Dave Robb, who spent more than four decades on the Hollywood labor beat for The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and, most recently, Deadline, has died. He was 74.
Robb died peacefully Friday night at his Los Angeles home after being diagnosed in late October with inoperable cancer of the brain stem, Deadline reported. (Deadline, like THR and Variety, are owned by Penske Media Group.)
He spent most of his last year covering the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
A dogged investigative journalist in his day, the gruff yet genial Robb started at THR as an editorial assistant in 1979, the first of his five stints with the paper. On Facebook, former editor Alex Ben Block wrote that he hired him twice and “rarely gave Dave an assignment. Usually he came to me with stories out of the blue that were amazing, brilliant and breaking news.
“I just want to add what a true original he was,...
Robb died peacefully Friday night at his Los Angeles home after being diagnosed in late October with inoperable cancer of the brain stem, Deadline reported. (Deadline, like THR and Variety, are owned by Penske Media Group.)
He spent most of his last year covering the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
A dogged investigative journalist in his day, the gruff yet genial Robb started at THR as an editorial assistant in 1979, the first of his five stints with the paper. On Facebook, former editor Alex Ben Block wrote that he hired him twice and “rarely gave Dave an assignment. Usually he came to me with stories out of the blue that were amazing, brilliant and breaking news.
“I just want to add what a true original he was,...
- 12/9/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dave Robb, a longtime Hollywood labor reporter who worked for Variety in the 1980s and ’90s, died Dec. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 74 and had recently been diagnosed with cancer of the brain stem.
Robb most recently worked for Deadline, Variety‘s sibling company under the Penske Media Corp. umbrella. Robb spent most of this year on the strike beat as the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA engaged in historic, months-long work stoppages.
Robb made his name with aggressive and investigative reporting on Hollywood’s powerful labor unions. But he also had numerous other passions, always with an eye toward using his platform as a journalist to help the less privileged. Michael Fleming Jr., Deadline co-editor in chief, confirmed Robb’s death in a lengthy tribute posted Saturday.
“He was an advocate for the under-represented and disenfranchised in Hollywood: African American and Native American actors, child actors,...
Robb most recently worked for Deadline, Variety‘s sibling company under the Penske Media Corp. umbrella. Robb spent most of this year on the strike beat as the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA engaged in historic, months-long work stoppages.
Robb made his name with aggressive and investigative reporting on Hollywood’s powerful labor unions. But he also had numerous other passions, always with an eye toward using his platform as a journalist to help the less privileged. Michael Fleming Jr., Deadline co-editor in chief, confirmed Robb’s death in a lengthy tribute posted Saturday.
“He was an advocate for the under-represented and disenfranchised in Hollywood: African American and Native American actors, child actors,...
- 12/9/2023
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Longtime Deadline reporter Dave Robb has passed away at age 74. Considered the dean of the Hollywood labor beat, Robb was recently diagnosed with inoperable cancer of the brain stem.
This diagnosis came in late October. Robb experienced what was initially diagnosed as a small stroke. He and wife Kelly learned in follow-up visits that it was far more serious. He entered into hospice care just before Thanksgiving, and died peacefully at Los Angeles home late Friday night, his wife by his side.
I always called Dave Deadline’s cage fighter because if there was a wrong to be righted, he was the first man in the ring. Along with his unparalleled knowledge of the Hollywood labor game honed from 45 years writing about it from Los Angeles, Dave would often surprise us with investigative stories on myriad topics that we found about only when he turned them in.
The subjects ranged...
This diagnosis came in late October. Robb experienced what was initially diagnosed as a small stroke. He and wife Kelly learned in follow-up visits that it was far more serious. He entered into hospice care just before Thanksgiving, and died peacefully at Los Angeles home late Friday night, his wife by his side.
I always called Dave Deadline’s cage fighter because if there was a wrong to be righted, he was the first man in the ring. Along with his unparalleled knowledge of the Hollywood labor game honed from 45 years writing about it from Los Angeles, Dave would often surprise us with investigative stories on myriad topics that we found about only when he turned them in.
The subjects ranged...
- 12/9/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
On Saturday night, the State of California dropped a damning report about how the state has dealt with — some would say not dealt with — the tidal wave of unemployment claims it has experienced since counties and businesses were shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The report revealed that the state Employment Development Department’s backlog of unemployment insurance claims is growing by 10,000 a day during the Covid-fueled recession. That’s just the backlog.
On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom sought to address the issue.
“This system is an old, 30-year-old system,” he said. The computers and software that help it run “need to be strewn to the waste bin of history.”
Newsom said that the report came out this weekend because he didn’t want to wait to begin implementing its recommendations. “The reset began this weekend,” he revealed. The reset process is expected to end on October 5.
Among the...
The report revealed that the state Employment Development Department’s backlog of unemployment insurance claims is growing by 10,000 a day during the Covid-fueled recession. That’s just the backlog.
On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom sought to address the issue.
“This system is an old, 30-year-old system,” he said. The computers and software that help it run “need to be strewn to the waste bin of history.”
Newsom said that the report came out this weekend because he didn’t want to wait to begin implementing its recommendations. “The reset began this weekend,” he revealed. The reset process is expected to end on October 5.
Among the...
- 9/21/2020
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
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