July 31, 2013 – The 2013 Young Hollywood Awards, which celebrates the best emerging young talent in film, music and television, has announced additional honorees for the star-studded red carpet award show including Lauren Conrad (Designer of XO(eco) for Blue Avocado – line of sustainable bags), Syfy’s television movie, Sharknado, (accepted by Tara Reid and Ian Ziering) and MTV’s hit show, Teen Wolf (accepted by Tyler Posey, Daniel Sharman, Crystal Reed, Tyler Hoechlin, Max and Charlie Carver) as well as GRAMMY® Award-winning R&B star, Miguel, who will also perform on the telecast.
READ MORE »July 26, 2013 – The 2013 Young Hollywood Awards, which celebrates the best emerging young talent in film, music and television, has announced additional honorees for the star-studded red carpet award show including Dave Franco (Now You See Me), recording artist and actress Selena Gomez and Bella Thorne (“Shake It Up”) as well as rising singer-songwriter Austin Mahone and pop sensation Cody Simpson who will also perform on the telecast.
READ MORE »July 22, 2013 – Michael Levitt has been tapped as Executive Producer of the 2013 Young Hollywood Awards. The star-studded red carpet award show, which celebrates the best emerging young talent in film, music and television, will be broadcast for the first time on The CW Network on Thursday, August 1st (8:00-10:00p.m. ET/PT) from The Broad Stage in Santa Monica, CA. The announcement was made today by Jay Penske, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Penske Media Corporation (PMC) and owner and Executive Producer of the award show.
READ MORE »July 2, 2013 – The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® and Penske Media Corporation (PMC), a leading digital media and publishing company, today announced a formal partnership to bring PMC’s Breakthrough Awards to the 2014 International CES, to take place at the Las Vegas Hotel (LVH) Theater on Thursday, January, 9, 2014. Owned and produced by CEA, the 2014 International CES, the world’s leading innovation event attracting over 150,000 attendees and over 3,000 exhibitors annually, will be held January 7-10, 2014 in Las Vegas.
READ MORE »June 18, 2013 – Univision News, the award-winning news division of Univision Communications, Inc, the leading media company serving Hispanic America, and Penske Media Corporation (PMC), parent company of Variety, the world’s premier source of entertainment news, have joined forces to create a co-branded multiplatform entertainment segment for Univision Network’s “Primer Impacto” (First Impact), one of the highest rated newsmagazine shows in the United States and several Latin American countries.
READ MORE »June 18, 2013 – Penske Media Corporation’s Jay Penske and Deadline's Nikki Finke and Nellie Andreeva today announced the hiring of LISA DE MORAES, the hugely respected and popular Washington Post journalist who wrote the well sourced and widely read 'The TV Column' several times a week. Effective immediately, de Moraes becomes Deadline.com’s TV Columnist, covering the business of TV with her deep sources and outstanding knowledge and unusual fearlessness.
READ MORE »May 8, 2013 – As it celebrates its 15th Year, The Young Hollywood Awards, long regarded as the “Oscars of Young Hollywood,” will partner with The CW Network to broadcast this year’s star-studded red-carpet event on Thursday, August 1 (8:00-10:00p.m. ET/PT). The announement was made today by Jay Penske, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Penske Media Corporation (PMC), owner and Executive Producer of the award show, and Mark Pedowitz, President, The CW.
READ MORE »May 3, 2013 – Today, Jay Penske—Founder, Chairman and CEO of Penske Media Corporation (PMC), which owns the Movieline brand—announced website Movieline.com’s reinvention: a bold launch into the online video space. Penske said, “We’re seeing the growing demand for online video and the appetite advertisers have to reach these focused audiences. Over the last year, we’ve had incredible success with our multi-platform video entertainment news network Entertainment News Television (ENTV) and are eager to expand our reach in the field.”
READ MORE »April 8, 2013 – Award-winning business and technology journalist Todd Spangler is joining Variety as the New York digital editor, covering digital media with particular emphasis on the intersection of technology and television.
READ MORE »March 18, 2013 – Variety has promoted Steven Gaydos to vice president and executive editor, giving him expanded duties overseeing all editorial for features, events, creative partnerships, custom publishing and other special projects.
READ MORE »March 1, 2013 – Variety.com has officially launched, providing free access to all of its content. The site will focus on breaking news and in-depth analysis, and in the coming months, a growing emphasis on video content and interactive user experience.
READ MORE »Febrary 27, 2013 – Veteran business journalist Brian Steinberg has joined Variety as senior television editor. The New York-based Steinberg will cover all aspects of the television business as well as other media.
READ MORE »Febrary 12, 2013 – Jay Penske, chairman and CEO of Penske Media Corporation, and Michelle Sobrino, newly installed publisher of Variety, today named Claudia Eller, Cynthia Littleton and Andrew Wallenstein as the new editors-in-chief of Variety, in addition to overseeing coverage of film, television and digital content, respectively. Tim Gray, who has been with Variety for 31 years, most recently as editor-in-chief, remains in a leadership role, overseeing expansion of international coverage and other special projects.
READ MORE »Multi-Year Deal between Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences and PMC to Co-Produce Annual D.I.C.E. Summit and Awards Show, Distribute Exclusive Content throughout the Year; Machinima to Live Stream 2013 Awards Show.
READ MORE »Jonathan Geller—President and General Manager of BGR Media, Inc. and Editor-in-chief of the BGR website—launched a new look for what is today’s biggest mobile news destination in the world.
READ MORE »Penske Media Corporation (“PMC”), a leading digital media and publishing company, announced today it had purchased Variety from Reed Business Information, part of Reed Elsevier.
READ MORE »According to WWD, Frank DiGiacomo, a New York Daily News’ gossip columnist, is leaving the paper for a spot at Movieline, where he’ll be head of editorial operations.
READ MORE »When Katie Holmes blindsided Tom Cruise with divorce papers at the end of June, jaws dropped and young women scurried to get the details on the news as quickly as possible. For most young women, that meant turning to their digital devices to instantly find out what was going on and why. But what most young women ages 18-34—the millennial generation—didn't do was turn to any of the traditional women's sites, such as Glamour.com, Cosmopolitan.com, MarieClaire.com, Elle.com, etc. Even though young women's magazines had owned the hearts and minds of their audiences on the newsstand for decades, anticipating and responding to their every need, they have not established themselves as daily indispensable online destinations for their readers. The question is why?
READ MORE »In an unprecedented partnership between the leading brands in style, media and events, Penske Media Corp. (PMC), Style Media and IMG Fashion announced today the 9th Annual Style Awards will be held at Lincoln Center during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on September 5, and, for the first time ever, will be broadcast in primetime on Style, the fastest growing women's cable network, on Thursday, September 13 at 8pm ET/PT. READ MORE »
Los Angeles, August 24, 2011—PMC, the digital media company owned by entrepreneur Jay Penske, whose properties include Nikki Finke's Deadline, is making a push into entertainment TV by teaming up with ION Television to produce short news segments on Hollywood.
The new service, called ENTV, which stands for Entertainment News Television, is moving into a crowded space occupied by such shows as Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight and TMZ, the syndicated gossip and entertainment companion to TMZ.com. READ MORE »
Los Angeles, July 19, 2011—Nikki Finke's Deadline.com, Paramount Digital Entertainment, and Liquid Entertainment announce the upcoming release of the 'Deadline Hollywood Game' on Facebook this summer. True to Deadline.com's mission to report on the inner workings of the entertainment business, this new Facebook game allows players to experience what it really takes to make it in Hollywood. The 'Deadline Hollywood Game' is designed for wannabes and showbiz moguls. It also becomes the first game of its kind to incorporate real-time breaking news that influences gameplay.
Just like the internationally known website filled with entertainment news and rare candor on which it is based, the 'Deadline Hollywood Game' introduces the real Hollywood where power, relationships, and influence are as important as money (and sometimes more so). The game employs the same mixture of street smarts and dumb luck to make it in The Industry by allowing players to choose one of several career paths – actor, screenwriter, producer, director, agent, studio executive – leading to success or ruin. READ MORE »
Los Angeles, Jun 30, 2011—Jay Penske’s Mail.com Media Corp is simplifying things a bit by rebranding as PMC and promoting Chief Revenue Officer Aly Racer to the role of president. Also, CFO George Grobar will now add the COO post to his duties, while Will Lee will take on the role of VP, strategy and planning for PMC as he continues as GM of Bonnie Fuller’s HollywoodLife site.
The move to rebrand comes several months after Penske—the “P” in PMC—sold its Mail.com e-mail business to German internet firm United Internet Group. READ MORE »
Los Angeles, Jun 27, 2011—I'm very pleased to announced that my pal Nic Paul who sells advertising for Deadline and other Penske Media Corp sites has been promoted to Vice President of Entertainment Sales for our parent company. Since joining PMC from Variety where he oversaw digital sales until right around the time that Jay Penske bought my Deadline Hollywood, Nic had been a Sales Director for 2 years. Best of all, I can attest to the fact that Nic understands and respects the wall I've erected between editorial content and advertising sales READ MORE »
Los Angeles, March 28, 2011—Penske Media Corporation (formerly Mail.com Media Corporation) today announced the hiring of David Lieberman as Executive Editor of Deadline.com effective April 11th. The 17-year USA Today veteran who is Senior Media Reporter and runs the USA Today CEO Forum will be based in PMC's New York office to cover a wide array of issues including Big Media corporate finance and technological convergence as part of a major expansion of Deadline’s journalism about the media and entertainment business. Lieberman will report to Deadline.com General Manager, Founder, and Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke on editorial matters and to PMC Founder and Chief Executive Jay Penske on strategic initiatives. READ MORE »
Los Angeles, January 4, 2010-- Entertainment news reporter Matt Webb Mitovich is the first major hire to join Michael Ausiello in launching a new consumer TV focused property with media and publishing company PMC. Founded by its Chairman & CEO, Jay Penske, PMC owns entertainment properties Deadline.com led by Nikki Finke, HollywoodLife.com led by Bonnie Fuller, and Movieline.com led by Charles Runnette. The new consumer TV website will debut in January 2011. READ MORE »
Los Angeles, December 10, 2010-- Entertainment Weekly staff writer Michael Slezak, whose engaging, witty and incisive coverage of such wildly popular TV shows as American Idol and Modern Family make him a must-read for reality junkies and television addicts alike, is joining Editor-in-Chief and Founder Michael Ausiello and Editor-at-Large Matt Webb Mitovich as a Senior Editor at TVLine.com, the new consumer TV-focused property from media and publishing company PMC. A premiere news destination that will offer exceptional and judicious coverage of television's most talked about programs, TVLine set to launch in early January. Additionally, E! Online veteran Megan Masters is joining TVLine as West Coast Editor. READ MORE »
Los Angeles, December 9, 2010-- PMC, the media and publishing company founded by Chairman & CEO Jay Penske announced today TVLine as the name of its new consumer TV focused property launching in early January 2011. Michael Ausiello is Editor-In-Chief and Founder of the new website, with Matt Webb Mitovich serving as Editor-At-Large. PMC also owns the entertainment properties Deadline.com led by Nikki Finke, HollywoodLife.com led by Bonnie Fuller, and Movieline.com led by Charles Runnette. PMC also announced that HBO is on board as the exclusive advertiser for the first two weeks of TVLine's much anticipated launch. READ MORE »
Los Angeles, October 19, 2010-- PMC today announced the appointment of a new member of its executive management team, by naming Alyson Racer to the newly created position of Chief Revenue Officer, effective November 1st, 2010.
Racer will be responsible for the development and execution of all advertising sales and other revenue for PMC’s entire portfolio of properties, including Deadline.com, BGR.com, HollywoodLife.com, Movieline.com, OnCars.com, Hollybaby.com, TV, and also PMC event properties such as the Young Hollywood Awards, The Style Awards, and Breakthrough of the Year Awards. She will report to PMC’s Founder, Chairman & CEO Jay Penske.
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Los Angeles, October 4, 2010--In a move that strategically aligns two of the entertainment industry’s most influential emerging brands, Michael Ausiello will be leaving Entertainment Weekly and EW.com to launch a new consumer TV focused property with media and publishing company PMC. Founded by its Chairman & CEO, Jay Penske, PMC owns entertainment properties Deadline.com led by Nikki Finke, HollywoodLife.com led by Bonnie Fuller, and Movieline.com led by Charles Runnette. The yet-to-be-named website will debut in January 2011, and top reporters will be added to complement Ausiello in PMC’s and Ausiello’s quest to build the finest TV site in the world. READ MORE »
LOS ANGELES, CA. September 20th, 2010 - PMC, the leading publisher and digital media company that owns content properties such as OnCars.com, Deadline.com, HollywoodLife.com, Movieline.com, BGR.com, YHAwards.com, HollyBaby.com, Fan.com, India.com and others, today announced a strategic transaction related to its Mail.com asset with Europe’s largest Internet company, United Internet Group. The Germany based United Internet, a multi-billion dollar publicly listed communications leader, plans to leverage their pioneering e-mail subsidiary GMX to continue the success that Mail.com experienced under the PMC umbrella, while dramatically building the e-mail service internationally. READ MORE »
New York, September 8, 2010—Bonnie Fuller, President and Editor-in-Chief of HollywoodLife.com, today announced the launch of www.HollyBaby.com, a new concept in parenting sites that focuses on celebrity moms, kids and babies, while offering pregnancy advice and parenting tips.
Kid-sister of the successful celebrity news, gossip and lifestyle site www.HollywoodLife.com, HollyBaby understands that women look at celebrity parents and their children for inspiration on everything from wardrobe and hairstyle choices to examples of parenting styles. As a working mother of four, Bonnie Fuller draws on her own unique perspective, combining personal experience as a mom with her innate skill in understanding celebrity culture and how it fascinates and relates to women. READ MORE »
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LOS ANGELES - September 1, 2010: Deadline.com is expanding its film and television awards coverage for the
2010-2011 season and beyond. Mail.com Media Corporation’s Jay Penske and Deadline.com’s Nikki Finke today announced
the hiring of Pete Hammond, the well-known Los Angeles Times/The Envelope's “Notes On A Season” blog columnist and
former Variety contributor who is widely considered the preeminent awards season commentator for film and
television. Effective immediately, he becomes the Deadline.com Awards Columnist. His breaking news and analysis
will also be offered on Movieline.com to reach a consumer audience as well as Deadline's industry readership.
Hammond also will be contributing original columns to Deadline|Hollywood's's five planned print newsletters during
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Los Angeles, August 3, 2010 -- In a major move that underscores its success and commitment
to entertainment, Mail.com Media Corporation has named Lynne Segall to the newly created
position of Vice President/Publisher, PMC Entertainment effective August 9th. Segall joins
PMC from the Los Angeles Times where she also served as Vice President.
Segall will be responsible for the development and execution of advertising sales and
business development strategies for PMC’s entertainment portfolio including Deadline.com,
HollywoodLife.com, Movieline.com, and events such as the Young Hollywood Awards, Style Awards,
and Breakthrough Of The Year Awards. She will report to PMC’s Chairman & CEO Jay Penske.
During her four years at the Los Angeles Times, Segall reinvigorated advertising in the
Calendar section. Under her leadership, the entertainment sales team developed new,
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LOS ANGELES – April 27, 2010 – Mail.com Media Corporation, (PMC), the digital media
company that owns and operates the Mail.com portal and email service as well as a growing
portfolio of lifestyle brands including, Deadline.com, HollywoodLife.com, Movieline.com and
OnCars.com, announced today its acquisition of BGR.com, one of the top mobile/gadget
sites in the world. PMC also begins a long-term, multi-year partnership with Jonathan
Geller, the highly respected founder known as Boy Genius from Boy Genius Report.
Launched in October 2006, BGR.com has grown quickly to become one of the top three sites
in the mobile category. Demonstrating its appeal to a broad audience that extends beyond
mobile, Technorati also lists BGR.com as one of the Top 50 most influential content
destinations in the world, across all categories.
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NEW YORK – April 13, 2010 – Movieline.com, the fastest growing film, TV and entertainment
site on the web, has appointed one of the top film critics in America, Stephanie Zacharek,
to its lineup of award-winning writers and editors.
As a member of the elite group of New York Film Critics Circle and The National Society of
Film Critics, Zacharek is one of the most successful and experienced practitioners in the
business, and a big name in the industry. For the past ten years, she has been a senior
writer and film critic for Salon.com. She writes for The New York Times, the Los Angeles
Times, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, New York magazine and Sight and Sound. Her work
was featured in the 2006 "American Movie Critics," edited by Philip Lopate, and she was a
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LOS ANGELES – March 29, 2010 – Deadline.com is now covering the television industry full-time.
Mail.com Media Corporation (PMC)’s Jay Penske and Deadline.com’s Nikki Finke today announced
the hiring of Nellie Andreeva, The Hollywood Reporter TV Editor who is one of the beat's
most preeminent and prolific journalists. In the next two weeks, Andreeva will become the
TV Editor of Deadline.com, and will lead TV coverage for all Deadline.com verticals.
Andreeva plans to continue delivering high-profile scoops and on-the-spot analysis about
the small screen's new programs, pilot development, cast changes, business deals and industry
trends that will further make Deadline.com the "must read" for influencers and leaders in
global entertainment and media.
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LOS ANGELES – January 10, 2010 -- Mail.com Media Corporation (PMC)’s Jay Penske and Deadline.com’s Nikki Finke today announced the hiring of Tim Adler, a veteran UK entertainment business journalist, as the editor of the new Deadline|London which will go live later this month at Deadline.com.
Previously, Adler was the editor of Screen Finance, the biweekly trade magazine covering film and television funding launched by the Financial Times Group in 1988 and then purchased by Informa in 2000. His distinguished background also includes authoring two non-fiction books about the film industry, and giving evidence to the most recent Parliamentary investigation into the British film industry. He was recently recalled to testify before the House of Lords’ communications committee.
With Adler’s hiring Deadline.com enters its next phase of editorial and geographic expansion, with future plans including the hiring of a senior enter READ MORE »
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LOS ANGELES – January 11, 2010 – Deadline.com is going bicoastal. Mail.com Media Corporation (PMC)’s Jay Penske and Deadline.com’s Nikki Finke today announced the hiring of , the 20-year Variety superstar who has been praised as the "top media dog" covering Hollywood because of his wide and deep network of entertainment business sources. Effective immediately, he becomes the Editor of the new Deadline|NewYork which will go live later this
month at Deadline.com.
Besides covering film and television dealmaking and production and casting, Fleming intends to expand his turf by breaking news and offering analysis about books, media, TV news, theater, and other Gotham-based infotainment arenas.
With the hiring of top journalism talents-- to run Deadline|New York, and Tim Adler to run Deadline|London, Deadline.com now enters its next phase of editorial and geogra READ MORE »