Janice Min

Janice Min is CEO and co-founder of The Ankler, a fast-growing newsletter and podcasting platform covering the business of entertainment. The Ankler has been called "a buzzy newsletter that circulates through Hollywood C suites" by the New York Times, and a "hit Hollywood newsletter." Part of Silicon Valley's competitive Y Combinator, The Ankler raised money in 2022 at a valuation of $20 million for its seed round.

Previously, Min was the longtime co-president of the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Entertainment Group, where she engineered a publishing rebirth of The Hollywood Reporter hailed as a “stunning transformation” by the New York Times. Previously, as editor-in-chief of Us Weekly, she was cited as having transformed modern celebrity culture.

An Emmy winner, Min has also been Adweek’s Editor of the Year and received AdAge’s Magazine of the Year honors, and has been profiled by the New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, and by WNYC, who labeled her “The Turnaround Artist.”

She was honored with her alma mater Columbia Journalism School’s Alumni Award, the Columbia University Asian-American Alumni Award, and recognized with the University of Missouri’s Honor Medal for distinguished service in journalism. A Matrix Award winner, she additionally has won two National Magazine Awards for General Excellence and been nominated five times.

Min currently sits on the boards of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, UCLA hospital; the American Society of Magazine Editors and the UCLA Institute of Environmental Sciences. She resides in Los Angeles.