Hillary Atkin
Website: www.atkinreport.com
Hillary Atkin has written extensively on media and entertainment for USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, TelevisionWeek, Entertainment Weekly, Daily Variety, The New York Observer and LA Confidential.
She is an award-winning journalist who began her career as a television news writer, reporter and producer at KOB-TV. As a broadcast producer at KCBS in Los Angeles, she won numerous Emmy, Associated Press and Golden Mike Awards for live coverage and entertainment special events programming, and then produced and directed biographies on Robert Duvall, Elizabeth Montgomery, Linda Darnell and Nicolas Cage for A&E and E!.
Ms. Atkin was an early adopter to digital media, as one of the founding committee members of the Writers Guild of America West’s website, where she wrote about the convergence of entertainment and technology. She was an active member of the guild’s committee on media and technology (CMAT) and two influential digital media organizations, LAwNMoweR (Los Angeles New Media Roundtable) and VIC (Venice Interactive Community).
She was a senior VP at Fandom, a dot-com 1.0 company that rose to prominence by spotlighting blockbuster genre entertainment properties including Batman, X-Men, Superman, Harry Potter and Star Wars.
She is the editor and publisher of The Atkin Report (www.atkinreport.com), a website and blog that began as a trend newsletter focusing on entertainment, events, hospitality, beauty, fashion, and other lifestyle topics growing out of her work at USA Today.
Ms. Atkin tweets @HillaryAtkin and @AtkinEntertain on Twitter.
Recent Stories by Hillary Atkin
The TV Academy Gets Real, With a Night of Honors That Don't Get Nearly as Much Attention as the Emmys -- but May Be Even More Important
Some called the recent White House Correspondents' Dinner a “nerd prom,’ and that term also came to mind -- in a completely endearing way -- at the 6th Annual Television Academy Honors, held May 9 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.Known......
MTV and Its Corporate Cousins Going Back to Their Musical Roots
More than three decades after its debut created a seismic shift in the pop culture landscape, it can be very easy to forget that MTV still stands for music television.That also makes it surprising to learn that 1,200 hours of......
'SNL' Guru Lorne Michaels Steps Out From Behind the Scenes -- and Spills Secrets From the Other Side of the Curtain
With the exception of his brief but fairly regular cameos on “Saturday Night Live,” executive producer Lorne Michaels is a man who prefers to work behind the scenes, someone who doesn’t normally seek the spotlight.But as one of the most......
Had Enough Movie Awards Yet? MTV Adds Its Coda to the Season -- Along With a Look at What's Ahead
Just when you thought movie awards season ended with the Oscars and kudo-attention shifted to the Emmys, along come the MTV Movie Awards to shower last year's films with golden popcorn trophies.The awards show, which aired live from Sony Pictures......
How Cable's Top Programmers Are Keeping Their Channels on Top
Amongst them, they have hits ranging from "Girls" to "Hatfields & McCoys," "Game of Thrones" to "Duck Dynasty," “Southland” to “Dallas” and lucrative reruns of comedies including "Seinfeld" and "The Office."The big topics of discussion as Nancy Dubuc, Michael Lombardo......
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