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| owner = [[Penske Media Corporation]]

'''''IndieWire''''' (sometimes stylized as '''''indieWIRE''''' or '''''Indiewire''''') is a [[film industry]] and [[Filmfilm criticism|review]] [[website]] that was established in 1996. The site's focus iswas predominantly [[independent film]], although its coverage has grown to "include all aspects of Hollywood and the expanding universes of TV and streaming".<ref name="About Us">{{cite web|url= https://www.indiewire.com/about-us/|title= About Us|access-date= July 7, 2022|website= IndieWire|date= May 25, 2016|archive-date= August 16, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220816024934/https://www.indiewire.com/about-us/|url-status= live}}</ref> IndieWire is part of [[Penske Media Corporation|Penske Media]].

[[File:IndieWire_logoIndieWire logo.svg|thumb|Former Indiewire logo used until 2016]]

The original ''IndieWire'' newsletter launched on July 15, 1996, billing itself as "the daily news service for [[independent film]].". Following in the footsteps of various web- and [[AOL]]-based editorial ventures, IndieWire was launched as a free daily email publication in the summer of 1996 by New York- and Los Angeles-based filmmakers and writers [[Eugene Hernandez]], Mark Rabinowitz, Cheri Barner, [[Roberto A. Quezada]], and Mark L. Feinsod.<ref name=IndieWire>{{cite web |url=httpshttp://www.indiewire.com/2006article/07/first-person-indiewire-10-and-counting-76437first_person_indiewire_10_and_counting/ |title=Indiewire at 10 and Counting |date=July 15, 2006 |access-date=AugustFebruary 1210, 20212010 |archive-date=June 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604191518/http://www.indiewire.com/article/first_person_indiewire_10_and_counting/ |url-status=live }} (Press release)</ref>

Initially distributed to a few hundred subscribers, the readership grew rapidly, passing 6,000 in late 1997.<ref name=IndieWire"Wired97">{{cite news |first= Janelle |last= Brown |title= Indie Film News Service No Longer Free |date= December 22, 1997 |newspaper= [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |url= https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1997/12/9312 |access-date= 2011-05-22 |archive-date= 2012-10-24 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121024073648/http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1997/12/9312 |url-status= live }}</ref>

In January 1997, ''IndieWire'' made its first appearance at the [[Sundance Film Festival]] to begin their coverage of film festivals; it offered ''indieWIRE: On The Scene'' print dailies in addition to online coverage. Printed on site, in low -tech black -and -white style, the publication was able to scoop traditional Hollywood trade dailies ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' and ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' due to the delay these latter publications had for being printed in Los Angeles.{{Citation needed|date=July 2017}}

The site was acquired by [[Snagfilms]] in July 2008.<ref>{{cite news |last=Goldstein |first=Gregg |title=SnagFilms acquires IndieWire |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/snagfilms-acquires-indiewire-115818 |access-date=11 December 2019 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |lastdate=Goldstein|first=Gregg|title=SnagFilms16 acquiresJuly 2008 IndieWire|accessarchive-date=August11 12,December 2019 2021|datearchive-url=Julyhttps://web.archive.org/web/20191211134412/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/snagfilms-acquires-indiewire-115818 16,|url-status=live 2008}}</ref> On January 8, 2009, ''IndieWire'' editor Eugene Hernandez announced that the site was going through a re-launch that has been "entirely re-imagined." In 2011, with the launch of a redesign, the site changed the formal spelling of its name from ''indieWIRE'' to ''IndieWire''.

[[Penske Media Corporation|Penske Media]] acquired ''IndieWire'' on January 19, 2016. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.<ref name=Variety>{{cite magazineweb|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 19, 2016|title=Penske Media Acquires Indiewire|url=https://variety.com/2016/biz/news/penske-media-indiewire-1201682719/|access-date=December 11, 2017|archive-date=December 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201219093011/https://variety.com/2016/biz/news/penske-media-indiewire-1201682719/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The focus of ''IndieWire'' isinitially was independent film, but has grown to encompass mainstream film, television, and streaming media.<ref name=About>{{cite web |title=About IndieWire |url=https://www.indiewire.com/about-us/ |website=indiewire.com |date=25 May 2016 |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=August11 12,December 2019 |archive-date=6 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206061908/https://www.indiewire.com/about-us/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="About Us"/> IndieWire is part of [[Penske Media Corporation|Penske Media]].

{{As of|2021}}, the company is a subsidiary of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', which is part of Penske Media.<ref name=About/> It has a staff of 26 people, including publisher James Israel, editor-in-chief Dana Harris-Bridson, chiefeditorial criticdirector EricKate KohnErbland, digital director Christian Blauvelt, and editor-at-large [[Anne Thompson (film journalist)|Anne Thompson]] and senior critic David Ehrlich.<ref>{{cite web |titledate=Team10 April 2024 |websitetitle=IndieWire Masthead |dateurl=Februaryhttps://www.indiewire.com/team/ 27,|url-status=live 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309143116/https://www.indiewire.com/team/ |archive-date=9 March 2021 |access-date=August28 12,February 2021 |website=IndieWire}}</ref>

In ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'', in 1997, Janelle Brown wrote: "Currently, IndieWire has little to no competition: trades like ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' and ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' may cover independent film, but from a Hollywood perspective, hidden by a huge amount of mainstream news. As filmmaker Doug Wolens points out, IndieWire is one of the few places where filmmakers can consistently and reliably keep on top of often-ignored small film festivals, which films are opening and what other filmmakers are thinking"."<ref name=IndieWire"Wired97"/>

In 2002, ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine recognized IndieWire, along with seven other entrants, in the "Cinema Appreciation" category, as a "Best of the Web Pick,", describing its best feature as "boards teeming with filmmakers" and its worst as "glacial search engine".<ref>{{cite news |title= Forbes Best of the Web - IndieWire |work= [[Forbes]] |date= March 25, 2002 |access-date=May 2010-05-21, 2010|url=https://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/review.jhtml?id=6296|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217131631/https://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/review.jhtml?id=6296|archive-date=17 February 2012}}</ref> IndieWire has been praised by [[Roger Ebert]].<ref name="Ebert">{{cite journal| title= Rule of Thumb: Best Indie Crossroads| first= Roger |last=Ebert| author-link=Roger Ebert|work journal= Yahoo Internet Life - Summer Movies Guide| publisher= ZDNet| volume= 5 |issue= 6| date= June 1999| url= http://www.zdnet.com/yil/content/mag/9906/ebert7.html | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/19991113073103/http://www.zdnet.com/yil/content/mag/9906/ebert7.html| archive-date=November 1999-11-13, 1999|url-status=dead | access-date=May 22, 2011-05-22}}</ref>

In 2012, ''IndieWire'' won the [[Webby Award]] in the Movie and Film category.<ref>{{cite web|title=Webby Awards 2012|url=https://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2012/web/general-website/movie-film/indiewire-website/|access-date=August 12, 20212018-01-15|archive-date=2018-01-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116004520/https://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2012/web/general-website/movie-film/indiewire-website/|url-status=live}}</ref>

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