Writing (with Dawn Chmielewski) BINGE TIMES, which will be published in April 2022 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. The book is an account of the streaming wars, with Disney, HBO/WarnerMedia, NBCUniversal, Apple, Amazon etc. etc., all attempting to catch up to Netflix during a dramatic shift in viewing habits, technology and industry business models.

I cover business/financial news as well as a wide range of NYC happenings across film. TV, advertising and theater for the entertainment news brand owned by Penske Media Corp. I also moderate panels for our Contenders series, as well as at trade shows and conferences.

My journalism has appeared in the New York Times, Variety, Deadline Hollywood, TV Guide, Boston Globe, L.A. Times, the Globe and Mail, Forbes and Fierce Cable.

I managed a team of 10 staffers and contributors and oversaw staff and editorial strategy for Broadcasting & Cable magazine across all platforms, including print, online, conferences and email newsletters. During my tenure as editor, which began in March 2015 following a two-year run as executive editor, web traffic increased 32% and followers on Twitter and Facebook increased 24%. Site engagement showed sequential growth each month since June 2015. I introduced Chartbeat, Google Analytics and other tools to the editorial process in order to gain deeper understanding of our content offering. Stories we broke were routinely followed by outlets from Advertising Age to the Washington Post to The Verge. Leading a legacy publishing brand into the mobile age, especially given the strict pay-wall strategy that I inherited, was no small challenge. Yet I showed innovative and entrepreneurial thinking in terms of conceiving and executing online content strategies, re-energizing breaking-news and enterprise reporting efforts and refining newsletter curation. In 2016 and 2017, the print magazine was nominated for two Jesse H. Neal Awards, the first times in its history that it has received multiple nominations for the prestigious business journalism prize.

I worked in the firm's corporate entertainment practice, handling such clients as Tribeca Enterprises and Paramount Pictures. Contributed across a wide range of service areas, from messaging to web content development to brand positioning to media and reputation management.

ANYTIME PLAYDATE: Inside the Preschool Entertainment Boom, or. How Television Became My Baby's Best Friend -- published in 2008 by Free Press/Simon and Schuster ... "Illuminating" - The New YorkerOPEN WIDE: How Hollywood Box Office Became a National Obsession (co-author with Jonathan Bing) -- published 2004 by Miramax Books ... "A classic ... the best of a genre." - The Atlantic

I oversaw Variety's New York office and also reported on film and media business topics.

Oversaw News & Notes section; wrote about the film business; contributed book, DVD reviews and PopWatch blog posts. Throughout 2006, covered box office and other topics for EW.com, which had just been made available to general readers who did not subscribe to the print magazine.

Reported on the film industry; founding editor of the op-ed and DVD pages; oversaw Special Reports

Wrote New America profiles of emerging companies and covered media and entertainment beat

As a full-time stringer, worked at City Hall as well as San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valley offices, covering breaking news and writing features. Was part of reporting team behind Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the February 1997 North Hollywood bank shootout. Also contributed to the Sunday magazine, Calendar and Op-Ed sections.