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journalismism
We're Sorry For Making You Quit The New York Times, Sharon Waxman
Sharon Waxman is a former NYT reporter who quit the paper to go to LA and make her way on the wild World Wide Web, which has "endlessly rich tools to pursue our craft," etc. She sent out an email today to her Trusted Friends and Colleagues telling them that The Wrap News, "which will have a fresh approach on reporting news in the entertainment industry" (!) and will be a "multi-platform source," etc., is all set to launch in January, and by the way please take a survey. And who will the world have to thank for Waxman's new "news and community resource for entertainment professionals?" Heartless Gawker, which made her quit her real job, allegedly!: More » -
huffington clones
Every Print Diva Must Have A Website
You know how you are always saying to yourself "What the world needs now is a website… that would devote itself to chronicling the entertainment industry"? Well, another half million venture capital dollars has found a home trying to do that under the great helmsladyship of ex-New York Times Hollywood reporter Sharon Waxman. So now it's a trend, this "internet as representing some sort of future for the media" thing! Because Tina Brown told us last week her plans for internet moguldum involve a new website called the Daily Beast, and Bonnie Fuller confirmed she was starting her own new website a few weeks before that, and while Waxman is not, like the two other media divas, internet retarded — she has a blog! — she is a lady, and as with the other two we hope her venture, The Wrap LLC fails because we're sick of having new sites we're supposed to check on the internet. More » -
rotating doors
Sharon Waxman Has Left the Building
Often wrong New York Times Hollywood reporter Sharon Waxman has quit her job at the Gray Lady. Based in LA for the last year, she was supposed to come back to New York but well, no one likes her. Needless to say, she has a slightly different spin on why she's not returning. It seems the interweb has caught her fancy. "Journalism is going through tectonic changes," she writes. "To some, this is a very scary time or our profession...The web provides us with endlessly rich tools to pursue our craft...I have been busy gathering a team of top people top people to pursue that very goal, and hope to be able to announce a concrete project in the next few months." [LAObserved] -
Times reporter Sharon Waxman rebuts the attack on her work from art critic Tyler Green. Blogfight! One of us! One of us! [Sharon Waxman]
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accuracy is overrated
Sharon Waxman's New Book May Be Off To A Rocky Start
Over at Modern Art Notes, art writer Tyler Green takes umbrage with something Times reporter Sharon Waxman wrote recently on her blog. (Waxman, on book leave, is keeping a blog in the course of writing a book, which is about museums and antiquities.) Waxman wrote a passage about former Getty antiquities curator Marion True, who's on trial in Italy for conspiring with antiquities dealers who trafficked in looted antiquities. Nice! But Green points out that Waxman seems to equivocate about True's guilt. More »
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leaving los angeles
'Times' Reporter Sharon Waxman To Join Metro Desk
We hear that Hollywood reporter Sharon Waxman, who's been based in Los Angeles for years (before her stint at the Times, she wrote for the Washington Post from the West Coast), will definitely be joining Joe "Private Dancer" Sexton's Metro desk when her book leave is over later this year. (Until now, Sexton had not committed to taking her on.) We've heard (from a single source) that Waxman will be on the religion beat. Her current editor, Culture honcho Sam Sifton, said he wouldn't comment on personnel matters, to us "or to anyone else." Waxman responded via email from Cairo, where she is doing research on her book: "I have no comment because Gawker has not shown itself to function by accepted journalistic rules." More » -
escape from l.a.
'New York Times' Reporter Sharon Waxman To Leave Hollywood
Los Angeles-based New York Times Hollywood writer Sharon Waxman will be going on leave this summer to write her next book, Stealing From the Pharaohs. We understand she won't be going back to her old job when she's done with the book. Word is that Waxman has been interested in a position on the Metro desk, but Metro editor Joe Sexton has not committed to hiring her. 'Times' culture editor Sam Sifton would not comment on personnel matters; Waxman did not respond to a telephone call. More » -
l.a. vs. new york
Who's Winning The Battle Of Hollywood?
The Wall Street Journal's Brooks Barnes has just been seduced by the New York Times, it'll be announced soon— and also by Los Angeles. From out there, he'll cover the film industry for the New York Times's Biz section. This will be much-needed reinforcement in the paper's battle with the LA Times—for years, New York was gaining an upper hand. But recently, things have not gone well for our hometown paper on that other coast. For one thing, arts and television reporter Edward Wyatt has been dying in Los Angeles. More » -
One Times writer calls another's work "riddled with errors and misperceptions, to the point where it is actively misleading." [Dave Kehr]
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