Hollywood Reporter hires Zeitchik as an editor

Steven Zeitchik

The Hollywood Reporter has hired Steven Zeitchik as senior awards editor.

A story on its website states, “In his new role, Zeitchik will edit THR’s Oscar and Emmy special issues and related weekly features. In this capacity, he will closely collaborate with Scott Feinberg, executive editor of awards, and Beatrice Verhoeven, deputy awards editor. Zeitchik will be based in Los Angeles and report to THR deputy editorial director Jeanie Pyun.

“Zeitchik has been covering media and entertainment for nearly two decades. He spent eight years reporting on Hollywood for The Los Angeles Times as well as conducting frequent foreign-reporting tours to hotspots such as Cairo and Ukraine. He was a staff writer for five and a half years at The Washington Post, where he covered the business of entertainment as well as AI, VR, crypto and all cutting-edge developments. His work often focuses on the intersection of entertainment and business, and he provides insightful analysis on how movies and TV impact broader cultural and economic trends.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.