{"id":208,"date":"2008-11-05T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:40:43","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

About The Wrap News Inc.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

TheWrap is the leading, authoritative digital news organization covering the business of entertainment and media. Founded by award-winning journalist Sharon Waxman in 2009, TheWrap is the only independently owned Hollywood trade, serving as a reliable and trusted source of breaking news, investigative reporting, expert analysis, exhaustive awards season coverage and in-depth features for over a decade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

TheWrap\u2019s coverage expands to a robust subscription service in <\/span>WrapPRO<\/span><\/a>, which offers in-depth reporting and analysis for executives and industry insiders, as well as premium print magazines distributed to entertainment industry professionals with original photography and extensive coverage of the most prestigious films and TV shows of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

TheWrap\u2019s annual events include gatherings of female thought-leaders at the Power Women Summit and breakfast series, an executive leadership conference devoted to discussing the transformational forces in our changing industry at <\/span>TheGrill<\/span><\/a>, as well as awards season screening series with cast and filmmaker Q&As.<\/span><\/p>\n

TheWrap has won multiple awards for investigative reporting, columns, criticism and feature writing. In 2021, Waxman was honored as the Best Online Journalist at the L.A. Press Club SoCal Journalism Awards, as well for for her blog, WaxWord. TheWrap was chosen as the best online news website at the <\/span>SoCal Journalism Awards<\/span><\/a> in 2018, 2012 and 2009, and best entertainment website at the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards in 2018. In 2019, TheWrap won two National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards for the multimedia package \u201c<\/span>#AfterMeToo<\/span><\/a>: 12 Accusers Share What Happened Next, From Firing to More Trauma.\u201d In 2021, the L.A. Press Club\u2019s SoCal Journalism Awards gave the site top prizes for feature photography as well as for its weekly podcast, \u201cTheWrap-Up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2020, Sharon Waxman was honored as one of The <\/span>Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs<\/span><\/a> by Inc. Magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n

EDITORIAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sharon Waxman<\/a>, Editor-In-Chief
\nAdam Chitwood<\/a>, Executive Editor
\nTom Lowry<\/a>, SVP Editorial Strategy
\nRoger Cheng<\/a>, Managing Editor for Business and PRO
\nSteve Pond<\/a>, Executive Editor Awards
\nMissy Schwartz<\/a>, Deputy Awards Editor, Awards & Special Projects
\nBenjamin Lindsay<\/a>, Deputy Managing Editor
\nHaleigh Foutch<\/a>, Director of Audience<\/p>\n

Josh Dickey<\/a>, Senior News Editor
\nJD Knapp<\/a>, Morning Editor
\nDaren DeFrank<\/a>, News Editor
\nRoss Lincoln<\/a>, Night Editor<\/p>\n

Umberto Gonzalez<\/a>, Film Reporter
\nJeremy Fuster<\/a>, Box Office\/Labor Reporter
\nDrew Taylor<\/a>, Senior Writer and Film Reporter<\/p>\n

Jose Alejandro Bastidas<\/a>, TV Editor
\nLucas Manfredi<\/a>, TV Business Reporter
\nKayla Cobb<\/a>, Senior TV Reporter
\nLoree Seitz<\/a>, TV Reporter<\/p>\n

Tess Patton<\/a>, Reporter<\/p>\n

Andi Ortiz<\/a>, Audience Team Reporter
\nJacob Bryant<\/a>, Audience Team Reporter
\nAlex Welch<\/a>, Audience Team Reporter
\nRaquel Harris<\/a>, Audience Team Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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