MOVIE CAREER PERSPECTIVES INDUSTRY SPEAKER

Robert J. Dowling

Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, The Hollywood Reporter
President, VNU Film & Performing Arts Group

Robert Dowling is the innovative and visionary Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of The Hollywood Reporter, the entertainment industry's premier daily trade publication celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. He also serves as executive vice president of VNU, the world's largest network of entertainment-related publications and services, which includes Billboard, Musician, Music and Media, Adweek, Amusement Business, BackStage West, The Entertainment News Wire and Broad-cast Data Systems.

He is widely recognized as the leading voice and authority on Hollywood's real-time-business, deal-making, trends and financing in film, television, recording, video and cutting-edge technology here and abroad. Insiders and industry leaders alike consider Bob Dowling the most reliable, informed and knowledgeable executive in Hollywood. He has an enviable reputation for straight talk, providing accurate, cogent and unbiased reporting of the issues and activities in Hollywood, New York, Washington, D.C., and in film capitals around the world.

When BPI Communications (now VNU Business Media) purchased The Hollywood Reporter in 1988 and placed Mr. Dowling at the helm, he began the process of transforming a small, family-owned publication into a highly respected international newspaper. Under Mr. Dowling's leadership, The Hollywood Reporter has achieved steady and profitable growth, dramatically expanded its coverage of a now-global $100 billion entertainment industry and vaulted to leadership as the number one entertainment daily, read by more than 140,000 industry professionals worldwide.

The recipient of many honors over the years, Mr. Dowling became the first publisher ever to re-ceive the Foundation of Motion Picture Pioneers' prestigious Pioneer of the Year award in 2000. He has also earned the respected American Business Media's Crain Award for his distinguished editorial career, the Caucus for Television Producers, Writers & Directors' Journalism Award, and most recently, the Anti-Defamation League's Distinguished Entertainment Industry Award.

Mr. Dowling is Chairman of the Digital Coast Roundtable and sits on the boards of the Los Angeles Board of Governors for the Museum of Television and Radio, the Hollywood Radio and Television Society (HRTS), the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission, Hollywood Post Alliance and the Fielding Graduate Institute.

He has lectured at Columbia, Loyola, NYU and UCLA and has been a principal speaker and moderator at domestic and international markets and film festivals, including Cannes Film Festival, MIPCOM, Motion Picture and Television Academies, Museum of Television & Radio, Digital Coast Roundtable. He has appeared at a number of Congressional hearings discussing the entertainment, broadcasting and communications industries, and also briefed members of the White House Cabinet on entertainment industry interest and support for the Office of National Drug Control Policy.