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The first edition of The Hollywood Reporter hit newsstands on the 3rd of September 1930. It carried a front-page column titled Tradeviews that became the most feared and influential voice in the entertainment industry.
William R. Billy Wilkerson founded The Hollywood Reporter and treated journalism as a weapon to generate publicity. He used caustic articles and unfiltered gossip to create a culture of fear and fascination that defined the magazine for decades.
Tichi Wilkerson Kassel sold The Hollywood Reporter to BPI Communications for 26.7 million dollars on the 11th of April 1988. This transaction marked the end of the Wilkerson family era and the beginning of a corporate transformation.
Richard Beckman recruited Janice Min to reinvent The Hollywood Reporter as a glossy, large-format weekly magazine in 2010. The publication relaunched with a weekly print edition and a revamped website that enabled it to break news.
The Hollywood Reporter Roma was ordered into judicial liquidation on the 3rd of April 2025 and ceased to publish news in June 2025. The Italian edition faced a severe financial crisis where journalists and contributors were not paid for months.
The Hollywood Reporter has published an annual feature called Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot since 2013. The feature was first published in February 2013 as a single interview with an anonymous director.