By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive →
In mid-February 2013 the New York Times’ Brooks Barnes published a substantially admiring profile of Janice Min and the THR relaunch — calling out the magazine’s editorial momentum, awards-season franchise expansion, and broader rebound under Min’s editorship.
Then
Barnes’ Times piece treated THR’s three-year Min-era turnaround as a substantive editorial story. The magazine had been rebuilt around a glossy weekly print product, the Power 100 lists had become an industry-recognized franchise, the awards-season coverage had expanded into a year-round event.
Now
The Janice Min era at THR continued through 2017 — four more years after the Brooks Barnes piece. The PMC acquisition of THR in 2020 reset the strategic frame. Min co-founded The Ankler with Richard Rushfield, which has become one of the most-cited inside-Hollywood newsletter properties of the early 2020s. Brooks Barnes has continued at the New York Times — including a long tenure as the paper’s Hollywood reporter through the 2010s and into the 2020s.