Kim Masters is an American entertainment journalist. She is a partner in Puck News and host of

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's weekly radio show "The Business."

Early life

Masters is an alumna of

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Career

A native of Washington, D.C., Masters began her journalism career at ''Education Daily'', a newsletter in the Washington, D.C. area. Masters was a staff reporter for ''

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'', a correspondent for NPR, and a contributing editor for '' Vanity Fair'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. For her first Vanity Fair assignment in 1993, Masters landed the first interview with Lorena Bobbitt. In 2000, Masters quit ''

'' to work for ''

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'' magazine, founded by Kurt Andersen and Michael Hirschorn (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, head of

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, was declined by ''

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, and others, before being published in August by The Information. Later, in October 2017, The Hollywood Reporter published two articles by Masters which led to Price's exit 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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