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Erin Weinger joins THR.com as Style Editor — and the fashion-brand build-out
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late February 2013 The Hollywood Reporter announced Erin Weinger as its new Style Editor on the website side, reporting to culture editor Degen Pener and THR.com editor Chris Krewson. The hire signaled how seriously THR’s Janice Min era was treating…
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Marc Bernardin, Tatiana Siegel, and Jen Hoche join THR — January 2013 buildout continues
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late January 2013, The Hollywood Reporter continued its editorial-staff buildout with Marc Bernardin, Tatiana Siegel, and Jen Hoche. Then Bernardin joined as a film and TV writer with a comics-and-genre background from Entertainment Weekly and io9. Siegel came in as…
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Finke breaks news of pending Variety layoffs — three months after the PMC deal closed
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late January 2013, Nikki Finke published a Deadline.com item announcing that PMC was planning Variety editorial firings in March. The story was unusual not because the layoffs were happening — that was widely expected — but because the breaking of…
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Janice Min’s January 2013 THR reinforcement hires — Magzanyan, Belloni, and the path to break-even
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late January 2013 The Hollywood Reporter announced a slate of hires across marketing and editorial — Anna Magzanyan as VP of marketing, plus Matthew Belloni’s elevation to executive editor and other moves on the digital side. The FishbowlLA framing was…
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The Hollywood Reporter’s parent company gets a new name and a new boss
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2013 In January 2013 FishbowlLA reported a corporate rebrand that signaled bigger ambitions for The Hollywood Reporter’s owner — and a sharper rivalry at the top of the trade business. Then Under Guggenheim Partners, The Hollywood Reporter’s parent company — until…
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When the Academy’s first online-balloting year produced a same-day awards-press dustup
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → The 2012-2013 Oscar season was the first year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences moved to online member balloting, and the rollout went poorly. The press story that surfaced the problem belonged to Scott Feinberg at THR. The story…
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Animal Radio’s Davy Jones final-interview re-air — a 2012 obit-in-broadcast format
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In late December 2012, syndicated weekly Animal Radio announced it would re-air its final interview with Davy Jones — the Monkees frontman who had died in February 2012 of a heart attack at 66. The interview had been one of the…