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Hollywood Reporter Sued For $5M Over “False” Sony Hack Coverage
Hollywood is closing in on the third anniversary of the massive Sony hack, but The Hollywood Reporter and its former owner have just been hit by a new $5 million defamation lawsuit over its coverage of the attack that could draw fresh blood.
"Callously indifferent to the devastation its Article would visit upon Ms…
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Hollywood Reporter Paying Out Nearly $1M In Class Action Freelancers Deal
More than three years after The Hollywood Reporter was accused of playing fast and loose with how it classified contributors to get out of paying benefits and more, a judge has approved a class-action settlement that will see the red-faced Prometheus Global Media publication paying out $900,000.
The preliminary…
Hollywood Reporter “Lied To Readers” In Sony Hack Story, Says Defamation Suit
The lawsuits over the massive hack of Sony last year may be almost settled but now it seems lawsuits over the coverage have started – at least one. Nicole Basile has slapped The Hollywood Reporter's parent company Prometheus Global Media and two of the publication's writers with a defamation suit over a December 2014…
Hollywood Reporter Now Faces Class Action Suit From Freelancers, Says Judge
The Prometheus Global Media publication's dispute with a former freelancer just took on a whole new form – one that could really open the books on the way The Hollywood Reporter does business. In a pivotal hearing on Friday, Judge Jane Johnson issued a ruling certifying a nearly 2-year old case against the company and…
Last Shoe Drops: The Hollywood Reporter’s Jimmy Finkelstein Finally Removed — Is Sale Next?
Guggenheim Partners today announced the hiring of a badly needed digital media CEO, presumably to put some fiscal diet discipline over its assets including The Hollywood Reporter‘s bloat. In the process it has removed the last remaining Prometheus Media equity owner managing THR after its 2010 purchase. Gone with the…
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Billboard Exodus As More Turmoil Troubles Prometheus Global Media
Prometheus Global Media is the beleaguered media company that owns The Hollywood Reporter and Adweek jettisoned Backstage and the Hollywood Creative Directory. I was tipped this morning that there’s a Billboard exodus underway: popular publisher Lisa Ryan Howard was pushed out and high-profile Billboard…
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UPDATE: Prometheus Selling 'Back Stage'; The Hollywood Reporter's Parent Company “Dropping Assets Like Flies Now”
The Hollywood Reporter's Parent Company Continues To Cost Cut: Prometheus Pulled Plug On Hollywood Creative Directory
UPDATE: Prometheus Global Media is now confirming what I reported last night; that it’s unloading yet another showbiz asset. Instead of calling this a sale, it’s calling this a financial “alliance”…
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The Hollywood Reporter's Parent Company Continues To Cost Cut: Prometheus Pulled Plug On Hollywood Creative Directory; Adweek Also In Trouble And In Turmoil
Deadline recently wrote that The Hollywood Reporter was laying off and/or firing staff because of financial problems. Internal sources at embattled parent company Prometheus Global Media revealed to Deadline this week that the Hollywood Creative Directory employees, comprised of its publishing director of 17 years…
BREAKING! Deadline's Parent Company Sues The Hollywood Reporter's Parent Company For Copyright Infringement
2ND UPDATE: The Hollywood Reporter has just removed from its website PMC’s unique and original featured module comprised of source code that produced PMC-owned TVLine.com’s distinctive homepage. This egregious theft and other issues form the basis for the copyright infringement lawsuit which Deadline’s parent company…
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