Kim Masters

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Kim Masters
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Bryn Mawr College
OccupationEntertainment journalist

Kim Masters is an American entertainment journalist. She is an editor-at-large [1] at The Hollywood Reporter . [2] She is also host of KCRW's weekly radio show "The Business." [3] [4]

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Early life

Masters is an alumna of Bryn Mawr College, graduating in 1976. [5]

Career

Masters did not begin as a media reporter, she began her journalism career at Education Daily, [6] a newspaper in the Washington, D.C. area. [7] Masters was [5] a staff reporter for The Washington Post , [8] [9] [10] a correspondent for NPR, and contributing editor for Vanity Fair , [5] Time , [11] and Esquire . [12] [13]

In 1991, Masters left Premiere magazine. [14]

Masters later became an entertainment correspondent for National Public Radio. [14]

In 1993, Masters obtained, for her first assignment by Vanity Fair, the first interview with Lorena Bobbitt. [15]

In 2000, Masters quit Time to work for Steve Brill's Inside magazine (2000-2001). [16] [17]

Between 2006 and 2008, Masters wrote articles for Hollywoodland, a blog for Slate magazine. [14] [18]

In 2016, she was appointed to the Peabody Board of Jurors. [19]

In 2017, Masters' article, on sexual harassment claims against Roy Price, head of Amazon Studios, was declined by The Hollywood Reporter , The New York Times , BuzzFeed News, and others, before being published in August by The Information. [20] [21] [22] [23] Later, in October 2017, The Hollywood Reporter published two articles by Masters which covered Price's subsequent suspension from Amazon Studios. [24] [25]

Books

Masters is the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else. [26] [27] Entertainment Weekly gave the book a mixed review, calling it a "lacerating, 450-page takedown," but also writing that it contains "way too much inside baseball to anybody outside the New York-Los Angeles media axis." [28]

Masters and Nancy Griffin co-authored Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood. Publishers Weekly called the book "a shocking read that will have readers gasping at the obscene overindulgence of Hollywood." [29] [30]

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  1. ↑ "Hollywood Reporter hires Kim Masters". Company Town: The business behind the show. LA Times Blogs. June 1, 2010.
  2. ↑ Giuliani-Hoffman, Francesca (October 20, 2017). "'I heard you rape women': How journalist Kim Masters stood up to 'bully' Harvey Weinstein". CNNMoney.
  3. ↑ "The Business | Entertainment Industry News & Discussion". June 29, 2006.
  4. ↑ "The Business".
  5. 1 2 3 "Ask the Tough Questions". Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin. Retrieved September 16, 2021. Kim Masters '76 shares her thoughts about journalism
  6. ↑ "Ed Daily Splash Page".
  7. ↑ "2013 NAEJ" (PDF). Los Angeles Press Club.
  8. ↑ Masters, Kim (June 19, 1988). "'Roger Rabbit'- Disney's Bold Gamble In Animation". Washington Post. Retrieved September 16, 2021. Reprinted from Premiere Magazine
  9. ↑ Masters, Kim (April 7, 1996). "LAW AND DISORDER". Washington Post. Retrieved September 16, 2021. When I tell people that my job, these last few years, has been split between covering politics in Washington and show business in Hollywood, they assume a knowing look and say, "They're the same, aren't they?" Hardly.
  10. ↑ Masters, Kim (October 6, 1990). "Art Gallery Not Guilty of Obscenity". Washington Post. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  11. ↑ Finke, Nikki (April 24, 2003). "King of Hollywood". LA Weekly . Retrieved September 16, 2021. For example, former Time top editor Walter Isaacson once complained that, immediately after hiring Kim Masters just because of her take-no-prisoners style, she had the gumption to phone him at home and rant about her company computer not working. Masters tells the Weekly: "I do remember making a fuss about it, but I don't remember that. [Vanity Fair's] Graydon Carter once said to me I was one of the lowest-maintenance reporters on his masthead."
  12. ↑ "Kim Masters". June 2, 2023.
  13. ↑ Masters, Kim (October 13, 2017). "Fighting 'the Gawker effect' in the wake of Weinstein". Columbia Journalism Review . Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  14. 1 2 3 Thompson, Anne (April 5, 2007). "That's a wrap for movie magazines". Variety. Retrieved September 16, 2021. In the 16 years since she left Premiere, muckraker Kim Masters signed deluxe contracts at Time, Vanity Fair and Esquire. But those magazines eventually lost their appetite for her barbed take on the inner workings of Hollywood. Keeping star handlers happy and chasing ad dollars were more important to Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter than upsetting powerful cronies in Hollywood. Masters finally found a safe harbor as National Public Radio's entertainment correspondent. And she has bent to current trends, too, launching a blog for Slate called Hollywoodland (a rubrick once used at Premiere).
  15. ↑ Kashino, Marisa M. (June 27, 2018). "Remember Lorena Bobbitt? The Definitive History of the Manassas Woman Who...?? 25 Years Later: A tabloid saga prompted a national conversation that still resonates". Washingtonian . Retrieved September 16, 2021. Carlos Sanchez, then a reporter for the Washington Post: "When there's an allegation of a sex crime, it's the practice of most papers that you don't name the victim. We learned almost immediately that both John and Lorena had hired publicists. When the editors heard that, they said, 'Okay, we're free to use her name.' I know that we really angered her [first] attorney. His vow at that moment was that the Post would never again get an interview. That's how Kim Masters ended up scooping her own paper." Kim Masters, journalist: "I was at the Washington Post, but I had just made a deal with Vanity Fair to do three stories a year. The theory was there wouldn't be a lot of conflict. But I did not anticipate that the first thing Vanity Fair would ask me to do was Lorena Bobbitt. "I think the Post was very squeamish about the subject matter, the nature of the crime. I went to my editor at the time. I said, 'Vanity Fair wants me to go for this Lorena Bobbitt story,' and he said, 'Okay.' "
  16. ↑ Kelly, Keith J. (April 3, 2001). "Brill's Bloodbath – Inside Mag to Shutter, up to 50 to be Axed". New York Post. Retrieved September 16, 2021. Hirschorn is expected to remain as editorial director of Inside.com. Yesterday, Hirschorn was en route to the Los Angeles office, where he was expected to cut Chris Petrikin and Kim Masters.
  17. ↑ Lyman, Rick (April 15, 2001). "Stumbling Toward A Theater Near You". The New York Times. Retrieved September 16, 2021. A few have talked in the past, particularly in an article last October by Kim Masters on Inside.com, still the most complete and fully sourced account of the tumult. But now, as the release actually looms, people have apparently decided to lie low.
  18. ↑ "Kim Masters".
  19. ↑ "Six New Members Join Peabody Board of Jurors". The Peabody Awards. September 14, 2016. Retrieved September 16, 2021. The Peabody Awards at the University of Georgia has appointed Marcy Carsey, Herman Gray, Kathy Im, Kim Masters, Mark McKinnon and John Seigenthaler to its Board of Jurors.
  20. ↑ Masters, Kim (August 17, 2017). "Amazon Investigated Studio Chief Roy Price Over Claim of Sexual Remarks". The Information. Retrieved September 16, 2021. Amazon.com investigated an allegation that the head of its TV and film studio, Roy Price, made unwanted sexual remarks to Isa Hackett, an important producer of one of its highest-profile shows, according to Ms. Hackett, other people with knowledge of the inquiry and communications viewed by The Information. Mr. Price allegedly made the remarks to Ms. Hackett, an executive producer of Amazon's streaming video series "The Man in the High Castle," in July 2015 after a day of promotional events for the show at Comic-Con in San Diego, the people say.
  21. ↑ Fuster, Jeremy (October 15, 2017). "Hollywood Reporter Editor Kim Masters Speaks Out on Struggle to Publish Roy Price Sex Harassment Story". TheWrap. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  22. ↑ Kenny, Glenn (January 30, 2019). "An early, unsuccessful, attempt at #MeToo in Hollywood". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved September 16, 2021. Twenty years ago, when I was a senior editor at Premiere magazine, I worked with reporter John Connolly on "Flirting With Disaster," an article about sexual abuse and harassment involving powerful executives at New Line Cinema. Its primary subjects were founder Robert Shaye and his partner Michael Lynne, who ran the company ...At the Hollywood Reporter, reporter-at-large Kim Masters, who broke the story on Amazon's Roy Price, remains vigilant.
  23. ↑ John Connolly. "Flirting With Disaster" Premiere magazine
  24. ↑ Masters, Kim (October 12, 2017). "Amazon Suspends Top Exec Roy Price in Wake of Harassment Claim". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  25. ↑ Masters, Kim (October 12, 2017). "Amazon TV Producer Goes Public With Harassment Claim Against Top Exec Roy Price (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  26. ↑ Eller, Claudia (March 17, 2000). "Author Finds Magic Wearing Off of Eisner's Kingdom". Los Angeles Times.
  27. ↑ Clinton, Paul (April 3, 2000). "New Michael Eisner biography paints dark picture". www.cnn.com.
  28. ↑ Daly, Steve (March 24, 2000). "The Keys to the Kingdom: How Micheal Eisner Lost His Grip". EW.com.
  29. ↑ "Hit and Run". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
  30. ↑ Masters, Kim (July 25, 2019). "A Final, Heartbreaking Note From My Vanity Fair Editor George Hodgman". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 16, 2021. When Nancy and I wrote a Premiere magazine article about the adventures of Jon Peters and Peter Guber at Columbia Pictures, we were thinking only of making a deadline. The piece had started out as a routine profile of two enterprising, shifty, credit-grabbing producers who were making a lot of bank with films from Batman to Rain Man. The assignment turned into something entirely different when Sony bought Columbia and reached the entirely unjustified conclusion that Guber and Peters should run the place. ...The two seemed intent only on squeezing their Japanese bosses for tens of millions and Hollywood was watching agog.
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