Editing Entertainment Weekly (section)

===Layout===
''Entertainment Weekly'' follows a typical magazine format by featuring a [[letter to the editor]] and a [[table of contents]] in the first few pages, while also featuring advertisements. While many advertisements are unrelated to the entertainment industry, most ads are typically related to up-and-coming television, film, or music events.{{Citation needed|date=October 2017}}

==== News and notes ====
These beginning articles open the magazine and as a rule focus on current events in pop culture. The whole section typically runs eight to ten pages long, and features short news articles and several specific recurring sections:

*"'''Sound Bites'''" usually opens the magazine. It is a collage of media personalities, actors, presenters, or comedians, alongside their recent memorable quotes in [[Speech balloon|speech bubble]] form.
*"'''The Must List'''" is a two-page spread highlighting 10 things (books, movies, songs, etc.) that the staff loves from the week; it usually features one pick from ''EW'' readers.
*"'''First Look'''", subtitled "An early peek at some of Hollywood's coolest projects", is a two-page spread with behind-the-scenes or publicity stills of upcoming movies, television episodes, or music events.
*"'''The Hit List'''", written each week by critic Scott Brown, highlights 10 major events, with short comedic commentaries by Brown. Typically, some continuity to the commentaries exists. This column was originally written by Jim Mullen and featured 20 events each week, and Dalton Ross later wrote an abbreviated version.
*{{anchor|The Hollywood Insider}}"'''The Hollywood Insider'''" is a one-page section that reports breaking news in entertainment. It gives details, in separate columns, on the most-current news in television, movies, and music.
*"'''The Style Report'''" is a one-page section devoted to celebrity [[fashion|style]]. Because its focus is on celebrity fashion or lifestyle, it is graphically rich in nature, featuring many photographs or other images. The page converted to a new format: five pictures of celebrity fashions for the week, graded on the magazine's review "A"-to-"F" scale ''(see [[#Reviews|Reviews]] section below)''. A spin-off section, "'''Style Hunter'''", which finds reader-requested articles of clothing or accessories that have appeared in pop culture recently, appears frequently.
*"'''The Monitor'''" is a two-page spread devoted to major events in celebrity lives with small paragraphs highlighting events such as weddings, illnesses, arrests, court appearances, and deaths. Deaths of major celebrities are typically detailed in a one-half- or full-page [[obituary]] titled "'''Legacy'''". This feature is nearly identical to sister publication ''People''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "Passages" feature.
*The "'''celebrity'''" column, the final section of "News and Notes", is devoted to a different column each week, written by two of the magazine's more-prominent writers:
**"'''The Final Cut'''" is written by former executive editor and author [[Mark Harris (journalist)|Mark Harris]]. Harris' column focuses on analyzing current popular-culture events, and is generally the most serious of the columns. Harris has written about the writer's strike and the 2008 presidential election, among other topics.
**"'''Binge Thinking'''" was written by screenwriter [[Diablo Cody]]. After several profiles of Cody in the months leading up to and following the release of her debut film, ''[[Juno (film)|Juno]]'' (2007), she was hired to write a column detailing her unique view of the entertainment business.
**'''If You Ask Me...'''" Libby Gelman-Waxer ([[Paul Rudnick]]) was brought in to write his former ''[[Premiere Magazine|Premiere]]'' column for ''Entertainment Weekly'' in 2011.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://ew.com/article/2012/01/13/ask-libby-gelman-waxner/|title=Ask Libby|date=13 January 2012|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=January 2, 2017|archive-date=February 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207005216/http://ew.com/article/2012/01/13/ask-libby-gelman-waxner/|url-status=live}}</ref>

====Feature articles====
Typically, four to six major articles (one to two pages each) fill the middle pages of the magazine. These articles are most commonly [[interview]]s, but  also it has narrative articles and lists. Feature articles tend to focus mostly on movies, music, and television and less on books and the theatre. In the magazine's history, only  a few cover stories (e.g., [[John Grisham]], [[Stephen King]]) were devoted to authors;  a cover has never been solely devoted to the theater.{{Citation needed|date=October 2017}}

====Reviews====
Seven sections of reviews are in the back pages of each issue (together encompassing up to one-half of the magazine's pages). In addition to reviews, each reviews section has a top-sellers list, as well as numerous sidebars with interviews or small features. Unlike a number of [[Europe]]an magazines that give their ratings with a number of stars (with normally 4 or 5 stars for the best review), ''EW'' grades the reviews academic-style, so that the highest reviews get a letter grade of "A" and the lowest reviews get an "F", with plus or minus graduations in between assigned to each letter except "F".

The sections are:
;"Movies": Typically, this section features all the major releases for that weekend, as well as several [[independent film|independent]] and [[foreign film|foreign]] films that have also been released. Chris Nashawaty is the primary [[film criticism|film critic]]. "Critical Mass"  was a table of the grades that have also been given by a number of noted movie reviewers in the American press (such as [[Ty Burr]] from ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', Todd McCarthy from ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', and [[Roger Ebert]] from the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''). Also eliminated from this section was the box-office figures from the previous weekend and some sort of [[Information graphics|infographic]]s. The A+ rating is rarely awarded by ''EW''. Two films to have received it are ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' and ''[[My Left Foot (film)|My Left Foot]]'' (1989). [[DVD]]s are now profiled in the one-page "Movies on DVD" section that follows. Longtime critic [[Lisa Schwarzbaum]] left the magazine in 2013, and critic [[Owen Gleiberman]] was let go after a round of layoffs in spring 2014.<ref>{{cite news |title= ''EW'' Lays Off Longtime Film Critic Owen Gleiberman in Staff Purge |url= http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ew-lays-longtime-film-critic-693094 |work= The Hollywood Reporter |date= April 2, 2014 |access-date= June 27, 2014 |archive-date= August 13, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140813042011/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ew-lays-longtime-film-critic-693094 |url-status= live }}</ref> In 2015, it started publishing the scores of movies from [[Metacritic]], [[Rotten Tomatoes]], and [[IMDb]] under "Critical Mass."

;"Television": This section features reviews by critics Darren Franich and Kristen Baldwin for [[television movie|made-for-television film]]s and new [[television program|television programs or series]], as well as some [[television special]]s. The section no longer includes the [[Nielsen ratings]] for the previous week. On the following page is typically a "TV on DVD" section, profiling releases of television films and specials or complete seasons of television shows. Current reviewers include Melissa Maerz.

;"What to Watch": Currently written by Ray Rahman, this features brief, one- or two-sentence reviews of several television programs on each night of the week, as well as one slightly longer review, usually written by someone else, with a letter grade.

;"Music": This section reviews major [[album]] releases for the week, divided by [[genre]]. Typically, at least one interview or feature is presented, as well as a section called "Download This", highlighting several [[single (music)|single]]s available for download from the Internet.

;"Books": This section features reviews of books released during the week. Sometimes, authors write guest reviews of other works. Typically, one interview or spotlight feature is included in this section per issue. [[Bestseller|Bestseller list]]s appear at the end of this section.

;"Theater"*: Reviews productions currently playing, listed by the city where they are running

;"Games"*: Reviews current video game releases

;"Tech"*: Reviews new websites and products, and profiles current Internet or technology phenomena

:<nowiki>*</nowiki>  ''Not in every issue.''

====The Bullseye====
This section occupies the back page of the magazine, rating the "hits" and "misses" from the past week's events in popular culture on a [[Bullseye (target)|bullseye]] graphic. For example, the May 22, 2009, edition featured [[Justin Timberlake]] hosting ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' in the center, while the then-drama between [[Eminem]] and [[Mariah Carey]] missed the target completely for being "very 2002". At the time when this was printed on a small part of a page, events that were greatly disliked  were shown several pages away.