Sharon Waxman, is the founder, CEO and Editor in Chief of TheWrap. She is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author, and is a contributing writer to the opinion page of The New York Times. Twitter: @sharonwaxman
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Ozy Media’s Carlos Watson Claps Back at NY Times’ Ben Smith: ‘Bulls–t Ad Hominem Attack’ (Exclusive)
It’s a real media pissing match after Smith accused Ozy of inflating web and video numbers
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Lesli Linka Glatter Elected President of Directors Guild of America
Ron Howard, Barry Jenkins, Ava DuVernay among others elected to board of directors
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RIP Time’s Up – What the Hell Just Happened? | Analysis
The idea that powerful Hollywood women could strike a loud and decisive blow on behalf of gender equity has died
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Meltdown at Time’s Up as Tina Tchen Resigns: Can the Nonprofit Survive? | Analysis
“This could have all been different,” one survivor who tried to speak to Time’s Up leaders last year says
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Why Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs Think Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Is Worth $900 Million
Mayer explains why Hello Sunshine is a “future proof” media company whose content extends from TikTok to movies
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Inside Disney: How the Bob Iger-Bob Chapek Rift Led to the ScarJo Blunder
Insiders tell TheWrap that Iger is “mortified” that Johansson ended up suing the studio
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Facebook’s Ugly Update: Everything You Knew Was True, But Worse
it’s evident that Facebook is not ever going to do a good enough job at keeping our democracy safe. The question is: What are we going to do about it?
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Where Are We Headed? Our Summer of Beauty and Dread
I fear that we are in a moment of interregnum, not a reset after our brush with Trumpian catastrophe
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Lessons From the Cancel Culture Era: Is It ‘Shifting the Discomfort’ or ‘A New Kind of Censorship’?
Our four-part series highlighted the complexities of living in a time when social media has intensified the speed and virulence of public censure
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CBS Balks at Airing 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards Over $22 Million Asking Price, Declining Ratings (Exclusive)
Dick Clark Productions is shopping the show to NBC as part of a deal to renegotiate the troubled Golden Globes, TheWrap has learned
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A Merger Wave Sped Up by the Pandemic Will Transform Hollywood
A paradox: The number of companies that distribute mass entertainment is shrinking even as the volume of content is exploding
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As Netflix, Amazon Boycott HFPA Over Reforms, Could the Golden Globes Get Canceled?
The response from activist groups and top streamers: Not enough. Too slow. Awfully vague
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Columns
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The Incredible Journey of Chloé Zhao and Other Reasons to Celebrate Diversity at the Oscars
For those who still think the glass is half-empty, I see it filling up
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Golden Globes Group Faces Existential Threat as Diversity Crisis Grows: ‘Evolve or Die’ (Exclusive)
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s diversity and PR consultants quit after a disastrous meeting with Time’s Up and publicity leaders
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