Benjamin Svetkey

As a writer and editor at Entertainment Weekly, Benjamin Svetkey spent two decades flying around the world visiting film sets and writing stories about movie stars. He served as the magazine’s LA bureau chief from 2004 to 2007, and as an editor at large until 2012. From 2013 to 2020, he was a senior editor at THR, then moved onto to become editorial director at Los Angeles Magazine from 2021-2023. Svetkey has also published stories in The New York Times magazine, Rolling Stone, and scores of other publications. He is author of the novel "Leading Man" and teaches at Chapman University’s film school.