[7][8] He is the author of seven books covering news, true-crime, and entertainment[9] and has produced award-winning podcasts in partnership with Endeavor,[10] including Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood[11][12] and Epstein: Devil In The Darkness.
[15] Howard started his journalism career as a teenager in 1999, writing for The Geelong Advertiser,[6] a daily newspaper circulating in Victoria, Australia, and the Bellarine Peninsula.
[14] His primary reporting focus was on the Australian Rules Football League (AFL),[17] but during the summer months, he would present the Melbourne evening sports bulletin.
[26] By 2014, the site's parent company, American Media, Inc.(AMI), named Howard editor-in-chief of the National Enquirer in addition to his role as editorial director of Radar.
[30] On 6 October 2020 Howard was announced as the U.S. publisher and chief executive officer of global fashion media brand, Grazia.
[34] Howard appeared in, and executive produced the 3-part mini-series "JonBenet: An American Murder Mystery" on Investigation Discovery[43] and was the most-watched series in the history of the network (2016).
[44] Howard also executive produced "National Enquirer Investigates," "Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery," "The Kitty Kelley Files," and others.
[50] In awarding him the top national honor, they also noted: "In the world of celebrity and entertainment news, even mainstream media couldn’t ignore exclusive stories broken under Dylan Howard’s tenure as senior executive editor of RadarOnline.com."
He has previously won L.A. Press Club awards for online news reporting—Mel Gibson audiotapes—and investigative journalism, for exposing a secret Hollywood poker ring involving A-List actors Tobey Maguire, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
"[55] Bloomberg suggested the Bezos scandal could upend a 2018 non-prosecution agreement the publisher of the National Enquirer struck with federal prosecutors in New York over its illegal aid to the Trump campaign.
[58] In the mid-2010s, adult film actress Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal received payments in exchange for not publicly discussing their sexual encounters with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
[59] The New York Times reported on 23 August 2018 that Howard was cooperating with federal investigators examining hush payments made by Michael Cohen to the two women on behalf of President Donald Trump.
[60] Ronan Farrow claims in his book Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators that American Media, Inc. and the National Enquirer shredded sensitive Trump-related documents held in a top-secret safe on orders from then-editor-in-chief Howard the same day a reporter from the Wall Street Journal asked for a comment for a story about how AMI paid $150,000 to Karen McDougal to keep her story about having an affair with Trump quiet before the election.
[66] Text messages also revealed Howard's reluctance to buy Daniels' story, telling Davidson things such as "Waive the white people.
It's over" and how he believed that Trump was "f**ked already.”[66] However, Davidson would acknowledge that a comment he texted to Howard on the November 2016 election night, where he claimed ""What have we done?
[69][70] A text message which was also shown during the trial revealed that Cohen informed Howard that he was making the catch and kill hush money payment on Trump's behalf.
[74] On 7 March 2018, Howard successfully sued Nine Network's 60 Minutes after they unlawfully trespassed on private property and attempted to question him about the Weinstein story in his New York office lobby.
[74] On 22 April 2016, issue of The Hollywood Reporter, Howard wrote a firsthand account of how he exposed that actor Charlie Sheen was HIV positive.
The magazine wrote: "Dylan Howard was the volatile actor's confidant until the National Enquirer editor began investigating rumors that Sheen was HIV positive.
[citation needed] Howard, on Tuesday 28 August 2007, went on 3AW during the Sport's Today program and explained to Caroline Wilson that his comments on Friday night had been misinterpreted and that he had "apologised to those who misunderstood that at the time".
[citation needed] On 1 August 2007, Australian Football League star, Jason Akermanis wrote an article[79] for Melbourne's NewsCorp paper, the Herald Sun, stating that he 'felt' that his direct opponent in previous games seemed able to run faster and recover better.
[5] On April 22, 2024, former American Media Inc. head David Pecker revealed that Howard, who was considered to be a potential witness in Donald's Trump's New York criminal case, was now living in Australia and also suffering from a "spinal condition" which makes it impossible for him to travel internationally.