WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2005
Los Angeles Times
Robert J. Dowling, 66, has been running the daily trade newspaper for 17 years. The editor-in-chief and publisher has weathered accusations of blurring his dual roles as businessman and journalist.
Claire Hoffman notes Dowling once killed a proposed story on "The 100 Worst Movies of All Time" after reportedly getting complaints from studio advertisers. One editor says Dowling "took a publication that was second-rate and he leaves it first-rate." (Read the Hollywood Reporter's Dowling
story.)
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