Deadline.com and its parent company MMC is embarking on an intensified legal campaign to protect its original content. I began Deadline Hollywood Dai...
The Wrap | Posted 05.25.2011
The divide between Hollywood and Silicon Valley grew even wider this weekend with a backlash online and in new media circles against Sony's critically...
James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011
Margulies has written two plays that act out the "what if" scenarios that publishers should seriously be thinking about.
The Huffington Post | Billy Silverman | Posted 05.25.2011
It had been a while since the last flare-up in the never-ending war of words between Hollywood columnists and arch-nemeses Nikki Finke and Sharon Waxm...
Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011
Sharon Waxman's claims are so exaggerated, and big lie-like, that, in my suspicion of anyone shouting about ethics in a crowded theater, it suddenly occurred to me to run a quick ethical search on her.
The Wrap | Sharon Waxman | Posted 05.25.2011
So, we weren't joking. Counsel for TheWrap sent a cease and desist letter today to Patrick Spain, the CEO of Newser....
Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011
Let me say it again: News used to be a scarce commodity; but then the Internet turned it into a vast surplus, too great for anybody to consume in what...
The Wrap | Sharon Waxman | Posted 05.25.2011
In our 14 months of our operation, Newser.com, with an audience of about 3 million unique viewers per month, has sent us precisely 1,600 users. But it...
William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011
Is California America's first "failed state?" I asked Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; the governor he replaced, Gray Davis; and a famous former governor favored to be the next governor, Jerry Brown.
The Wrap | Sharon Waxman | Posted 05.25.2011
Hollywood appears to be on the cusp of a new chapter, in which a smaller group of major entertainment companies, fortified by bigger libraries and dee...
Sam Gustin | Posted 05.25.2011
Comcast is in talks to buy NBC Universal, the entertainment giant, from General Electric (GE) in a blockbuster deal that -- if true -- would reverberate throughout the media world.
Sharon Waxman | Posted 05.25.2011
Once upon a time it fell to the local newspaper to remind me that I was part of an urban landscape, the second largest in the nation. But it started to lose me several years back.
The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 05.25.2011
"Along come the blogs, and now they share that agenda with us," said Neil Stiles, the publisher of the Variety Group. "There's no question about that....
Financial Times | Matthew Garraha | Posted 05.25.2011
With one day to go before the Oscars, some tense races are nearing the home stretch. Will the best-picture winner be the favourite Slumdog Millionaire...
The Wrap | Sharon Waxman | Posted 05.25.2011
Welcome to TheWrap. A year ago I left The New York Times with a sinking feeling about what was happening to professional journalism. Today we launc...
MarketWatch | Jon Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011
Sharon Waxman, the former New York Times' Hollywood correspondent, is planning to launch a Web site dealing with all aspects of the entertainment scen...
deadline.com | Posted 05.25.2011