editing long-form narrative stories. He also co-lead’s Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies coverage. Lidsky has been at Fast Company since March 2004. […]
Ravindran departs Variety for The Ankler
Variety executive editor of international Manori Ravindran has left to become London correspondent for The Ankler. She had been in the Variety role since June 2022. Ravindran joined Variety in 2020 as international editor. Covering both film and television, she broke industry news and contributed to investigative stories out of international. Ravindran was previously editor of […]
The Ankler to debut ‘Prestige Junkie’ newsletter, Kilday named contributing editor
The following was sent out from The Ankler’s Janice Min: One of my favorite people to work with when I ran the Hollywood Reporter was film journalist Gregg Kilday, a wry, wise writer and editor whose depth of knowledge, relationships and appreciation of film were always remarkable. He also has great taste, and suffers no […]
Biz newsletter The Ankler debuts live event series ‘In Conversation’
The Ankler, a top three business publication on Substack, debuted “In Conversation,” a live event series that celebrates authors and tastemakers in a private, invitation-only setting. The series is in partnership with Zibby’s Bookshop in Santa Monica. The first episode is scheduled for Oct. 16, with New York Times bestseller Michael Wolff. He will discuss […]
The Ankler hires Business Insider’s Atkinson as contributing editor
Claire Atkinson has joined The Ankler as a contributing editor. Recently, she served as chief media correspondent at Business Insider, where she worked for more than two years. Atkinson hosts her own podcast, The Media Mix podcast, and is the founder of the newsletter of the same name. She worked at NBC News as a senior […]
The Ankler taps Kiefer to serve as staff writer
Peter Kiefer, a contributor at Substack platform The Ankler as well as Los Angeles Magazine, has joined The Ankler as a staff writer. Kiefer, who premiered at The Ankler in March 2022, also served as a real estate and city editor at The Hollywood Reporter and was a features writer for a newly launched men’s […]
Siegel joins Rolling Stone as a senior writer and The Ankler as editor-at-large
Tatiana Siegel is joining Rolling Stone as a senior writer and The Ankler, a newsletter in Los Angeles about the entertainment industry, as editor-at-large. She joins from The Hollywood Reporter, where she has spent over 9 years in various roles, including senior film writer, deputy film editor, and executive film editor. She has also previously […]
