Sharon Waxman, is the founder, CEO and Editor in Chief of TheWrap. She is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author, and was a Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times. Twitter: @sharonwaxman
Experience:
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Bloomberg’s Pearlstine: Grilled
“I didn’t say the magazine has to be profitable. But we have to run BusinessWeek as a business.”
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Lionsgate Issues Debt to Generate Cash
Company seeks to raise $215 m to pay down credit facility
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Why Bloomberg Bought BusinessWeek (updated with counter view)
An insider explains: brand extension, and a 1 million customer base – for free
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Toldja Truth-Squad: From Dismissal to ‘Exclusive!’ in 2 Short Weeks
Maybe we should get The New Yorker to order up a fact-check?
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Fox Co-President Young Gets Bounced (updated)
Alex Young, criticized internally for performance of franchises, leaves Emma Watt in charge of studio production
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Ad Age Offers 4 Marketing Lessons from ‘Paranormal’
“Don’t waste money on large-scale TV campaigns when you can talk directly to your fans.”
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CNN’s ‘Reliable Sources’: Is Letterman a Cad?
Sharon debates the harsh truth about late-night talk show host sex, with Howard Kurtz
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Comcast & NBC-U: ‘They’ve All Agreed to Agree’
And GE’s Immelt calls Zucker “as good as anyone running a media company today.” Seriously?
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Distributors Circling Oren Peli’s ‘Area 51’
As ‘Paranormal’ takes big bucks, distribution rights are up for the director’s next project
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What’s Happening at the L.A. Weekly? Exit Mikulan
Update Sunday October 11: I spoke to Steve Mikulan today, who told me that he’d only recently received a gift from his bosses to mark his landmark 25 years at the L.A. Weekly. I told him he’d only caught the same disease that’s afflicting far too many good journalists these days. He replied that he’d…
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Rena Ronson to UTA
Bumped from William Morris, the indie agent joins rival agency; will head indie dept with Rich Klubeck
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Ari Pushback: Realtor Gets Legal in WME Building Dispute
“Under no scenario does WME have the right to walk away from this deal. There is no ‘loophole.”
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Regime Change in Hollyw’d: Unh-Uh … It’s About the Basics
Analysis: The new group of movie executives will need to embrace more than Twitter.
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‘Entourage’s’ Doug Ellin Explains: For the Kids
Matt Damon — yeah, sure, he is a movie star … technically … but clearly he needed some exposure.
