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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Facebook Boycott Leaders Call Out Hollywood Studios for Lack of Support (Exclusive)
“Non-consumer companies are joining… Where is Hollywood?” asks ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, one of the leaders of the boycott
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‘Insecure’ Creator Issa Rae on Comedy in a Time of Crisis: ‘We Are More Than Our Trauma’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “We don’t really get a lot of television shows that promote Black beauty, Black art, without having to have our burden be front and center all the time,” exec producer Prentice Penny says
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Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg’s Bromance and Our Illusion of Democracy
In challenge after challenge, Facebook became increasingly deferential to our bully-in-chief, successively emboldening him to continue his (often inaccurate, always unkind) attacks on opponents
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Casey Wasserman Back in Talks to Acquire Paradigm’s Music Assets, CEO Sam Gores Sidelined (Exclusive)
Music-centric talent agency continues to struggle financially amid the concert business shutdown
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Inside the Challenge to Media Leadership and the Debate Over Journalism’s Values
A wave of editorial resignations and pushback on a Wrap op-ed reflect a division over the shared norms of journalism
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Jay Penske Has Something to Say to TheWrap About Claudia Eller
He writes: “You wanted to kick someone hard when they were down”
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Variety Chief Editor Claudia Eller Takes Leave After Staff Revolt
The move follows backlash over an article she wrote about diversity in newsrooms. Eller said she was taking “a serious moment of reflection”
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After George Floyd, the Nation Says: Enough of Black Persecution Already
The protests are a cry of anguish: Why can’t we get this right? Why can’t we fix this?
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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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