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The Hollywood Reporter needs a new strategy, but the one it has chosen -- replacing its daily print edition with a glossy weekly magazine aimed at consumers and luxury advertisers -- may be worse than preserving the status quo.

Former Conde Nast executive Richard Beckman, who's been hiring big-name editors for his trade magazine group, may be courting Rupert Murdoch biographer and professional gadfly Michael Wolff for an editorial director position.