Sharon Waxman, CEO and Editor in Chief, is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author, a former Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times and a leading authority on the entertainment business and media. Before the Times, she was a correspondent for eight years for The Washington Post. She started out as a foreign correspondent, covering Europe and the Middle East for a decade. She is the founder and CEO of The Wrap, and the author of two books, including, “Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System.” She can be reached at sharon@thewrap.com.

Mark J. Davis, Chief Operating Officer, is a veteran of media organizations, both legacy and digital. He joins TheWrap from having run digital strategy at the San Diego Union-Tribune. He can be reached at mark@thewrap.com.

Stacey Farish, Publisher, is one of the most respected advertising executives in the entertainment ad sales space. She has been a leading executive at the Los Angeles Times since 2007, building a suite of advertising products in the entertainment and media categories that significantly grew the newspaper’s revenue.  She left the Times as VP of Media and Live Entertainment. She can be reached at stacey.farish@thewrap.com.

Newsroom

Lisa Fung, Executive Editor, comes to TheWrap from The Los Angeles Times, where she last served as Arts & Entertainment Editor in charge of Calendar and Envelope online. During her 24 years at The Times, she also worked as an editor in the Business and Metro/Suburban sections and helped launch the National Edition of The Times. She is the founding editor of Culture Monster, one of the first newspaper sites devoted solely to arts and culture news and features. She previously worked at the Des Moines Register as a features editor, national/foreign editor and metro editor and reporter. She can be reached at lisa.fung@thewrap.com or on Twitter at @lfung

Lew Harris, Managing Editor, is the former Editor-in-Chief of Los Angeles Magazine and founding Editor-in-Chief of E! Online. He's also been entertainment editor of People Magazine, senior editor/west coast of US Weekly and, most recently, Editorial Director of Movies.com. He can be reached at lew@thewrap.com.

Tim Molloy, TV Editor, is a former reporter and National Desk editor for The Associated Press, as well as the former managing editor of TVGuide.com. His first novel, "How to Break Bad News," was published in 2008. You can find him at Tim@thewrap.com.

Kasia Anderson, News Editor, is the former associate editor at Truthdig.com, where she helped launch the site's Arts & Culture section. She previously worked as an entertainment reporter for the New York Daily News and as Reel.com's news editor. She is also plugging away a dissertation about celebrity and politics at USC's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. Kasia can be reached at kasia.anderson@thewrap.com. 

Todd Cunningham, News Editor, is the former managing editor of the Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety. He served a term as president of the L.A. Newspaper Guild, and his play "The Good Hours" was staged in 2008. Todd can be reached at Todd.Cunningham@thewrap.com.

Brent Lang, Film Reporter, joins TheWrap from his most recent position as an intern-reporter on the business desk of "The Patriot Ledger." A graduate of Brown and Columbia universities, he has also worked at CBSNews.com and Forbes.com. He can be reached at brent@thewrap.com.

Lucas Shaw, Film Reporter, wrote for the Los Angeles Times, Daily Variety and GQ.com before joining TheWrap. He covers the intersection of film and media, with occasional tumbles into music, sports and technology. Food blogging may be next. He can be reached at lucas.shaw@thewrap.com

Tim Kenneally, TV Reporter, is a former editor for Celebuzz.com, Men's Edge and Hustler. Tim covers television for TheWrap. In his off time, he enjoys curling up with a mug of hot cocoa, his DVD box set of "Antiques Roadshow" and his pet tabby, Mr. Snugglesworth.  Tim can be reached at tim.kenneally@thewrap.com.

Steve Pond, Columnist, The Odds, joined TheWrap to lead its awards season coverage, and stayed on. His column, The Odds, is an informed, bemused, skeptical and authoritative look at all aspects of the Academy Awards race, from the campaigns to the halls of AMPAS to the movies that it’s all supposed to be honoring. A former L.A. Times reporter, Pond is also author of the L.A. Times bestseller The Big Show, and has been covering this particular circus for more than two decades, much of that time as the only reporter with full backstage and rehearsal access to the Oscar show. He can be reached at steve@thewrap.com.

Fred Schruers, Columnist, arrived in Los Angeles in the early 90's to work in the local bureau of Premiere Magazine, where he was a staff writer and part of the magazine's annual Power List team. That tenure was book-ended by extensive periods writing features on music, film, television, sports and military affairs at Rolling Stone. He wrote "The Hollywood Deal" business blog column for Portfolio.com. He'll be covering the entertainment industry's power brokers, along with the talent they marshal.  Fred can be reached at fred.schruers@thewrap.com

Advertising

Caren Gibbens, Director of Sales, comes to TheWrap from the Los Angeles Times where she was an Advertising Manager responsible for sales in the Live Entertainment and Media category.  She help launch Culture Monster which  grew revenues 100% year over year.  Before coming to the  Los Angeles Times Caren ran the West Coast sales office for Advertising Age. You'll find her at caren.gibbens@thewrap.com.

Wrap Contributors

Andrew Gumbel is a Los Angeles-based journalist and writer and a longtime foreign correspondent for British newspapers, including 13 years with The Independent of London. He came to the United States in 1998 and has written extensively about politics, the criminal justice system, the entertainment industry and pop culture. He is the author of Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America (Nation Books, 2005). 

Michael Janofsky is a veteran journalist who spent 24 years at The New York Times, where he was a Washington and national correspondent. Now an L.A.-based writer, he writes frequently about politics, movies and remains a fan of his hometown Baltimore Orioles.

American humor would not be the same without Peter Mehlman, a former co-executive producer of "Seinfeld" and leading television writer and producer. He served as a producer and writer through nearly all of the show's nine-year run on NBC. He also produced the 2004 series, "It's Like, You Know...."