Sharon Waxman, CEO and Editor in Chief, is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author and the founder of TheWrap. She is also the creator of TheGrill business conference on convergence, and the creator of the Power Women series focused on women’s leadership, including the Power Women Summit in 2018. A leading authority on the entertainment business and media, Waxman was the Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times and a correspondent for eight years for The Washington Post. She started out as a foreign correspondent, covering Europe and the Middle East for a decade. She is the author of two books, including, “Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System.” She can be reached at sharon@thewrap.com.
Edward Menicheschi, President and Chief Operating Officer, has held key positions at renowned organizations, including serving as President of the Condé Nast Media Group, Chief Marketing Officer at Condé Nast, Publisher and CRO of Vanity Fair, and Chief Global Commercial Officer at Valence Media (The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Dick Clark Productions). He can be reached at edward@thewrap.com
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Lynne Segall, Chief Revenue Officer, joined TheWrap in 2020 after serving as executive VP and group publisher of The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard. She previously served as the VP for Entertainment at The Los Angeles Times, launching The Envelope as a vehicle for awards advertising. She was inducted into the Media Industry Newsletter Sales Hall of Fame in 2017. She can be reached at lynne@thewrap.com
Oganes Akopyan, Vice President for Marketing and Events. Oganes joined TheWrap in 2022 after a career in marketing and entertainment that has spanned over two decades with successful tenures at the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Tribune Publishing. He leads marketing strategy including supporting sales targets, determining brand growth as well as leading TheWrap’s premium events portfolio including awards season screenings, TheGrill business conference and the Power Women Summit, the largest annual event for women in entertainment and media. He can be reached at oganes.akopyan@thewrap.com
Claude Memmi, Head of Finance and Operations, can be reached at claude.memmi@thewrap.com
SENIOR EDITORS
Adam Chitwood, Executive Editor, joined TheWrap in 2021. He worked for over a decade at Collider, where he served as Managing Editor until joining TheWrap first as Deputy Editor for Audience, then as Executive Editor. He can be reached at adam.chitwood@thewrap.com
Alexei Barrionuevo, Business and PRO editor, joined TheWrap in 2023. He has previously worked as a reporter and then international correspondent at both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Most recently he was the International Editor at Billboard.
Benjamin Lindsay, Deputy Managing Editor, joined TheWrap in 2022. With 10 years of experience covering film, television and theatre professionally, Benjamin was most recently Managing Editor at Backstage. He can be reached at Benjamin.Lindsay@thewrap.com
Josh Dickey, Senior News Editor, joined TheWrap in 2021. He can be reached at josh.dickey@thewrap.com
EDITORIAL
Jose Alejandro Bastidas, TV Editor, joined TheWrap in 2023 from the San Francisco Chronicle. He can be reached at jose.bastidas@thewrap.com
Ross A. Lincoln, News Editor, joined TheWrap in 2017. He can be reached at ross.lincoln@thewrap.com@RossALincoln
Mike Roe, Weekend News Editor, joined TheWrap in 2023 from LAist.
JD Knapp, News Editor, joined TheWrap in 2024. He can be reached at jd.knapp@thewrap.com
Haleigh Foutch, Director of Analytics and Partnerships, joined TheWrap in 2022 after previously working at Collider. She can be reached at haleigh.foutch@thewrap.com
AWARDS
Steve Pond, Executive Editor, Awards, joined TheWrap to lead its awards season coverage in the site’s first year, and stayed on. His column is an informed, bemused, skeptical and authoritative look at all aspects of the Academy Awards race, from the campaigns to the halls of AMPAS to the movies that it’s all supposed to be honoring. A former L.A. Times reporter, Pond is also author of the L.A. Times bestseller “The Big Show,” and has been covering this particular circus for more than two decades, much of that time as the only reporter with full backstage and rehearsal access to the Oscar show. He can be reached at steve@thewrap.com.@StevePond
Missy Schwartz, Deputy Editor, Awards & Special Projects, joined TheWrap in 2021. She was a Senior Editor at Entertainment Weekly, covering primarily film but also television. She has worked as a contributing editor at Fast Company and was Deputy Editor, Entertainment at Refinery29. She is reachable at missy.schwartz@thewrap.com
STAFF REPORTERS
Jeremy Fuster, Film Reporter, joined TheWrap in 2016 and covers box office news. He graduated from the USC Annenberg School of Journalism, where he received an L.A. Press Club Award in 2014 as part of the student news website Neon Tommy. He can be reached at jeremy.fuster@thewrap.com.@jeremyfuster
Umberto Gonzalez, Film Reporter, joined TheWrap in 2016. He’s the founder of HeroicHollywood.com and covers deals, casting and development. He can be reached at umberto@thewrap.com.
Drew Taylor, Senior Writer, joined TheWrap in 2021. He can be reached at drew.taylor@thewrap.com
Lucas Manfredi, TV Business Reporter, joined TheWrap in 2022 after four years working at Fox Business. He can be reached at lucas.manfredi@thewrap.com
Kayla Cobb, Senior TV Reporter, joined TheWrap in 2023. She can be reached at Kayla.Cobb@thewrap.com
Loree Seitz, TV Reporter, started as an intern at TheWrap in the summer of 2021. She joined as a reporter in 2022 and can be reached at loree.seitz@thewrap.com
Andi Ortiz, Reporter, joined TheWrap in 2021. She can be reached at andi.ortiz@thewrap.com.
Raquel “Rocky” Harris, Reporter, joined TheWrap in 2022. She previously worked at Forbes. She can be reached at raquel.harris@therwrap.com
Sharon Knolle is an award-winning Reporter at TheWrap, which she joined in 2022. She has covered entertainment news for more than 20 years for outlets including Moviefone, IMDb, USA Today, Variety, Us Weekly, Paste and the Sundance Institute. She can be reached at sharon.knolle@thewrap.com or on Twitter at @sknolle
Jacob Bryant, Reporter, joined TheWrap in 2024. He can be reached at jacob.bryant@thewrap.com
CREATIVE/DESIGN TEAM
Shannon Barrero Watkins, Co-Creative Director, joined TheWrap in 2023. She can be reached at shannon.watkins@thewrap.com
Ian Robinson, Co-Creative Director, joined TheWrap in 2024. He can be reached at ian.robinson@thewrap.com
SOCIAL
Carmen Rivera became Director of Social Media in 2023. She can be reached at carmen.rivera@thewrap.com
Laura Ehrhardt, Social Media Manager, joined TheWrap in 2024. She can be reached at laura.ehrhardt@thewrap.com
WRAP CONTRIBUTORS
Jenny Peters, The Party Report Columnist. Please send invitations here.
Pamela Chelin covers the legal beat for TheWrap.
Diane Haithman, Senior Entertainment Industry Contributor, joined TheWrap in 2020. She previously worked at the L.A. Business Journal and teaches at Emerson College Los Angeles. She can be reached at diane@thewrap.com
Robert Hofler reviews Broadway and Off Broadway productions for TheWrap. He has worked as an editor at Life, Us Weekly and Variety. His books include “The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson,” “Party Animals,” and “Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange, How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos.” His latest book, “Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne,” was published in spring 2017.
ADVERTISING, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & MARKETING
Michael Kosasky, Senior Director and Head of Media Sales, found a passion for the entertainment industry while working at Creative Artists Agency. He went on to handle Entertainment Sales at The New York Times for over five years and joined TheWrap in January 2017. Michael can be reached at michael@thewrap.com.
Nate Adams, Director of Ad Operations, joined TheWrap in 2017 after four years at The New York Times, where he worked in the ad operations and sales planning departments. He can be reached at nate.adams@thewrap.com.