Ankler hires The Wrap’s Laski
Entertainment industry site Ankler Media has hired Jennifer Laski from The Wrap to be executive producer of brand experiences. She is based out of the Ankler’s Los Angeles office and reports into London Sanders, head of sales for Ankler Media. In this newly created role, Laski is responsible for overseeing strategy and execution of Ankler Media’s growing […]
The Ankler hires Butler as chief of staff
Entertainment industry site The Ankler has hired Kelly Fisher Butler as chief of staff. She will start July 21. Butler was at Vanity Fair, where she most recently served as director of editorial operations, leading teams across digital, print, and social, and overseeing coverage plans around tentpole moments including Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood Issue and Oscar […]
Ankler hires Rosen as deputy editor
Entertainment industry news site The Ankler has hired Chris Rosen as deputy editor. Rosen joins from Gold Derby, where he served as news director, and he previously was an executive editor at Entertainment Weekly, managing editor at Huffington Post, contributing editor at Vanity Fair and editor-in-chief of TV Guide. Rosen will report to CEO and Editor-in-Chief Janice Min and […]
The Ankler to launch international newsletter, expand events
Entertainment industry news operation The Ankler is planning an international newsletter, is ready to go big in events and recently expanded coverage of the trending creator economy, reports Christiana Sciaudone of A Media Operator. Sciaudone reports, “And it still hasn’t spent a drop of the $1.3 million provided by Y Combinator in 2022. All of the […]
The Ankler hires Stefanson as design director
Entertainment industry publication The Ankler has hired Kelsey Stefanson as design director. Stefanson will be responsible for the visual expression of Ankler Media brands — flagship The Ankler, creator economy newsletter Like & Subscribe, and book/IP standalone The Optionist — across all platforms. She joins Ankler Media following more than a decade at The Hollywood […]
The Ankler hires Goldberg, formerly with Hollywood Reporter
Entertainment industry publication The Ankler has hired Lesley Goldberg to be part of its “Series Business” newsletter team. Goldberg will provide television reporting alongside Elaine Low and Manori Ravindran. Goldberg most recently served as West Coast TV editor at The Hollywood Reporter, where she consistently broke major stories. She has received multiple Southern California Journalism […]
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 […]
