title: Matthew Belloni
text: # Matthew Belloni
  
  Matthew Belloni (born 1976/1977) 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.
  
  ## Education
  
  Belloni received a bachelor's degree in political science University of California, Berkeley, and earned a Juris Doctor from the USC Gould School of Law, where he was a member of the USC Law Review.
  
  ## Career
  
  Early in his career, Belloni was an attorney at an entertainment law firm in Los Angeles. He also wrote for magazines such as Esquire and Town & Country.
  
  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.
  
  ## Awards
  
  In 2020, Belloni and The Hollywood Reporter won the National Magazine Award for general excellence, special interest publication, from the American Society of Magazine Editors.
  
  