Daily Mail Columnist Baz Bamigboye Joining Deadline
deadline.comLongtime Fleet Street fixture Baz Bamigboye is joining Deadline as a columnist and international editor at large. Bamigboye comes from London’s Daily Mail, where he has been the newspaper’s chief chronicler of showbusiness in the UK for three decades.Long known for his weekly column for the DM, Bamigboye has been an authority covering the intersection of film, TV and theater, as well as the social swirl at major global festivals and during awards season long known for his weekly column for the DM, whose circulation exceeds 1.2 million.
He will start at Deadline in April, and he will remain based in the UK.“I’ve known Baz for decades and this isn’t the first time we tried to bring his talents to Deadline,” said co-editor Mike Fleming Jr., who made the hire with co-editor Nellie Andreeva. “We are glad this is happening now, as we lean in to growing our international footprint.
We already have a team of stellar international reporters — as evidenced by our dominant coverage in Berlin right now — and adding a branded columnist to the mix is an important step for us.
Nobody is as good in a room full of stars as Baz, who knows and has a cordial relationship with what seems like every single one of them.
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