Variety Boss Claudia Eller Out as Ramin Setoodeh and Cynthia Littleton Named Co-Editors-in-Chief

Fr0m a story on thewrap,com by Lindsey Ellefson headlined “Variety Boss Claudia Eller Out as Ramin Setoodeh, Cynthia Littleton Named C0-Editors-in Chief”:

Claudia Eller is out after eight years as Variety’s top editor.

On Monday, Variety announced that New York-based executive editor Ramin Setoodeh has been promoted to co-editor-in-chief with Cynthia Littleton, who had served with Eller in that role since October 2020.

Eller, who took a five-month leave from Variety’s top job in 2020 after a staff revolt over an article she wrote about newsroom diversity and subsequent clashes at a staff meeting, was previously announced as serving out the end of her contract in summer 2022.