Janice Min
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Janice Min is CEO and editor-in-chief of Ankler Media, the most incisive and trusted voice covering the entertainment industry, speaking clearly and with depth on all sides of the conversation with top-of-class analysis and reporting. The Ankler has been called "a buzzy newsletter that circulates through Hollywood C suites" by the New York Times, and a "hit Hollywood newsletter." Accepted into Silicon Valley's competitive Y Combinator, The Ankler raised money in 2022 at a valuation of $20 million.
Previously, Min was the longtime co-president of the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Entertainment Group, where she engineered a publishing rebirth of The Hollywood Reporter hailed as a “stunning transformation” by the New York Times. Prior to that, as editor-in-chief of Us Weekly, she was cited as having transformed modern celebrity culture.
An Emmy winner, Min has also been Adweek’s Editor of the Year and received AdAge’s Magazine of the Year honors, and has been profiled by the New York Times, NPR, and The Guardian. In 2023, Min was named one of Ad Age’s Leading Women and one of CNN’s 11 Most Consequential Media and Technology Figures of the year.
She was honored with her alma mater Columbia Journalism School’s Alumni Award, the Columbia University Asian-American Alumni Award, and recognized with the University of Missouri’s Honor Medal for distinguished service in journalism. A Matrix Award winner, she has also won two National Magazine Awards for General Excellence and has been nominated five times.
Min currently sits on the boards of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, UCLA hospital; the American Society of Magazine Editors and the UCLA Institute of Environmental Sciences. She resides in Los Angeles with her husband, a fellow graduate of Columbia College, and their three children.
Previously, Min was the longtime co-president of the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Entertainment Group, where she engineered a publishing rebirth of The Hollywood Reporter hailed as a “stunning transformation” by the New York Times. Prior to that, as editor-in-chief of Us Weekly, she was cited as having transformed modern celebrity culture.
An Emmy winner, Min has also been Adweek’s Editor of the Year and received AdAge’s Magazine of the Year honors, and has been profiled by the New York Times, NPR, and The Guardian. In 2023, Min was named one of Ad Age’s Leading Women and one of CNN’s 11 Most Consequential Media and Technology Figures of the year.
She was honored with her alma mater Columbia Journalism School’s Alumni Award, the Columbia University Asian-American Alumni Award, and recognized with the University of Missouri’s Honor Medal for distinguished service in journalism. A Matrix Award winner, she has also won two National Magazine Awards for General Excellence and has been nominated five times.
Min currently sits on the boards of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, UCLA hospital; the American Society of Magazine Editors and the UCLA Institute of Environmental Sciences. She resides in Los Angeles with her husband, a fellow graduate of Columbia College, and their three children.