The Hollywood Reporter has another publisher — the third in a year’s time. The new guy is Billboard publisher John Kilcullen (Scottish or Irish?), taking the place of Tony Uphoff, who said he’d rather take an Irvine-based job as president of CMP Technology, which he called “a significantly larger opportunity.” That means Uphoff didn’t work out on some level. Nobody vacates a top-of-the mountain position like THR publisher after less than a year on the job without something askew somewhere. Billboard and the Reporter are sister publications under the Dutch media conglomerate VNU.
