Film Journalism in a Shifting Media Landscape

Ann Hornaday has been writing about film for The Washington Post for 22 years. She grew up in Des Moines, Iowa and graduated cum laude with a degree in Government from Smith College. Before coming to the Post, Hornaday was a film critic at The Baltimore Sun and the Austin American-Statesman. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2008. She is the author of Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies and is currently writing a book about the production and legacy of the film All the President’s Men, which Flatiron Books will publish in 2026.

Chloe Lizotte is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor specializing in moving-image topics. She is the deputy editor of MUBI’s film journal Notebook and writes the Event Horizon column for Reverse Shot. She is a co-organizer of the Locarno Critics Academy, a summer workshop for emerging film critics, and has mentored writers at Film at Lincoln Center, the Museum of the Moving Image, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Previously, she was a contributing editor at Le Cinéma Club.

Scott Tobias is a film critic, co-founder of The Reveal, and former editor of The Dissolve and The A.V. Club. He also writes about TV and pop culture. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vulture, The Guardian, The Ringer, NPR and other publications. He lives in Chicago.

Alissa Wilkinson is a critic at the New York Times. Her book We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine, a cultural history of American myth-making in Hollywood through the life and work of Joan Didion, was published by Liveright on March 11, 2025. She teaches creative nonfiction in NYU’s XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement M.A. program. Alissa has been writing criticism since 2005, and her work has appeared in Vox, the NYT Book Review, Vulture, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, The Los Angeles Review of Books, RogerEbert.com, Books & Culture, and many more. Her previous book, Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking and Living from Revolutionary Women, was published by Broadleaf in 2022. She earned an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction writing from Seattle Pacific University and an M.A. in humanities and social thought from New York University.

Genevieve Yue is Associate Professor of Culture and Media and Director of the Screen Studies program at Eugene Lang College, The New School. She is co-editor of the Cutaways series at Fordham University Press, and author of Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality (Fordham UP 2020).