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Robert Joseph "Bob" Dowling, the former publisher and editor in chief of The Hollywood Reporter for 17 years, died December 30 after a short illness. He was 83. Born on on September 16, 1939, on Long Island in New York, Dowling was given up by his birth mother and spent his first three years in a…

The Hollywood Reporter said Thursday that it has hired Nekesa Mumbi Moody as its editorial director, a move that comes after the trade last month parted ways with Matt Belloni. Moody, the Global Entertainment and Lifestyles Editor at the Associated Press, will relocate from New York to Los Angeles and begin the new…

EXCLUSIVE: UPDATED 5:58 PM: On a hard day of staff cuts at The Hollywood Reporter, the pain is being felt at the top now too. EVP and Group Publisher Lynne Segall is out at THR as well, we’ve learned from a trusted source. The industry vet rejoined the trade back in 2011 after stints at Deadline and the LA Times among…

Editor’s Note: The sad unraveling of THR continues with tonight’s exit of Todd McCarthy, who was let go along with several other reporters and editors. After growing up at Daily Variety with him, I would say that McCarthy is a critic in the mold of Roger Ebert. I invoke Ebert because like him, McCarthy’s reviews exuded…

UPDATED WITH BELLONI MEMO: Four years after Matthew Belloni ostensibly took over from Janice Min at The Hollywood Reporter, the long time writer for the Tinseltown trade is exiting in the middle of the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. Though stressing in a memo to staff that the move is “100% amicable,” Belloni…

Twenty-two people have lost their jobs at Billboard and its corporate parent, Valence Media, in a restructuring of business operations. The reductions were designed to streamline the media company’s business operations and eliminate duplicated positions. Dana Miller, chief marketing officer for Billboard and its…

UPDATE, FEB 18, 2018: In court documents filed on January 18, Janice Rooney’s attorney requested the Los Angeles Superior Court to have the matter dismissed entirely. No details were disclosed if there was a settlement in the matter between any of the parties. PREVIOUSLY, OCT 2017: Over three years after Mickey…

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…

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…

Janice Min, who has been at the helm of The Hollywood Reporter for the past seven years, revamping it from solely a daily trade paper to a quasi-consumer magazine, is leaving the publication at the end of the month. She will be replaced by Matthew Belloni, while Min will head into a management job at owner Eldridge…

Guggenheim Partners is about to unload The Hollywood Reporter and other media properties to the investment firm’s president, Todd Boehly, following years of losses, we’re told. Guggenheim has not responded to a request for comment. Boehly, a co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, will have a controlling stake in three…

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…