The Media Front

Brian Lowry is a veteran media columnist, critic and reporter. He spent eight years at CNN as a columnist and critic beginning in 2016, preceded by serving as a columnist and chief TV critic at Variety. Before that, he worked as a reporter and columnist covering the television industry for the Los Angeles Times, following his first stint in a similar capacity at Variety. Lowry has been a contributor to National Public Radio and Fox Sports and is the former co-host of “Square Off,” a weekly talk program about the television business that aired on TV Guide Network. He is also the author of two authorized companion guides to the Fox series “The X-Files.” Since leaving CNN, Lowry has written for the New York Times, MSNBC.com, Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair and the Daily Beast. Lowry graduated from UCLA and resides in Los Angeles.