Staff

Sharon Waxman, 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.

Kevin Davis, COO, was most recently the President and COO of Hollywood.com, a leading fan and movie tickets website. He is the former managing director of Variety.com, and has 14 years of experience in building digital businesses. He can be reached at kevin@thewrap.com.

Victoria Gold, Vice President Advertising Sales, was formerly with Variety for 8+ years leading the sales efforts for the film division, Netflix, The Hollywood Reporter, A&E, and most recently Apptera, the leading Voice and Visual Mobile Ad Network.
Victoria can be reached at victoria@thewrap.com

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.

Josh Dickey, Deputy Editor, is the former Entertainment Editor for The Associated Press. In his ten years at AP, Dickey worked in a variety of roles, including a stint on the national news desk at New York headquarters, as the assistant sports editor, and at the news collective's multimedia venture. He can be reached at josh@thewrap.com.

Josef Adalian, TV Editor, joined TheWrap in August 2009 from TV Week,  where he built the TVMoJoe blog. From 1998-2008, Adalian worked at Variety, where he was co-TV editor and covered everything from primetime development to the network news business. He joined Variety after four years covering television at the New York Post. He has interviewed a wide range of industry executives, producers and celebrities, including Oprah Winfrey, Conan O’Brien, Howard Stern and Gary Coleman. He can be reached at joe@thewrap.com.

Daniel Frankel, reporter, spent the last seven years as a reporter and features editor at Variety, covering a wide range of entertainment-business subjects that included everything from cable television to new media to film marketing. In addition to writing about film and television for The Wrap, he also blogs about the TV business for the Comcast broadband portal Fancast. He can be reached at Daniel@thewrap.com. 

Brent Lang, 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. He can be reached at brent@thewrap.com.

Eric Estrin, editor of Hollywood Breakthrough, is a longtime journalist and writer/producer for television and film.  He created and ran the LA Observed Script Project at LA Observed, where he is a regular contributor. He can be reached at ecestrin@gmail.com. 

Wrap Contributors 

Veteran journalist Steve Pond has joined TheWrap to lead its awards season coverage. 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.

Steven Mikulan, author of the LA Noir blog, is an icon of the L.A. media scene. He was for more than two decades one of the most widely read writers at the LA Weekly. Mikulan has covered everything from theater reviewing to monitoring and reporting city and national politics, as well as high-profile criminal and celebrity trials. In 1990 he won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.

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.

From print to TV & film, radio to online, Dominic Patten has worked in all aspects of modern media. The L.A.-based journalist & broadcaster, who has written for the New York Times, Salon.com, the Washington Times & the LA Times, among others, was the Arts & Life editor and Chief Features editor of the Vancouver Sun. Patten,  a frequent guest and pundit on many other shows across North America, was the National Cultural Correspondent for CTV News & host of the primetime news magazine series "21C" in Canada, He is currently finishing up "1972 - The First Year of the 21st Century," his first book.

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...."