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By Nate Freeman 11/02/10 6:55pm

First Cover of New Hollywood Reporter Riles The Wrap

The Hollywood Reporter‘s new guise as a weekly glossy has debuted on its website, revealing that the first redesigned issue will showcase an “actress roundtable” with six of this Oscar season’s most celebrated ladies — all of whom are white, The Wrap kindly informed its readers.

Under Janice Min, who was brought Read More

By Nate Freeman 10/07/10 5:08pm

Movie Reviews Reviews

Months After Leaving Variety, Todd McCarthy Lands at Hollywood Reporter

After leaving his longstanding post as Variety film critic last March, Todd McCarthy has accepted a post at The Hollywood Reporter, where he’ll factor into editorial director Janice Min’s efforts to revamp the paper’s staff and content, Media Decoder at The New York Times reported. Since his exit from Variety amid layoffs and cost-cutting, McCarthy Read More

By Zeke Turner 9/13/10 2:09pm

Relaunch

Under Janice Min, The Hollywood Reporter is Becoming a Weekly Glossy

Richard Beckman and Janice Min are scrapping their daily print edition and relaunching The Hollywood Reporter as a weekly, large-format glossy.

The magazine will also have a new website to keep up with entertainment blogs, and a daily PDF full of news will go out to subscribers, who might still be interested in THR as Read More

By Zeke Turner 9/02/10 3:46pm

Enemies

Sharon Waxman's Campaign Against The Hollywood Reporter Continues: 'Oh! My! God!'

Isn’t there somebody else at The Wrap who can write columns about how The Hollywood Reporter is going down the tube besides editor in chief Sharon Waxman? Perhaps not.

Last week Ms. Waxman wrote a column about how Janice Min’s sensibility was turning away Hollywood Reporter readers (Ms. Min allowed the word “bitch” to Read More

By Zeke Turner 8/25/10 2:38pm

Beefing

Sharon Waxman Pitches One Over Janice Min's Bow After 'Bitch'-y Headline

Janice Min said in May that her reign at The Hollywood Reporter would be focused on, first and foremost, becoming a must-read for business insiders and shying away from the minutiae of covering Hollywood. But according to Sharon Waxman, editor of The Wrap, Ms. Min’s Us Weekly sensibility is driving these readers away. Read More

By Zeke Turner 8/11/10 4:34pm

Moves

The Best Coast? Us Weekly Staffers Flock to Janice Min in Los Angeles

Three more Us Weekly staffers have defected to the West Coast to work with Janice Min at The Hollywood Reporter.

Design director Shanti Marlar, senior online editor Lindsay Powers and staff writer (Min’s former assistant) Lauren Schutte are all following their old boss to Los Angeles, according to Keith Kelly. The three women Read More

By Zeke Turner 8/10/10 3:22pm

Covers

Cover Girls in Their 40s! Vogue, Elle Put Age (Read: Newstand) Before Beauty

Doree Shafrir writes for The Hollywood Reporter that three of the most prominent fashion magazines have selected women in their 40s to appear on their September covers. This will help them sell at the grocery store and the airport! Vogue has Halle Berry, 43; Harper’s Bazaar has Jennifer Aniston, 41; and Elle has Read More

By Zeke Turner 7/14/10 2:01pm

Moves

WSJ.’s Owen Phillips Is the Newest Hollywood Reporter

Owen Phillips is heading west to work with Janice Min as the executive editor of The Hollywood Reporter, according to Keith Kelly.

Mr. Phillips comes from WSJ., the Journal‘s glossy, where he was executive editor. Earlier this summer Tina Gaudoin left the magazine to move to Europe, saying her job as editor wasn’t Read More

By Felix Gillette 6/01/10 4:04pm

Moves

Kim Masters to Join The Hollywood Reporter as Editor-At-Large

Today, Janice Min announced that Kim Masters will be joining The Hollywood Reporter as editor-at-large.

From the release:

Masters is an award-winning journalist who currently covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast website. She is also the host of “The Business,” a weekly public radio program about the business of entertainment that Read More

By Zeke Turner 5/27/10 1:10pm

Good Plans

Janice Min Will Grow Hollywood Reporter’s Audience Without Covering Lindsay Lohan

Janice Min, who was hired yesterday as editorial director of the The Hollywood Reporter, discussed her ideas for the trade publication yesterday with The Wrap’s Sharon Waxman.

Ms. Min reiterated that she is not interested in covering “what Lindsay Lohan Wore today,” although she will attempt to reach a larger audience.

“The key Read More

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First Cover of New Hollywood Reporter Riles The Wrap

Months After Leaving Variety, Todd McCarthy Lands at Hollywood Reporter

Under Janice Min, The Hollywood Reporter is Becoming a Weekly Glossy

Sharon Waxman's Campaign Against The Hollywood Reporter Continues: 'Oh! My! God!'

Sharon Waxman Pitches One Over Janice Min's Bow After 'Bitch'-y Headline

The Best Coast? Us Weekly Staffers Flock to Janice Min in Los Angeles

Cover Girls in Their 40s! Vogue, Elle Put Age (Read: Newstand) Before Beauty

WSJ.’s Owen Phillips Is the Newest Hollywood Reporter

Kim Masters to Join The Hollywood Reporter as Editor-At-Large

Janice Min Will Grow Hollywood Reporter’s Audience Without Covering Lindsay Lohan

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