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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CBS and a Pattern of Toxic Masculinity: Protecting the Predators, Not the Victims
The pattern of behavior is undeniable: Men who should have been called out for bad behavior instead protected one another, while women who dared raise their voices were punished and paid off
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Hollywood’s New Demand for Diversity Drains Disney’s Executive Ranks
In the last four months, four prominent black executives have left Disney – two have gone to Netflix
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Inside Disney’s Campaign to Keep Channing Dungey as ABC’s Head of Entertainment and Why It Failed
Disney loses a top executive mentored by CEO Bob Iger himself
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How ‘Never Look Away’ Juggled Art, Love and the Madness of German History
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “Our county, Germany, has been at the center of every craziness, of every madness, of every abomination of the 20th century,” says director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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Facebook’s Betrayal of Trust: The Fallout Begins
The New York Times’ five-byline, 4,000-word investigation brings hard facts and reporting to the charade we’ve been watching for the past few years
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Hollywood Stars and Execs Detail the ‘Apocalyptic’ Scene as California Fires Hit Malibu
“It’s a surreal thing — you’re in a war zone,” says one top industry figure who evacuated his Malibu home
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Hollywood Women Make History at First Power Women Summit: Takeaways and Next Moves
The response tells me that this gathering answered a crying need, a year after the explosion of #MeToo
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Why We Created the Power Women Summit – The Road to 50/50 by 2020
TheWrap commits to gender equity among its film critics by January 1
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Strauss Zelnick Replaces Richard Parsons as CBS Chairman of Board
The media veteran, newly appointed as CBS Chairman, steps down for health reasons
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Iranian Dissident Journalist Masih Alinejad on Jamal Khashoggi’s Fate: ‘What Is the West Going to Do?’
“We journalists of the Middle East — this is the fear we have in our hearts. We are not totally out of their reach,” she says
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5 Takeaways From TheGrill 2018: The Netflix Arms Race, MoviePass’ Future and More
My thoughts on our annual conference on convergence
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Welcome to TheGrill 2018: Now We’re Talking Disruption at Full Tilt
At our annual business conference, it’s hard not to notice that many of the changes that we saw as smoke over the horizon a decade ago are here and ablaze
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How Anita Hill Paved the Way for American Women to Spill Their Secrets
These women finding their voices is a remarkable moment in our country’s history
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#AfterMeToo: 12 Accusers Share What Happened Next, From Firing to More Trauma
Women (and men) who joined the #MeToo movement in the year since Harvey Weinstein’s downfall share the good and bad of their experiences since
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Rose McGowan Slams Media for Reducing Her ‘Life’s Work to a Hotel Room Rape’
#AfterMeToo: “If I’d wanted to write a tell-all, I could have burnt the town down,” McGowan tells TheWrap
