Michael Cieply (born 1951) is an entertainment industry writer, first for ''

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

'' and then for ''Talk'' magazine and as a media correspondent for ''

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''. Here he covers Hollywood for the media desk. He joined ''The New York Times'' in 2004, as a movie editor. For eight and a half years in the 1990s, he worked as a film producer for

Sony , commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professiona ...

, where he was producing or trying to produce movies and TV programs. While there, Cieply would consult with Ray Stark Productions. He was a production executive for a number of companies, including ABC,

Columbia Pictures Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production studio that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the mu ...

Disney The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...

, Fox, Universal, and

United Airlines United Airlines, Inc. (commonly referred to as United), is a major American airline headquartered at the Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois.

. Cieply also was an editor and reporter for the ''

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'', where he covered entertainment and media for the business section and for various publications such as ''

Forbes ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also r ...

'' magazine and ''

''. He was a staff editor in the Culture section of ''

''. Cieply was the West Coast editor of Inside.com, a website covering the media and entertainment industries. He has covered entertainment for over 17 years. He moved to

Deadline Hollywood ''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. The site is updated several times a day, wit ...

in 2016.

Book

*''The Hearsts: Family and Empire'' with

Lindsay Chaney Lindsay Chaney (born in 1951) is a senior news editor at ''Variety''. He joined ''Variety'' in 1999. Previously he was a business editor and writer at the ''Long Beach Press-Telegram'', covering the aerospace industry and finance. He has written fo ...

(1981 Simon & Schuster)

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