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 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

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.

Diane Garrett, News Editor, has toiled for numerous magazines and papers over her career, most recently as an editor for AOL’s hyper-local Patch venture. She spent seven years as writer and editor for Variety, and previously worked for Movieline and TV Guide. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Premiere and various entertainment trades. You can reach her at diane.garrett@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.

Joshua L. Weinstein, Deal Central Columnist, covers castings, script buys, greenlights and negotiations in the movie business. He spent nearly 13 years as a staff writer at the Portland Press Herald, Maine’s largest daily newspaper and, before that, several years at the St. Petersburg Times, Florida’s largest daily. He has freelanced for Variety and is co-author of the 2010 report “Reinventing Maine Government.” He can be reached at joshua.weinstein@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

Kurt Orzeck, film reporter, joins TheWrap from AOL's hyper-local Patch venture, MTV News, Buzznet, ICE magazine and VirginMega.com. His writing credits also include RollingStone.com, Alternative Press, Filter, Commonweal, Soma, Harp and BBC.com. He can be reached at kurt.orzeck@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...."