Kim Masters is an entertainment journalist. She is an editor-at-large at ''

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''. She is also host of

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's weekly radio show "The Business."

Early life

Masters is an alumna of

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United ...

Career

Masters did not begin as a media reporter, she began her journalism career at ''Education Daily'', a newspaper in the Washington, D.C. area. Masters was a staff reporter for ''

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'', a correspondent for

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, and contributing editor for '' Vanity Fair'', ''

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'', and '' Esquire''. In 1991, Masters left

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. Masters later became an entertainment correspondent for

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. In 1993, Masters obtained, for her first assignment by Vanity Fair, the first interview with Lorena Bobbitt. In 2000, Masters quit ''

'' to work for Steve Brill's ''

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'' magazine (2000-2001). Between 2006 and 2008, Masters wrote articles for ''Hollywoodland'', a

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for

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. In 2016, she was appointed to the Peabody Board of Jurors. In 2017, Masters' article, on sexual harassment claims against

Roy Price Roy F. Price (born July 21, 1967) is a former Amazon.com executive who in 2017 resigned over sexual harassment claims. He worked for over 13 years at Amazon, founded Amazon Video and Amazon Studios; is a former Disney executive; and is a former ...

head of

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, was declined by

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, BuzzFeed News, and others, before being published in August by The Information. Later, in October 2017, The Hollywood Reporter published two articles by Masters which covered Price's subsequent suspension from Amazon Studios.

Books

Masters is the author of ''The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else''. ''

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'' gave the book a mixed review, calling it a "lacerating, 450-page takedown," but also writing that it contains "way too much inside baseball to anybody outside the New York-Los Angeles media axis." Masters and Nancy Griffin co-authored ''Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood''. ''

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'' called the book "a shocking read that will have readers gasping at the obscene overindulgence of Hollywood."

References

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