About

The Atkin Report™ examines lifestyle and entertainment topics for people passionate about pop culture, hot places to patronize, events, great products, fashion, arts and entertainment, travel and dining–and welcomes their input.

The Atkin Report™ is published by award-winning entertainment and lifestyle expert Hillary Atkin. Her credentials include producing A&E Biographies on Nicolas Cage, Elizabeth Montgomery and Robert Duvall, writing and producing television newscasts at CBS in Los Angeles and authoring more than 250 articles published in USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times, New York Observer, People, Emmy Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Premiere and Television Week.

Her work over the past decade ranges from interviews with noted actors including Hugh Jackman, Christoph Waltz, Anne Hathaway, Annette Bening, Josh Duhamel, Nicolas Cage, Glenn Close, Jon Hamm and Julia Louis-Dreyfus to Emmy and Oscar nominees and industry event and awards show coverage. She’s also written in-depth profiles of upcoming talent, showrunners and directors at the forefront of the business.

Ms. Atkin maintains and continually grows a network of powerful contacts throughout the entertainment industry and is a member of the Writers Guild of America and Critics’ Choice Broadcast Television Journalists Association. She has moderated conference panels at NATPE, ATV Fest in Atlanta, SeriesFest in Denver and for Women in Film in Los Angeles.

Ms. Atkin was an early adopter to digital media, as one of the founding committee members of the Writers Guild of America West’s website, www.wga.org where she wrote about the convergence of entertainment and technology. She was an active member of the guild’s committee on media and technology (CMAT) and two influential digital media organizations, LAwNMoweR (Los Angeles New Media Roundtable) and VIC (Venice Interactive Community).

She took a detour from traditional media to become a senior VP at Fandom, a dot-com 1.0 company that spotlighted a collection of 21 blockbuster genre entertainment properties including Batman, Buffy, X-Men, Harry Potter and Star Wars. It was a great success in the pre-IPO stage,  but the company became a casualty of huge amounts of venture capital funding that were spent far too freely, and not by her.

She tweets on the verified account @HillaryAtkin and Instagrams @AtkinReport.