Lindsay Chaney

Lindsay Chaney (born in 1951) is a senior news editor at Variety.

He joined Variety in 1999. Previously he was a business editor and writer at the Long Beach Press-Telegram, covering the aerospace industry and finance. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Los Angeles magazine. He is the co-author, with Michael Cieply, of a book about the heirs of William Randolph Hearst entitled The Hearsts: Family and Empire, published by Simon & Schuster. Chaney, an editor at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner before it folded in 1989, had access to original Hearst documents and letters.

Chaney was spokesman for the Committee that organized the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Book The Hearsts: Family and Empire with Michael Cieply