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Ryan Faughnder.

Ryan Faughnder

Hollywood Inc. Senior Editor

Ryan Faughnder is a senior editor with the Los Angeles Times’ Hollywood Inc. team, which covers the business of entertainment. He also launched and writes the entertainment industry newsletter The Wide Shot. A San Diego native, he earned a master’s degree in journalism from USC and a bachelor’s in English from UC Santa Barbara. Before joining The Times in 2013, he wrote for the Los Angeles Business Journal and Bloomberg News. Faughnder was previously a film business reporter for Company Town. He covered such major stories as the Sony hack, the streaming wars and Bob Iger’s surprise return to the throne as Disney’s CEO in 2022. He also was part of the team that was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for coverage of the “Rust” set shooting.

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