Not-so-boffo biz at Variety and The Hollywood Reporter these days; Variety will soon start charging to access its website, while The Hollywood Reporter is ditching its print edition altogether. They’re bleeding cash. The fact that I learned all this at Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily is a good example why.
As someone sporadically employed in show business (and no, I’m not counting this), I’m going to miss picking up a three-month-old copy of The Hollywood Reporter while waiting for meetings to begin. Even though they are (soon to be “were”) published daily, no lobby area of any production company’s office ever has a current issue of either trade available. You have a choice between reading an issue of Variety profiling the showrunner of Andy Barker, P.I., an issue of The Hollywood Reporter with pics from the Kung Fu Panda premiere, or an issue of People about the Senator from Chicago with eyes on the White House.
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