Certainly one of Hollywood’s high expertise companies despatched out a blistering company-wide memo after Selection revealed a not-very-favorable story about stated company.
On Wednesday, Selection (owned by Penske Media Company, which additionally owns The Hollywood Reporter) revealed a chunk by reporter Matt Donnelly that spotlights latest high-profile consumer departures from United Expertise Company, reminiscent of Alex Cooper and Nikki Glaser, in addition to alleged consolidation stress throughout the media area and brokers’ nervousness inside the corporate.
In response, UTA CEO David Kramer issued an e-mail to workers, accusing Donnelly of threatening them and intentionally attempting to wreck the expertise company’s enterprise. “This morning, Selection revealed an article with a transparent bias in opposition to our enterprise,” he wrote. “It distorts latest occasions, is agenda-driven and doesn’t replicate the power or momentum of UTA. Let me be clear: We’re thriving.”
“This can be a reporter that has declared in an e-mail that UTA is a ‘flagrant and hostile enemy,’ and in a textual content that there would ‘be penalties each from Selection/PMC and myself’ to UTA, and said to UTA workers his intent to wreck UTA’s enterprise. He has lately subjected ladies at UTA to hostile and unprofessional conduct. That doesn’t dwell as much as any editorial commonplace. We is not going to tolerate it,” Kramer added within the e-mail.
A spokesperson for Selection informed THR that Donnelly’s feedback that have been quoted within the UTA employees memo have been taken out of context. “On Aug. 26, Selection revealed a narrative in our journal about UTA dropping Nikki Glaser and Alex Clooper as shoppers. We stand by our reporting and our editor Matt Donnelly,” the spokesperson stated in an announcement. “The e-mail and texts cited by UTA in its memo to employees date from final Could when a UTA exec initiated a heated forwards and backwards, concerning an on-the-record Q and A printed by Selection, which Donnelly regrets being drawn into.”
THR additionally reached out to Donnelly for remark.
Learn Kramer’s full memo to employees beneath.
This morning, Selection revealed an article with a transparent bias in opposition to our enterprise. It distorts latest occasions, is agenda-driven and doesn’t replicate the power or momentum of UTA. Let me be clear: We’re thriving.
This can be a reporter that has declared in an e-mail that UTA is a “flagrant and hostile enemy,” and in a textual content that there would “be penalties each from Selection/PMC and myself” to UTA, and said to UTA workers his intent to wreck UTA’s enterprise. He has lately subjected ladies at UTA to hostile and unprofessional conduct. That doesn’t dwell as much as any editorial commonplace. We is not going to tolerate it.
Listed here are the info: UTA is rising. 2025 was a record-breaking 12 months for our firm and we’re on monitor to outperform in 2026. We outperform as a result of we serve our shoppers higher than anybody else.
It’s that management that may make you a goal. We is not going to be bullied or distracted by business rumors and gossip.
We have now constructed probably the most culturally related world expertise company, and we are going to proceed to guide by constructing on that place and executing for our shoppers.
This second ought to energize all of us to double down and do what we do greatest.
Thanks for all you do. David
