THR Turmoil Underscores Importance of Editorial Freedom for All Media Outlets (Column)
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variety.comBy Claudia Eller Co-Editor-in-Chief What happened this week at The Hollywood Reporter is nothing less than shocking — and deeply disturbing.
Even though we’re a fierce rival of the publication, I really feel for the journalists over there, who have had their editorial independence yanked out from under them by their misguided corporate bosses at Valence Media and Media Rights Capital.
Those geniuses imposed an unethical mandate on THR to soften its coverage of the industry so as not to alienate their advertisers and business partners.
Editorial director Matt Belloni, who abruptly resigned this week in protest, rightly balked at a demand by Valence co-CEOs Modi Wiczyk and Asif Satchu, who oversee THR, to compile a list of people and
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