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Sharon Waxman On the Business of Entertainment

The founder and editor of TheWrap’s take on life on the left coast, high culture, low culture and the business of entertainment and media. Waxman writes frequently on the inside doings of Hollywood, and is is also the author of two books, Rebels on the Back Lot and Loot

  • 5 Takeaways From TheGrill 2021: Change Is Permanent and ‘Great Is Everything’

    I got a lot smarter last week: here’s what I learned about the future of media

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    Sharon Waxman
    October 3, 2021 @ 6:36 PM
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    5 Takeaways From TheGrill 2021: Change Is Permanent and ‘Great Is Everything’
  • Welcome to TheGrill 2021: How to Ride Hollywood’s Consolidation Wave

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

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    Sharon Waxman
    September 29, 2021 @ 6:10 AM
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    Welcome to TheGrill 2021: How to Ride Hollywood’s Consolidation Wave
  • Ozy Media’s Carlos Watson Claps Back at NY Times’ Ben Smith: ‘Bulls–t Ad Hominem Attack’ (Exclusive)

    It’s a real media pissing match after Smith accused Ozy of inflating web and video numbers

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    Sharon Waxman
    September 27, 2021 @ 9:36 AM

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    Ozy Media’s Carlos Watson Claps Back at NY Times’ Ben Smith: ‘Bulls–t Ad Hominem Attack’ (Exclusive)

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  • RIP Time’s Up – What the Hell Just Happened? | Analysis

    The idea that powerful Hollywood women could strike a loud and decisive blow on behalf of gender equity has died

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    Sharon Waxman
    September 6, 2021 @ 11:16 AM
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    RIP Time’s Up – What the Hell Just Happened? | Analysis
  • Meltdown at Time’s Up as Tina Tchen Resigns: Can the Nonprofit Survive? | Analysis

    “This could have all been different,” one survivor who tried to speak to Time’s Up leaders last year says 

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    Antoinette Siu, Sharon Waxman, and Brian Welk
    August 27, 2021 @ 6:00 AM

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    Meltdown at Time’s Up as Tina Tchen Resigns: Can the Nonprofit Survive? | Analysis

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  • TheWrap Scores 13 SoCal Journalism Award Nominations, Including Best Website

    Editor in chief Sharon Waxman and Film Editor Beatrice Verhoeven both land nominations for journalist of the year

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    August 11, 2021 @ 8:14 AM
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    TheWrap Scores 13 SoCal Journalism Award Nominations, Including Best Website
  • Inside Disney: How the Bob Iger-Bob Chapek Rift Led to the ScarJo Blunder

    Insiders tell TheWrap that Iger is “mortified” that Johansson ended up suing the studio

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    Sharon Waxman
    August 2, 2021 @ 9:45 AM

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    Inside Disney: How the Bob Iger-Bob Chapek Rift Led to the ScarJo Blunder

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  • Facebook’s Ugly Update: Everything You Knew Was True, But Worse

    it’s evident that Facebook is not ever going to do a good enough job at keeping our democracy safe. The question is: What are we going to do about it?

    By

    Sharon Waxman
    July 25, 2021 @ 5:44 PM
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    Facebook’s Ugly Update: Everything You Knew Was True, But Worse
  • Where Are We Headed? Our Summer of Beauty and Dread

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

    By

    Sharon Waxman
    July 18, 2021 @ 6:48 PM
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    Where Are We Headed? Our Summer of Beauty and Dread
  • Lessons From the Cancel Culture Era: Is It ‘Shifting the Discomfort’ or ‘A New Kind of Censorship’?

    Our four-part series highlighted the complexities of living in a time when social media has intensified the speed and virulence of public censure

    By

    Sharon Waxman
    June 18, 2021 @ 6:00 AM
    Conversations on Cancel Culture
    6:00 AM
    Lessons From the Cancel Culture Era: Is It ‘Shifting the Discomfort’ or ‘A New Kind of Censorship’?
  • CBS Balks at Airing 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards Over $22 Million Asking Price, Declining Ratings (Exclusive)

    Dick Clark Productions is shopping the show to NBC as part of a deal to renegotiate the troubled Golden Globes, TheWrap has learned

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    Tim Baysinger and Sharon Waxman
    June 14, 2021 @ 4:56 PM

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    CBS Balks at Airing 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards Over $22 Million Asking Price, Declining Ratings (Exclusive)

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  • A Merger Wave Sped Up by the Pandemic Will Transform Hollywood

    A paradox: The number of companies that distribute mass entertainment is shrinking even as the volume of content is exploding

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    Sharon Waxman
    June 1, 2021 @ 6:00 AM

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    A Merger Wave Sped Up by the Pandemic Will Transform Hollywood

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  • US Newspapers Regularly Rejected Political Cartoons on Trump, Top Distributor Says (Video)

    “Editors have become more timid,” says Daryl Cagle, who oversees a syndicate of 70 editorial cartoonists that service more than half the nation’s newspapers

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    Lawrence Yee
    May 25, 2021 @ 3:31 PM
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    US Newspapers Regularly Rejected Political Cartoons on Trump, Top Distributor Says (Video)
  • Welcome to BE Conference 2021!

    Mentorship, inspiration and networking are here for three days

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    Sharon Waxman
    May 11, 2021 @ 8:00 AM
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    Welcome to BE Conference 2021!
  • As Netflix, Amazon Boycott HFPA Over Reforms, Could the Golden Globes Get Canceled?

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

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    Sharon Waxman
    May 9, 2021 @ 3:50 PM

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    As Netflix, Amazon Boycott HFPA Over Reforms, Could the Golden Globes Get Canceled?

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