Maureen Ryan

Maureen Ryan has covered the entertainment industry as a critic and reporter for three decades. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair, she has written for Entertainment Weekly, Salon, GQ, Vulture, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, and Chicago Tribune, among dozens of outlets, and was the chief television critic for Variety and the Huffington Post.  She has served on the jury of the Peabody Awards and won three Los Angeles Press Club Awards. She's the author of "Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood." She lives in Chicago, Illinois.