By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive →
In late May 2011 — only ten months into Janice Min’s relaunch of The Hollywood Reporter — the New York Times’ David Carr ran a Media Equation column praising the editorial turnaround. The piece was the first major East-Coast-press validation of what Min was doing, almost two years before Brooks Barnes’ February 2013 NYT profile.
Then
Carr’s column documented what Min had accomplished in her first ten months: transforming the daily Hollywood Reporter into an attractive consumer weekly with a substantial newsstand presence, expanding the awards-season coverage into a year-round franchise, hiring senior editorial talent at a rate the broader trade-press industry wasn’t matching.
Now
David Carr died in February 2015 of complications from lung cancer and heart disease, at age 58, after collapsing in the New York Times newsroom. His Media Equation column had been one of the defining media-industry voices of the post-2008 newspaper-collapse era. Janice Min ran THR through 2017 and produced sustained editorial achievements; the relaunch case study became one of the most-cited examples of how a struggling trade publication could be rebuilt. Min co-founded The Ankler with Richard Rushfield in 2021.