Starting in 1996, Tim Adler became Deputy Editor of the influential UK biweekly trade magazine Screen Finance, covering film and television funding when it was then owned by the Financial Times Group. In 2000, Informa Telecoms & Media purchased all of the Financial Times Group’s business-to-business publications, and appointed Adler as Editor of its New Media Markets trade. In 2001, Adler returned toScreen Finance as Editor where he remained until mid-December 2009 to join Deadline.com.

Adler also has written two non-fiction books about the movie industry and is working on a third. In 2007, Bloomsbury published his exposé, Hollywood and The Mob, which was named one UK newspaper’s “Book of the Week”, and another’s “Critic’s Choice”. In 2004, Methuen put out his first book, The Producers: Money, Movies and Who Really Calls the Shots. Adler is currently writing a biography of Oscar-winning film and theatre director Tony Richardson.

Adler also has written about the entertainment business for the Financial Times, the Guardian and The Times, among others. Adler was the only business journalist asked to give evidence at the most recent Parliamentary investigation into the British film industry. He was recently recalled to give evidence before the House of Lords’ communications committee. He regularly comments for UK media on film and television, including BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, BBC World Service, and Sky News.