Jul 1, 2011 5:00 AM
Hollywood upstart TheWrap.com is getting a leading role with Reuters (NYSE: TRI). The wire service and the startup founded by Sharon Waxman in 2009 are expanding their relationship, with TheWrap replacing The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard as Reuters’ lead provider of entertainment news effective today. One result is a serious…
Posted In: Entertainment, Movies, Music, Media & Publishing, TV, Companies, Microsoft, MSNBC, Reuters, Starbucks, sharon waxman, thewrap
Feb 23, 2011 10:40 PM
Updated with response from TheWrap editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman. A year ago, Sharon Waxman, editor-in-chief of TheWrap.com, sent a letter to the CEO of Newser accusing him of not playing fair in the digital news environment, by copying the meat of TheWrap’s stories without giving appropriate credit. Now, Waxman is on…
Posted In: Legal, Copyright, deadline hollywood, hot news, mail.com media, thewrap
Jan 18, 2011 3:00 PM
Hollywood business-focused news site TheWrap has made a small acquisition, buying up ItsOnTheGrid, a site which features searchable listings of film projects in active development in Hollywood, along with open writing assignments. The site charges users between $14.99 and $27.99 a month to access the information.
Posted In: Entertainment, Movies, Media & Publishing, Online News, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, itsonthegrid, thewrap
Apr 25, 2010 11:59 PM
TheWrap.com, the Hollywood business focused blog started by former NYT Hollywood correspondent Sharon Waxman, has closed a $2 million second round of funding, she tells us. The round was led by Maveron, the VC firm co-founded by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and other first round investors. The site raised $500K…
Posted In: Entertainment, Features, Exclusive, Media & Publishing, Online News, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, maveron, sharon waxman, thewrap
Apr 8, 2010 4:16 PM
Newser CEO Patrick Spain fires back at Sharon Waxman and TheWrap.com in a formal response to Thursday’s cease-and-desist letter. Spain contends the whole situation could have been resolved through a “civil conversation” with Newser’s editor in chief (Caroline Miller, unidentified in the letter), saying it’s “not a legal controversy but…
Posted In: Legal, Media & Publishing, newser, patrick spain, sharon waxman, thewrap
Apr 7, 2010 7:54 PM
Updated: Newser’s Michael Wolff’s response below. There’s the legal language of a formal cease and desist letter like the one TheWrap.com just sent Newser LLC CEO Patrick Spain demanding an immediate stop to the controversial news aggregator’s use of the Hollywood news site’s work. (Full text embedded below.) And there’s…
Posted In: Legal, Media & Publishing, Online News, michael wolff, newser, patrick spain, sharon waxman, thewrap
Jan 26, 2009 1:27 PM
TheWrap.com, the entertainment news site founded by former NYT Hollywood correspondent Sharon Waxman, is now live. The launch is backed by an undisclosed amount of funding from Seattle-based Maveron; Waxman picked up $500,000 in seed funding last August from private investors. The site aims to take on established publications like…
Posted In: Entertainment, Movies, Media & Publishing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, BBC, sharon waxman, thewrap
Aug 11, 2008 11:11 AM
The Wrap News, a not-yet-launched news site covering the Hollywood trade, has received $500K in seed funding, from undisclosed investors. The news site is slated to only launch in Jan 2009, but seems strange in these days to wait so long for a blog-format based news site…after all the founder…
Posted In: Entertainment, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, thewrap
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