Katie Kilkenny Promoted to Enterprise Reporter, TV and Labor at The Hollywood Reporter

Katie Kilkenny, labor and media reporter at The Hollywood Reporter, has been promoted to enterprise reporter, TV and labor, THR editor-in-chief Maer Roshan announced on Friday.

In her expanded position, Kilkenny will cover the business of television development and production while seeking out scoops and enterprise stories across the streaming landscape. She will serve as an additional presence in L.A. for THR’s television team, which includes television features editor Mikey O’Connell, television business editor Rick Porter, television editor Tony Maglio and writer-at-large James Hibberd.

Meanwhile, Kilkenny will continue to cover core issues impacting the industry’s workforce and the business of Hollywood unions for THR’s website and print magazine.

“Katie has built a reputation as one of the sharpest labor reporters in the business — tenacious, well-sourced and unafraid to go after difficult stories. She’s broken news, won awards and given a voice to people who rarely get one. I am excited to see her bring those formidable skills to a broader Hollywood landscape,” Roshan said in a statement.

In her eight years at THR, Kilkenny has risen from an associate editor to a beat reporter tackling union negotiations, workplace issues, the intersection of politics and entertainment and the flight of production from California. During her time at the magazine she has reported scoops and written hard-hitting investigative and feature stories. She’s covered entertainment workers living in their cars, hostile industry workplaces and the struggles of Hollywood production assistants. In 2023 she led THR’s coverage of the dual Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

Her stories have won Los Angeles Press Club Awards, and she has previously written for The Atlantic, Vice, Pacific Standard and the Los Angeles Review of Books. In 2025, she won second place in the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards’ contest for print journalist of the year and was awarded first place for stories on the 2025 L.A. wildfires and the aftermath of the 2023 strikes.

The news arrives after a busy awards season for the publication, which in addition to covering every angle of Hollywood’s biggest night published a blockbuster Oscars issue and sponsored an Art of Oscar exhibition at the Megan Mulrooney Gallery in West Hollywood.

Kilkenny will report to executive editor, business Erik Hayden.