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Undated: Dylan Howard (born 19 January 1982)[1][2] is an Australian entertainment journalist who is the Vice President and Chief Content Officer at American Media. He oversees Us Weekly, OK!, Star, In Touch, Life & Style, Closer, The National Enquirer and its U.K. edition, Globe, The National Examiner, and RadarOnline.com.[3] He is a television producer and documentarian who has developed and created shows for Investigation Discovery,[4] TLC,[5] REELZ,[6] and other networks.
Howard was named the 2011 Entertainment Journalist of the Year at the National Entertainment Journalism Awards (NEJA). He is a five-time NEJA winner, 14-time finalist and has previously won L.A. Press Club awards for online news reporting—Mel Gibson audio tapes—and investigative journalism, for exposing a secret Hollywood poker ring involving A-List actors Tobey Maguire, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio. He has been nominated 11 times for various L.A. Press Club awards.
In 2017, the Associate Press reported on an inquiry conducted by American Media in 2012 about a sexual harassment allegation toward Howard, but concluded there was no serious wrongdoing.[20] American Media has supported Howard through the accusations, calling the accusations "baseless."[21]
In February 2019, Jeff Bezos claimed that Howard, in his role as an editor at American Media, took part in an effort to blackmail him.[7] Howard was a party to a September 2018 non-prosecution agreement with Southern District of New York federal prosecutors.[8]
The New York Times reported on August 23, 2018 that Howard was cooperating with federal investigators examining hush payments made by Michael Cohen to two women on behalf of President Donald Trump.[25] Vanity Fair reported that Howard had received witness immunity in exchange for his testimony.[26]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Howard
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December 5: National Enquirer Editor Dylan Howard Accused of Harassment and Sexual Misconduct
Twelve former employees of American Media Inc. detail years of sexual harassment in the workplace.
The top editor for the National Enquirer, Us Weekly and other major gossip publications openly described his sexual partners in the newsroom, discussed female employees' sex lives and forced women to watch or listen to pornographic material, former employees told the Associated Press.
The behavior by Dylan Howard, currently chief content officer of American Media Inc., occurred while he was running the company's Los Angeles office, according to men and women who worked there. Howard's self-proclaimed nickname was "Dildo," a phallus-shaped sex toy, the former employees said. His conduct led to an internal inquiry in 2012 by an outside consultant, and former employees said he stopped working out of the L.A. office after the inquiry.
Howard quit soon after the report was completed, but the company rehired him one year later with a promotion that landed him in the company's main office in New York. It was not clear whether Howard faced any discipline over the accusations. The AP is not aware of any sexual harassment allegations involving Howard since he was rehired.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/national-enquirer-editor-dylan-howard-accused-harassment-sexual-misconduct-1064604
-- 2018 --
August 24: Trump investigation grants Australian journalist Dylan Howard 'immunity'
The National Enquirer kept a safe containing damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to the 2016 presidential election, people familiar with the arrangement have said.
The detail comes after reports US federal prosecutors have granted immunity to National Enquirer chief David Pecker and Australian editor Dylan Howard, potentially laying bare their efforts to protect Trump.
Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty this week to campaign finance violations, claiming he, the President and the tabloid were involved in buying the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels. The actress alleges she had an affair with Trump in 2006.
Several people familiar with the National Enquirer's parent company, American Media Inc, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they signed non-disclosure agreements, said the safe was a great source of power for Pecker, the company's CEO.
The Trump records were stored alongside similar documents pertaining to other celebrities' catch-and-kill deals, in which exclusive rights to people's stories were bought with no intention of publishing to keep them out of the news. By keeping celebrities' embarrassing secrets, the company was able to ingratiate itself with them and ask for favours in return.
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/trump-investigation-grants-australian-journalist-dylan-howard-immunity-20180824-p4zzhb.html
-- 2019 --
March 2: Trump's friend David Pecker, ... CEO of American Media Inc., which publishes the National Enquirer, would have AMI "catch and kill" stories that might be embarrassing for Trump by paying people involved for the exclusive rights to them — but never publishing them.
That's what happened with former Playboy model Karen McDougal before Election Day in 2016 ...
But there was evidently a great deal more to the relationship between Trump and Pecker/AMI than the McDougal case, Cohen said. Pecker's company worked many times to buy embarrassing stories about Trump, even ones that weren't true, which enabled AMI to compile a "treasure trove" of potentially damaging material.
Cohen was so interested in what AMI had accumulated that when Pecker was negotiating to potentially take another important publishing job, Cohen wanted to buy the Trump archive on behalf of his client to ensure it was kept safe.
Who else would know about the "treasure trove" and these practices? Former National Enquirer editor Barry Levine would, Cohen said, as well as a vice president of AMI, Dylan Howard.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/02/699309857/who-from-trump-world-do-house-democrats-likely-want-to-talk-to-next
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