Sharon Waxman Biography
Sharon Waxman is an American novelist, journalist, and blogger who has worked as a correspondent for The Washington Post and The New York Times. In early 2009, she launched the Hollywood and media business news website TheWrap.
Sharon Waxman Age
Sharon was born in 1963 in the United States of America. She is 60 years old as of 2023.
Sharon Waxman Education
She earned a bachelor of arts in English literature from Barnard College in 1985. She then earned a master of philosophy in modern Middle Eastern studies from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, in 1987.
Sharon Waxman Family
She has not yet disclosed any information about her parents or whether she has siblings. Attempts to establish the identities of her family, her mother, and her father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether she has any siblings.
Sharon Waxman Career
From 1989 to 1995, Waxman worked as a foreign correspondent throughout Europe and the Middle East. During that time, she worked as a Jerusalem correspondent for Reuters and for a variety of American newspapers. She relocated to Los Angeles in 1995 to cover Hollywood for The Washington Post. Waxman received the University of Missouri’s feature writing award for arts and entertainment in 1998. The Washington Post nominated her for the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her reporting on the Second Palestinian Intifada. She got the Penney Award, the top honor in feature writing, in 2000. Waxman covered stories in the Middle East for The Washington Post between 2001 and 2003.
She began covering Hollywood for The New York Times in 2003. After being frequently attacked in his writing by gossip blogger Roger Friedman, she opined in 2004: “If he spent half as much time checking his facts as he did complaining about people stealing from him, there wouldn’t be so many errors in his reporting!” “Do they hold him to journalistic standards, or does he just get to slander people with impunity?” she said, alluding to Fox News, for whom he wrote as a freelancer. Waxman was nominated best online columnist at the National Entertainment Journalism Awards in 2012. The Society of Professional Journalists awarded her the Distinguished Journalist in New Media award the following year.
In early 2009, Waxman launched the Hollywood and media business news website TheWrap. According to CBS Market Watch, Waxman collected $500,000 for TheWrap news, an entertainment and media news service that opened on January 26, 2009. In 2010, a second round of funding was completed. By 2013, TheWrap.com has expanded to 30 staff. It also hosts TheGrill, an annual conference attended by executives in entertainment, media, and technology. She also founded WrapWomen, a network of powerful women in media and entertainment dedicated to advancing women’s leadership. WrapWomen hosts The Power Women Summit, the largest annual event for women and underrepresented groups in entertainment, which gathered 1 million streams over three days in 2021.
Sharon Waxman Author
In 2005, she released the New York Times best-seller “Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System.” Six directors are profiled in the book, including Quentin Tarantino and David O. Russell. Waxman’s second book, “Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World,” was published in 2008, and it investigates the global trade in antiquities as well as the campaign by source countries to recover antiquities held in Western museums.
Sharon Waxman Net Worth
Sharon has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.