Company Town Hollywood
If you like, love, or just follow Hollywood Inc—from TV & movies to tech, TikTok & streaming, this list is a great jumping-off point.
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@garysnyder.bsky.social
@drewharwell.com
Tech reporter @washingtonpost.com Newsletter: drewharwell.com/stories Signal: drewharwell.01
@katiekilkenny.bsky.social
Labor and media reporter at The Hollywood Reporter. Baked goods enthusiast. You all finally convinced me to join.
@benfritz.bsky.social
Entertainment industry reporter @wsj. Formerly AI Editor. My podcast: "With Great Power." My book: "The Big Picture." My email: ben.fritz@wsj.com
@megjames.bsky.social
Los Angeles Times journalist. Wyoming Native. Lover of L.A., news stories and dogs. Life-long fascination with Grizzly Bears. #TruthMatters #JournalismMatters
@jonathanfriedman.com
Media, culture, and news nerd. MBA candidate at USC. Bad Robot, CAA, Obama White House, The Verge, NYU Gallatin alum. Recovering tweeter @jonfriedman
@benthompson00.cnbc.com
18 Years at @CNBC -- Senior Producer: Squawk on the Street & former Kudlow Report. WHDH, WMUR & CN8 Alum
@dawnc331.bsky.social
US entertainment business correspondent for Reuters. Cyclist, marathoner and outdoor enthusiast.
@claireatkinson.bsky.social
@abigaildisney.bsky.social
Hi y’all. Filmmaker/activist/opinionated bitch. I’m new here so can you gimme a follow? Americandreamdoc.com
@pkafka.bsky.social
Bleep blop bloop. Talking https://link.chtbl.com/kafka typing https://www.businessinsider.com/author/peter-kafka
@amolsharma.bsky.social
Financial Editor at The Wall Street Journal (former media & entertainment editor). amol.sharma@wsj.com
@willmckinley.bsky.social
Old movie and TV weirdo. I wrote Sony's getTV blog for 6 years, created “Game Show Insider” for GameShowNetwork.com, was an arts reporter for the NYC weekly The Villager for 3 years, and have contributed to Slate, 4 books, and many blogs and podcasts.
@jakekanter.bsky.social
Investigations for Deadline. Former The Times media correspondent. Email: jkanter@deadline.com
@bristei.bsky.social
Senior TV Editor at Variety, covering media, advertising, sports TV, late night and the business of pop culture. Also talk about comics and music. 'Some days are diamonds / Some days are rocks'
@mattbelloni.bsky.social
Founding partner @pucknews, host @ringer The Town, @kcrw; Ex-editor @HollywoodReporter, entertainment lawyer. Get my email: https://puck.news/author/matthew-belloni/
@lucasshaw.bsky.social
Oversee business of pop culture coverage at Bloomberg. Views my own. Write a newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/bdh7w838 Host a conference: https://shorturl.at/nuW1F Go Dodgers
@johnathanappel.bsky.social
Writer Last Week Tonight; words in New Yorker & Mcsweeneys; I talk about my cats like they're my children but when I do it, it's funny
@michaelschulman.bsky.social
Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com
@kint.bsky.social
#HoldTheLine. Ask, think, translate tech/media strategy (subs, ads, video, monopolies, privacy, press freedom, trust) for @dcnorg.bsky.social to advance future of trusted news and entertainment. @jason_kint on X, 20yrs leading major sports sites
@ernietedeschi.bsky.social
Personal Account. Director of Economics, The Budget Lab at Yale University. Former Chief Economist, White House Council of Economic Advisers.
@edmundlee.bsky.social
Sensibility is cheap. Reporting is expensive. http://edmundlee.substack.com elee@nytimes.com (DMs open) https://www.nytimes.com/by/edmund-lee
@jilldlawrence.bsky.social
Opinion writer. Pvs: Editor at USA Today Opinion and National Journal, campaign reporter at USA Today and AP. Author, "The Art of the Political Deal: How Congress Beat the Odds and Broke Through Gridlock." My work: https://jilllawrence.com
@waltmossberg.bsky.social
Now: News Literacy Project. Then: WSJ tech columnist, AllThingsD, Recode, D & Code conferences, Verge, CTRL-WALT-DELETE. Opinions are purely personal.
@tvmojoe.bsky.social
West coast editor for New York Mag's Vulture. (Middle-aged) child of television. Allen Ludden superfan. YouTube archaeologist.
@jonlovett.bsky.social
Pod Save America, Lovett or Leave It, Vote Save America, Crooked Media, mostly water.
@zackbornstein.bsky.social
Emmy-losing Writer/Director (#Shrinking, @nbcSNL, @Netflix, @Hulu, @Dreamworks, @JimmyKimmelLive, #StrangePlanet, @NewYorker)
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social
25+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / board member, NY City Center
@brianstelter.bsky.social
Media nerd. CNN chief media analyst. INSIDE THE HIVE podcast host. Author of "Network of Lies," "Hoax," and "Top of the Morning." Former Shorenstein fellow, NYT reporter and blogger.
@juddlegum.bsky.social
I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47 | Text: 202-599-7124 Popular.info
@jamesgunn.bsky.social
Filmmaker, husband, friend to dogs and cats. Creature Commandos debuts on Max Dec 5. Superman in theaters July 11, 2025.
@willsommer.bsky.social
Senior reporter at The Bulwark. Email: sommer - at- thebulwark.com. Signal: willsommer.38
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
@mmasnick.bsky.social
Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
@caseynewton.bsky.social
Email salesman at Platformer.news and podcast co-host at Hard Fork.
@garysnyder.bsky.social
Once upon a time, a writer penned a script on the Murdochs. And nobody would touch it. Enter the character of Greg Hirsch. Cousin Greg. Art meet life. #Succession.