Join us for this dynamic conversation with Sharon Waxman, CEO and editor-in-chief of TheWrap, the leading independent digital news organization covering the business of entertainment and media. An award-winning journalist and best-selling author, Waxman founded TheWrap over a decade ago to deliver trusted breaking news, investigative reporting, expert analysis, extensive awards season coverage, and in-depth features. TheWrap also offers WrapPRO, a robust subscription service for executives and industry insiders, and premium print magazines featuring original photography and coverage of the year’s most prestigious films and TV shows.

Waxman created TheGrill business conference on convergence and the Power Women series focused on women’s leadership. In 2021, she was named Best Online Journalist by the L.A. Press Club SoCal Journalism Awards and received recognition for her blog, WaxWord, which won Best Entertainment Blog at the National Entertainment Journalism Awards in 2024.

A leading authority on entertainment and media, Waxman previously served as Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times and spent eight years at The Washington Post. As a foreign correspondent, she covered Europe and the Middle East for a decade, earning a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1999 for her reporting on the Second Palestinian Intifada and winning the Penney Award for feature writing in 2000.

She is the author of two books, including Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System.

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