Emily Longeretta has been promoted to feature film director for VarietyThe editorial department of Focus.
Longeretta will oversee all features and new business development for Focus, covering sponsored publishing as well as a variety of other topics including festivals, FYC coverage, hit lists, lifestyle, travel, industry anniversaries, milestones and pop culture coverage. Leading the Focus department, you will work closely with Carole Horst, Deputy Editor at Focus and one of the VarietyEmployees with the longest years of service.
With the promotion, Longeretta will report to Ramin Setoodeh, VarietyCo-President and Co-Editor-in-Chief and Cynthia Littleton, Co-Editor-in-Chief.
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Littleton praised Longeretta as a true team player, well-known and well-liked in the industry. «Emily is a respected voice in entertainment journalism. She has a seemingly endless appetite for entertainment and pop culture. Her love of television, film, music and other sectors that Variety The covers are always evident in his work,” Littleton said.
Longeretta joined Variety in January 2022 as senior TV features editor after four years at Us Weekly, rising to senior entertainment editor. In Variety, He quickly took on more responsibility for overseeing FYC’s television coverage and a host of other duties. She has overseen the production of 14 additional editions each year during Emmy season, as well as other publishing franchises such as Reality TV Impact Report, Women of Reality and TV Producers Impact Report.
Longeretta Co-Hosts Variety“Awards Circuit” podcast, which analyzes the race and contenders of the film and television awards seasons. She frequently moderates conversations at festivals across the country and appears widely in local and national media as a reporter and commentator on entertainment news and trends. He hosts a regular weekly entertainment news segment on CBS Los Angeles (KCAL-TV).
