Dylan Howard (born 19 January 1982) 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 Examiner, RadarOnline.com, and The National Enquirer and its U.K.
edition, Globe.
He is a television producer and documentarian who has developed and created shows for Investigation Discovery, TLC, REELZ, 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 February 2019, Jeff Bezos claimed that Howard, in his role as an editor at American Media, took part in an effort to blackmail him.
Howard was a party to a September 2018 non-prosecution agreement with Southern District of New York federal prosecutors.