Variety’s New Publisher and Co-President Dea Lawrence Sets Her Agenda: ‘This Is Where Leaders Are Born’

Dea Lawrence has assumed the top business role at Variety, succeeding Michelle Sobrino Stearns as publisher and also becoming co-president (a role she’ll share with Ramin Setoodeh, Variety’s co-editor-in-chief). Lawrence is already in the trenches. Here she outlines her plan to take Variety into its next 120 years as Hollywood’s magazine of record. What was […]