By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive →
In early July 2012, with Richard Beckman exiting Prometheus Global Media and Dottie Mattison taking over the THR-and-Billboard parent company, TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman ran a piece painting an ugly behind-the-scenes picture at the trade publication. Janice Min responded publicly.
Then
Waxman’s TheWrap piece took the opportunity to publish what her sources were telling her about how the post-relaunch THR was actually operating — financial pressures, editorial-and-business tensions, the gap between the magazine’s high-glamour external presentation and what was happening inside the office.
Now
THR’s trajectory in the years since 2012 ended up validating both readings. The Janice Min era continued through 2017, with substantial editorial achievements. The financial pressures Waxman’s reporting was surfacing did eventually lead to the 2020 sale to PMC. Sharon Waxman has continued running TheWrap as an independent publication through the entire interval — fifteen years on, still the major non-PMC entertainment trade.