DEAN, DODGE COLLEGE OF FILM AND MEDIA ART, CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
WHY: Former executive editor of the Hollywood Reporter now oversees fourth-ranked film school in the country.
IN THE NEWS: Helped arranged keynote speakers Angela Bassett and Sherry Lansing to speak at May commencement.
QUOTABLE: “We’re amid one of those upheavals that hit the entertainment business every few decades. Streaming has allowed audiences to access pretty much any content they want, whenever they like, here and around the world. It’s causing the death of broadcast TV as we knew it, and quite probably cable, too. Then there’s AI, which, unlike streaming, isn’t just a distribution model but a whole new means of creation, posing an existential threat to the writers and actors who see themselves being supplanted by computers.
