Erich Schwartzel is an entertainment reporter at the Wall Street Journal’s Los Angeles bureau, where he covers all the major studios and theater chains and focuses on the growing entanglement of China and Hollywood. Before moving west, he spent several years covering fracking in Appalachia for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; his investigative work there won the Scripps Howard Award for Environmental Reporting.
Red Carpet: Inside China’s Takeover of Hollywood and the 21st-Century Fight for Cultural Supremacy
Empire: Star Wars and the World It Built