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July 2011: a Hollywood Reporter parent-company CEO denies his days are numbered
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, July 2011 In late July 2011, FishbowlLA covered a piece of trade-press inside baseball: a reported internal memo at Prometheus Global Media — parent of The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek, and Billboard — said CEO Richard Beckman was giving up day-to-day duties,…
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July 2012: a TV director answers Kim Dotcom’s open letter to Hollywood
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, July 2012 In late July 2012, FishbowlLA covered a satirical exchange in The Hollywood Reporter: TV writer-director Bruce Leddy had published a tongue-in-cheek response to Kim Dotcom’s open letter to Hollywood. The original framing noted that, video piracy being no laughing…
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The American Film Market’s 29th edition unspools in Santa Monica — November 2008
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Dan Cox on FishbowlLA, November 2008 In early November 2008, FishbowlLA covered the opening of the 29th American Film Market — the annual film-sales market that takes over Santa Monica’s Loews Beach Hotel for a week. The original framing, by Dan Cox, captured the market’s…
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February 2013: a report on former KABC anchor Anna Chavez’s retirement
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2013 In late February 2013, FishbowlLA picked up a Rich Lieberman report concerning the retirement of former KABC television news anchor Anna Chavez. Lieberman’s San Francisco-Bay-Area media blog had shared what the original FishbowlLA framing called a chastening bit of…
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April 2012: a tale of two magazine ads for ‘The Client List’
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In early April 2012, FishbowlLA noticed something about the back-cover ads for Lifetime’s new series The Client List: the same campaign, placed in two different magazines, appeared to have been retouched differently. The original framing was a light catch…
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March 2013: a Yahoo Movies GM moves over to The Hollywood Reporter
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2013 In mid-March 2013, FishbowlLA covered Sean Phillips — a Yahoo Movies general manager and editor-in-chief — moving over to The Hollywood Reporter, joining the trade’s film team alongside Gregg Kilday, Alex Ben Block, Borys Kit, and the rest of…
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May 2012: a Zócalo Public Square editor grumbles about the Clooney-Obama fundraiser ‘Starmageddon’
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2012 In mid-May 2012, FishbowlLA covered Zócalo Public Square editor Joe Mathews grumbling about the LA traffic that a George Clooney-hosted Studio City fundraiser for President Obama would cause — a “Starmageddon,” in the framing of the moment. The original…
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Maia Lazar curates the legacy of her mother, LA journalist Cathy Seipp — December 2010
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In late December 2010, FishbowlLA covered Maia Lazar — the 21-year-old daughter of the late LA freelance journalist Cathy Seipp — and her work that holiday season curating and continuing her mother’s journalistic legacy. The original framing tracked the…
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November 2012: Elvis Mitchell, Joaquin Phoenix, and the ‘utter BS’ awards-season interview
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Mona Zhang on FishbowlLA, November 2012 In late November 2012, FishbowlLA covered the fallout from Joaquin Phoenix’s October 2012 Interview magazine conversation with film curator and KCRW host Elvis Mitchell — the interview in which Phoenix called the awards season “total, utter bullshit.” The original…
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December 2010: Douglas McFarlane’s ‘Making It in Hollywood’ — a kilt-wearing showbiz-reporter DVD
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In mid-December 2010, FishbowlLA covered Douglas McFarlane — a London-based Scotsman who by day advised banks on security and internet projects — and his tongue-in-cheek DVD Making It in Hollywood, the result of his accredited-foreign-press tours of the Oscars,…