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Sharon Waxman, CEO and Editor in Chief, is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author, a former Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times and a leading authority on the entertainment business and media. Before the Times, she was a correspondent for eight years for The Washington Post. She started out as a foreign correspondent, covering Europe and the Middle East for a decade. She is the founder and CEO of The Wrap, and the author of two books, including, “Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System.” She can be reached at sharon@thewrap.com.

Mark J. Davis, Chief Operating Officer, is a veteran of media organizations, both legacy and digital. He joins TheWrap from having run digital strategy at the San Diego Union-Tribune. He can be reached at mark@thewrap.com.

ADVERTISING

Caren Gibbens, Vice President, Entertainment Sales, comes to TheWrap from the Los Angeles Times where she was an Advertising Manager responsible for sales in the Live Entertainment and Media category.  She helped launch Culture Monster which grew revenues 100% year over year.  Before coming to the  Los Angeles Times Caren ran the West Coast sales office for Advertising Age. You'll find her at caren.gibbens@thewrap.com.

Nicole Winters, Director of Sales, comes to TheWrap from the Los Angeles Times where she recently was promoted to the film/television team after growing the live entertainment category, which included the launch of new digital products into marketplace.  She previously worked at Fox Sports Network in cable advertising. She is reachable at nicole.winters@thewrap.com.

EDITORIAL

Joseph Anthony Kapsch, Executive Editor, is the former Editor, THR.com at The Hollywood Reporter. Previously, he spent five years at Tribune Company, developing and growing their digital entertainment properties. As Los Angeles Times’ deputy entertainment editor for online, he helped lead LATimes.com's showbiz coverage to a robust readership on the web, and then was tasked with redesigning and relaunching Tribune's television news site Zap2It. He's also held key editorial positions at Access Hollywood, ABC/Disney Digital, NBC.com and Sony Pictures Digital. You can reach him at joseph.kapsch@thewrap.com or twitter: @josephkapsch.

Josh Dickey, Managing Editor, was most recently managing editor at TMZ.com and before that served as Film Editor at Daily Variety for two years. He was deputy editor at TheWrap throughout 2010 and before that spent much of his career at the Associated Press as writer and editor. Reach him at josh@thewrap.com.

Diane Garrett, Senior Editor, has written or edited for TV Guide, Movieline, Variety and the L.A.Times. She caught the digital bug early, and is never far from electronic gadgets. She can be reached at diane@thewrap.com.

FILM

Brent Lang, Senior Film Writer, joined TheWrap from the business desk of “The Patriot Ledger.” A graduate of Brown and Columbia universities, he has also worked at CBSNews.com and Forbes.com. He can be reached at brent@thewrap.com.

Lucas Shaw, Film Reporter, wrote for the Los Angeles Times, Daily Variety and GQ.com before joining TheWrap. He covers the intersection of film and media, with occasional tumbles into music, sports and technology. Food blogging may be next. He can be reached at lucas.shaw@thewrap.com.

Jeff Sneider, Film Reporter, previously held the same position at Variety, where he spent a total of five years working in various capacities. He started his career in 2003 by writing as “MiraJeff” for Ain't It Cool News and his work has also appeared in Hollywood Life, MTV Movies Blog, Washington Square News and the Colorado Springs Independent. Jeff has appeared in Michael Addis’ documentary “Heckler” and HBO's “Entourage,” and he also fought director Uwe Boll in a 2006 boxing match that has since become a footnote in pop culture history. He hates salad, loves “Pulp Fiction” and his bark is louder than his bite. Follow him on Twitter at @TheInSneider or email him at jeff@thewrap.com.

Jordan Zakarin, Film Reporter, is an entertainment journalist who has held positions at The Huffington Post, Hollywood Reporter, and BuzzFeed. His focus is on indie film, comedy, and anything weird. He is originally from New Jersey and attended Syracuse University, where he watched basketball, skipped class, watched re-runs of “M*A*S*H”… and majored in Television, Radio, and Film. A resident of New York City, he spends a lot of time in movie theaters and bodegas. Reach him via email jordan.zakarin@thewrap.com or Twitter @jordanzakarin

Alonso Duralde, Film Critic, has written about film for Movieline, Salon, MSNBC.com. He also co-hosts the Linoleum Knife podcast and regularly appears on What the Flick?! (The Young Turks Network). He is a senior Programmer for the Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles and a pre-screener for the Sundance Film Festival, as well as a consultant for the USA Film Festival/Dallas, where he spent five years as artistic director. A former arts and entertainment editor at the Advocate, he was a regular contributor to “The Rotten Tomatoes Show” on Current. He is the author of two books: “Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas” (Limelight Editions) and “101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men” (Advocate Books).

Steve Pond, Columnist and Awards Editor, joined TheWrap to lead its awards season coverage, and stayed on. His column is an informed, bemused, skeptical and authoritative look at all aspects of the Academy Awards race, from the campaigns to the halls of AMPAS to the movies that it's all supposed to be honoring. A former L.A. Times reporter, Pond is also author of the L.A. Times bestseller  The Big Show, and has been covering this particular circus for more than two decades, much of that time as the only reporter with full backstage and rehearsal access to the Oscar show. He can be reached at steve@thewrap.com

Todd Cunningham, News Editor/Box Office Reporter, is the former managing editor of the Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety. He served a term as president of the L.A. Newspaper Guild, and his play “The Good Hours” was staged in 2008. Todd can be reached at todd.cunningham@thewrap.com.

TELEVISION

Tim Molloy, TV Editor, is a former reporter and National Desk editor for The Associated Press, as well as the former managing editor of TVGuide.com. His first novel, “How to Break Bad News,” was published in 2008. You can find him at tim@thewrap.com or on Twitter: @TimAMolloy.

Jethro Nededog, Senior TV Writer, has covered television at The Hollywood Reporter, LA Times, Zap2it and Metromix. Previously, he wrote and produced documentary TV for National Geographic, History, Discovery, E! and the TV Guide Network. He has a BA in journalism from NYU and an MFA in writing from USC. His TV passions include trashy reality TV, soapy dramas, sci-fi and he would never turn away a “Cosby Show” rerun. He can be reached at jethro.nededog@thewrap.com or on Twitter: @therealjethro.

Tim Kenneally, TV Reporter, is a former editor for Celebuzz.com, Men's Edge and Hustler. Tim covers television for TheWrap. In his off time, he enjoys curling up with a mug of hot cocoa, his DVD box set of “Antiques Roadshow” and his pet tabby, Mr. Snugglesworth.  Tim can be reached at tim.kenneally@thewrap.com.

Tony Maglio, TV Reporter, comes to TheWrap via the Columbia J-School. Previously, Tony was a freelance entertainment, sports, joke and political writer. In another lifetime that he'd like to forget, Tony was an accounting/finance professional. He has the M.B.A. to prove it — but not the savings account balance. Reach Tony at Tony.Maglio@thewrap.com or on Twitter: @AnthonyMaglio.

L.A. Ross, Blogger/Reporter, recently earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in producing from UCLA, where she produced short films for James Franco and Academy Award winning screenwriter Bobby Moresco (“Crash”). L.A. originally hails from Washington, D.C., where she covered politics as a producer at Fox News. She now lives in the much more temperate climate of Los Angeles with her husband and furry four-legged son. Reach her at l.a.ross@thewrap.com or @newsielady

Greg Gilman, Blogger/Reporter, comes to TheWrap after two years of wandering through Hollywood as an uncredited celebrity gossip blogger (not that he particularly wanted the recognition). He's proud to put that part of his life behind him and looks forward to writing entertainment stories that don't decay the minds of his readers. He can be reached at Greg.Gilman@thewrap.com.

James Crugnale, Blogger/Reporter, is a former reporter/blogger for Mediaite, as well as the former editor of Mediabistro's Morning Media Newsfeed. He also also previously interned at Gawker, Grist and The Reykjavik Grapevine. Reach him at james.crugnale@thewrap.com or on Twitter: @jamescrugnale

Rebecca Rosenberg, Social Media Coordinator, joins TheWrap by way of Cleveland, Ohio. She began as an intern for TheWrap in the summer of 2012 and jumped at the opportunity to join the staff as Social Media Coordinator in January 2013. In addition to providing the occasional off-beat joke, she also provides the office dog, Gaston. She can be reached at rebecca.rosenberg@thewrap.com

THEWRAP CONTRIBUTORS 

Mikey Glazer, Parties Columnist, has been covering events since his kindergarten's Valentine's Day cookie party, graduating to the Hollywood party circuit. He has contributed from behind the velvet rope for TheInsider.com, US Weekly and  Southwestern Law School's entertainment law site. He created the popular live celebrity sightings feed, @CelebSightings. Please send invitations here.

Ira Teinowitz, Washington correspondent, is the former Washington Bureau Chief of Advertising Age and of Television Week and has covered a wide range of business, political and government issues  for newspapers, wire services, magazines and the web. He can be reached at ITeinowitz@gmail.com.

Pamela Chelin covers courts for TheWrap.

Andrew Gumbel is a Los Angeles-based journalist and writer and a longtime foreign correspondent for British newspapers, including 13 years with The Independent of London. He came to the United States in 1998 and has written extensively about politics, the criminal justice system, the entertainment industry and pop culture. He is the author of Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America (Nation Books, 2005).

American humor would not be the same without Peter Mehlman, a former co-executive producer of “Seinfeld” and leading television writer and producer. He served as a producer and writer through nearly all of the show's nine-year run on NBC. He also produced the 2004 series, “It's Like, You Know….”