Editing Entertainment Weekly (section)

==== 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>