Malina Saval

Award-Winning Journalist & Author

Exploring film, television, culture, and the human stories behind the headlines.

About Malina

Malina Saval is an award-winning entertainment journalist and author of The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens. She is a former features editor at Variety and editor-in-chief of Pasadena Magazine.

Her work has appeared in major publications including Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Glamour, Tablet, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She has also appeared on CNN, NPR, KCRW, and PBS.

Selected Publications

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FEATURED ARTICLES

Awards & Recognition

First Place

National Arts & Entertainment
Journalism Awards

01. Remembering Jean-Marc Vallée →

02. Are the Kids All Right? →

03. Too Jewish for Hollywood →

04. Boaz, Bruce and Born To Run →

05. Hiding in Plain Sight →

06. Colman Domingo Explains 'Sing Sing'

First Place

Los Angeles Press Club Awards

01. What TV Gets Right — and Wrong — About Autism



Read selected articles, essays, and cultural commentary.