Matthew Belloni (born 1975) is an American entertainment journalist, podcaster, and former attorney. He is a founding partner of the digital media company Puck. Before that, he was the editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter.
He joined The Hollywood Reporter in 2006, and was editorial director for the magazine from 2016 to 2020, where he was responsible for all editorial content. In April 2020, he left The Hollywood Reporter after a series of editorial disputes with the publication's management.
Belloni joined Puck in May 2021 as a founding partner and writes a twice-weekly newsletter called What I'm Hearing about the entertainment industry. As an industry expert, Belloni appears regularly on shows such as NBC Nightly News, CBS This Morning, CNN, CNBC, and NPR's The Business.
In March 2022, Belloni launched the Hollywood insider podcast The Town on The Ringer Podcast Network.
He appears as himself in episodes 1, 9 and 10 of the first season of The Studio, an Apple TV+ comedy created by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
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