Sharon Waxman

A change had come to covering Israel, favoring fixed narratives and activist journalism over a tradition of fact-based reporting.

The 2023 Hollywood Strikes were a once-in-a-lifetime event. For eight months, the entertainment industry ground to a halt.

LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong meddled in reporting about billionaire doctor a few weeks before Executive Editor Kevin Merida resigned

The word all across the Sundance Film Festival was that streamers are less interested in independent film than a few years ago.

Respected editor Kevin Merida abruptly resigned from the Los Angeles Times after getting fed up with owner interference in the newsroom.

While a big win for WBD, for Paramount it could mean the loss of Hollywood’s most bankable star when the studio is ripe for acquisition

For TheWrap magazine’s cover story, Origin filmmaker Ava DuVernay details the long and challenging journey to getting her new film Origin made.

If you’re in the entertainment industry, it’s starting to feel like the end of something, especially after an incredibly challenging 2023.

Studios will devote another week to resolve the SAG Strike or will give up until January, which would spell an end to the fall TV season and push new movies.

As talks between SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood studios appeared to be moving in the right direction, a new proposal led to the AMPTP walking away.

This year has been a painful convergence of long-term trends and short-term realities. We will discuss it at TheGrill, our annual conference

Dumb Money tells the story of retail stockholders buying Gamestop stock to mess with hedge funds on Wall Street who shorted the stock

Writers Guild leaders had an emotional meeting with a diverse Hollywood showrunners including Courtney Kemp and Yvette Lee Bowser seeking progress toward ending the crippling strike now in its fifth month.

At the moment, it’s all about content - and streaming had better get flexible

The response from activist groups and top streamers: Not enough. Too slow. Awfully vague

Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s handling of the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ response says a lot about his leadership style, insiders say: ’100% self-inflicted wound’

Our social media platforms hold an outsize power over whether our democracy stands or falls.

The stunning velocity of change in the entertainment and media industries shows no sign of slowing, as we learned from TheGrill 2021 conference

What you think you know about the content business is changing minute by minute. But we’ll keep you up to speed, join us!

I fear that we are in a moment of interregnum, not a reset after our brush with Trumpian catastrophe