There's a perfectly good reason why Jeffrey Katzenberg refuses to take no for an answer. "I didn't know this about myself growing up as a kid, but I'm dyslexic," says the former DreamWorks CEO. "And when I learned that about myself, it answered a question that I had wondered about a good deal of my life. For most…

Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman took the stage at SXSW to discuss their forthcoming short-form mobile streaming service. More accurately, they were defending it — and they unveiled new high-profile projects in the pipeline to sell it. The platform launches next April and Katzenberg said they are…

Diane Nelson, who steered DC Entertainment and also led interactive content and consumer products during a 20-year run at Warner Bros. that ended last summer, has resurfaced in a senior role at Quibi. She will run operations for the start-up led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman. Quibi plan to launch its mobile…

Benedict Men, a new docuseries executive produced by Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media and produced by Whistle, is set at Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s Quibi, the new mobile subscription service, which launches next year. The project, among the first for the mobile video startup, was announced today by Katzenberg…

Quibi, the mobile video start-up backed by Jeffrey Katzenberg and run by Meg Whitman, says it will have its headquarters on Seward Street in the heart of the Hollywood Media District. The company is already in temporary space in the building, dubbed Hollywood 959, and will make it permanent when the build-out is…

Media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg and veteran tech executive Meg Whitman used the prominent platform of Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit to announce the name of their new mobile video startup and drop the names of four high-profile Hollywood players who will create content for the subscription service. Filmmakers…

Janice Min, the former co-president of The Hollywood Reporter, is joining Jeffrey Katzenberg’s mobile video startup NewTV. Min, the former US Weekly editor who left the top editorial perch at The Hollywood Reporter in 2017, shared the news on Twitter. "So YES, you can assume there will be news programming (Hollywood…

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, who first worked together decades ago at the Walt Disney Co., have re-teamed for one of the most lucrative fundraising efforts by a startup. They have secured an initial round of $1 billion for their mobile video network, NewTV, with an eye toward launching the subscription service…

Meg Whitman will join NewTV, a mobile-first media company incubated at WndrCo and founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, as its new chief executive. She’ll be charged with steering the company as it seeks to bring Hollywood-quality production values and storytelling to mobile devices. Whitman announced last November that she…