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

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Paradigm CEO Sam Gores Denies That Casey Wasserman Will Buy Agency
Gores recently backed down from a plan to cut music agent pay by 50%
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California’s Coronavirus Reopening Sparks Confusion, Anxiety and Defiance
To experience the reopening is to experience, ultimately, a realization that we don’t have any idea what we’re doing.
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It’s May and California’s COVID-19 Fight Remains Muddy
How much more do we know now over what we knew in April?
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Disney Faces ‘Acute’ Challenges Post-Pandemic: How Soon Can Parks and Movies Recover?
Part II of “Hollywood Post-Pandemic”: How does the Walt Disney Co. that emerges from this crisis look different than the behemoth that ruled just months ago?
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Hollywood Post-Pandemic: Digital Players Win, Cord-Cutting Spikes, Movie Theaters on the Bubble
The entertainment economy will bounce back in favor of the digital players
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Dear Governor Newsom: Where Is Our Coronavirus Testing?
A letter to the much-lauded California governor — because we know very little, and it’s frustrating
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The Hollywood Reporter Courts Ex-People Editor Jess Cagle to Replace Matt Belloni (Exclusive)
Cagle said he has “not spoken to anyone there” and is “very happy” at SiriusXM
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‘Bloodbath’: The Hollywood Reporter Ends a 10-Year, Heady Run at Reinvention
The vision of reinventing the venerable Hollywood trade as a business-to-consumer glossy publication attracting brand advertising was never going to work
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Paradigm Revolt: CEO Sam Gores Backs Down After Music Agents Object to 50% Pay Cut
“It’s a f—ing war zone,” one insider tells TheWrap
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Hollywood Reporter, Billboard Set for Deep Staffing Cuts by Owner Valence Media (Exclusive)
Up to $10 million in cuts are slated for next week on the heels of the firing of THR editorial director Matthew Belloni
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Read Matt Belloni’s Exit Memo to Staff: ‘Ambitious People Can Disagree’
He writes: “Well-meaning, diligent, ambitious people can disagree about fundamental priorities and strategies”
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Hollywood Reporter Editor Matt Belloni Steps Down Amid Debate Over Editorial Independence
After 14 years with THR, Belloni clashed with the CEOs over editorial matters
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California Can Tackle the COVID-19 Testing Problem With Technology and Entrepreneurship
What keeps troubling me in all this is the lack of coordination with the most obvious actors who can drive positive change: technologists
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Coronavirus Diary: Squeezed Slowly to Stop the Pandemic
We sat still with no end in sight
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Can Social Media and Technology Come to the Rescue in a Pandemic?
Jaron Lanier, the internet philosopher who wrote “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now,” offers his advice
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