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| language = English

| owner = [[Penske Media Corporation]]

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'''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 was predominantly [[independent film]], although its coverage has grown to "to include all aspects of Hollywood and the expanding universes of TV and streaming and has continued to do so".<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>{{cite web |url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/first_person_indiewire_10_and_counting/ |title=Indiewire at 10 and Counting |date=July 15, 2006 |access-date=February 10, 2010 |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>

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 |date=16 July 2008 |archive-date=11 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211134412/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/snagfilms-acquires-indiewire-115818 |url-status=live }}</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.

The focus of IndieWire initially was independent film, but has grown to encompass mainstream film, television, and streaming media.<ref>{{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=11 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>{{cite web |urlname=https://www.indiewire.com/about-us/ |title= "About Us|access-date=July 7, 2022 |website=IndieWire}}<"/ref> IndieWire is part of [[Penske Media Corporation|Penske Media]].

It has a staff of 26 people, including publisher James Israel, editor-in-chief Dana Harris-Bridson, editorial director Kate Erbland, digital director Christian Blauvelt, and editor-at-large [[Anne Thompson (film journalist)|Anne Thompson]].<ref>{{cite web |titledate=Team10 April 2024 |websitetitle=IndieWire |date=27 February 2021Masthead |url=https://www.indiewire.com/team/ |accessurl-datestatus=28 February 2021 |archive-date=9 March 2021live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309143116/https://www.indiewire.com/team/ |urlarchive-statusdate=live9 March 2021 |access-date=28 February 2021 |website=IndieWire}}</ref>

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=2010-05-21 |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| 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= 1999-11-13 |url-status=dead | access-date=2011-05-22}}</ref>

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