Bio

James Hibberd is a Los Angeles-based writer who covers the television industry for The Hollywood Reporter. He has appeared on CBS Early Show, National Public Radio, E! News, Fox Business Channel and other media outlets.

Previously Hibberd covered the entertainment industry for the national trade publication Television Week. Before that, he worked as a staff writer at the Phoenix New Times.

Hibberd has worked on several based-on-a-true-story screenwriting projects, including teaming with director Rupert Wainwright (“Stigmata”) for a theatrical dramatization of the 1993 Waco Branch Davidian tragedy. Previously, for director Meiert Avis (“Undiscovered,” several U2 videos), Hibberd wrote a script based on the true story of three young Americans who joined the Cuban Revolution during the late 1950s.

Hibberd’s freelance stories have appeared in the New York Times, Salon, Details, Cosmopolitan, Amnesty International Magazine and other publications.