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Reporters

Meet the correspondents covering studios, policy, culture, sports and everything in between. Open a profile’s coverage list to follow their current SHOWBIZ work.

Mary Hartless

Mary Hartless

Senior Entertainment Correspondent

A longtime entertainment-news personality who first appeared on Entertainment Tomorrow! covering celebrity stories before becoming a recurring entertainment reporter across Animaniacs. Hartless brings decades of red carpets, industry gossip and show-business institutional memory to SHOWBIZ’s biggest career, awards and legacy stories.

Current coverage · 7 stories
Walter Finchell

Walter Finchell

Senior Business & Investigations Correspondent

One of Toon journalism’s earliest broadcast personalities, Finchell began reporting in the late 1930s and built a reputation on rapid-fire scoops and an instinct for stories other reporters missed. At SHOWBIZ, that old nose for news has evolved into a fixation on studio money, corporate maneuvering and the paperwork behind the spectacle.

Current coverage · 8 stories
April O’Neil

April O’Neil

Politics & Policy Correspondent

A veteran New York reporter who spent years chasing stories for Channel 6 News before going freelance late in her television career. Known for pursuing dangerous leads herself, challenging her bosses and refusing to let rival reporter Vernon Fenwick beat her to a scoop, O’Neil now brings those field-reporting instincts to campaigns, regulation and entertainment policy.

Current coverage · 3 stories
Diane Nguyen

Diane Nguyen

Culture & Features Correspondent

A writer, biographer and former ghostwriter whose career has ranged from BoJack Horseman’s memoir and celebrity social media to investigative work for Girl Croosh and television production. After eventually finding success writing the Ivy Tran, Food Court Detective books, Nguyen brings SHOWBIZ a skeptical, deeply personal perspective on celebrity, identity, media and the stories people tell about themselves.

Current coverage · 6 stories
Jay Sherman

Jay Sherman

Chief Film Critic & Columnist

The former host of New York cable review show Coming Attractions, Sherman built his reputation on encyclopedic movie knowledge, a weakness for classic and foreign cinema, and spectacular impatience with bad filmmaking. Beneath the sarcasm and the famous “It stinks!” verdict is a critic who takes movies seriously precisely because he genuinely loves them.

Current coverage · 4 stories

Dan Anchorman

Television & Broadcast Correspondent

A veteran television newsman first seen behind the anchor desk in Animaniacs, where his polished on-air authority was matched by a famously enormous ego and combustible temper; he later resurfaced covering presidential politics on Pinky and the Brain. SHOWBIZ now deploys that lifetime of live-broadcast experience on television, late night and stories that are still changing while they’re being reported.

Current coverage · 1 story
Babs Bunny

Babs Bunny

Sports & Athletics Correspondent

An Acme Looniversity alum whose student career included reviving the school newspaper with Sweetie Bird and taking the lead on its editorial direction. A natural interviewer, improviser and Toon-world insider, Babs now brings that reporting background — along with firsthand knowledge of animated competition — to SHOWBIZ’s coverage of players, ownership, rivalries and professional Toon sports.

Current coverage · 1 story