Journalist Tuned In Early to Reporting on Television

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Although he has been covering the TV industry for almost two decades, television wasn’t always in journalist Josef Adalian’s big picture.

He originally leaned toward political reporting, and he didn’t alter his course until after he graduated from Boston University’s College of Communication in 1992 and was working as an intern at the Boston Herald. Adalian was offered the opportunity to cover the summer 1993 TV Critics Press Tour in Los Angeles. After meeting with celebrities and network executives, he decided to change channels and focus on TV journalism.

“The great thing about covering TV instead of politics,” Adalian said, “it is very transparent. The TV business puts it stuff out there and you can analyze it, see the trends.”

He now is analyzing the trends at TheWrap.com, which he recently joined as TV editor. He also will continue to write his blog on the TV industry, TVMoJoe, which he penned as part of his previous job, editor at online news site TV Week.

Santa Monica-based TheWrap is an Internet publication launched in January with the specific goal of challenging the coverage of the entertainment industry by trade papers Variety, where Adalian had worked for 10 years, and Hollywood Reporter.

“This was a big opportunity to be apart of something being built from the ground up,” he said. “We want to be a place that cuts the hype and lets Hollywood know what’s going on in the business in a respectable and fair way.”

And he has no regrets about giving up politicians for TV executives.

“It’s pretty easy when you write about TV and you love it. I watch TV as much as possible,” he said, singling out “Chuck,” “30 Rock” and “Lost” as among his current favorites.

Adalian, 38, is single and lives on the Miracle Mile. In addition to TV watching, he is a fan of the ’80s, and likes to collect music, magazines and newspapers from the era.

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