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Chris Krewson jumps Variety for THR — the 2012 hire that signaled which way the trades were tilting
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In late June 2012 Variety.com editor Chris Krewson — half of the duo, with Josh Dickey, that ran Variety’s digital news desk and most recently the public BlogDogger watchdog feature — left to take the equivalent role at THR.com. Three months…
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Jeffrey Jolson-Colburn, longtime Hollywood Reporter music editor, has died
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, 2012 Before entertainment news fractured across a hundred websites, a handful of trade-paper bylines defined how Hollywood understood its own music business. Jeffrey Jolson-Colburn was one of them. In June 2012, FishbowlLA marked his death. Then Jeffrey Jolson-Colburn, a veteran entertainment…
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The 2012 LAPD reply-all email leak — and what the NBC LA bunny-trafficking story exposed
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2012 In early December 2012, NBC LA investigative reporter Ana Garcia ran a story on illegal animal-trafficking arrests in downtown LA. LAPD media-relations chief Robbi Peele then sent an internal email about the story that, through a reply-all chain, ended…
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Villaraigosa’s 2012 KPCC interview about his marriage — and the political fallout that followed
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, June 2012 In late June 2012, LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sat for a KPCC interview with senior online reporter Alice Walton in connection with a Loyola Marymount conversations-series event. Walton’s piece for KPCC included the mayor’s on-record answer to a question…
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May 2012: AOL narrows Arianna Huffington’s portfolio back to HuffPost
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, May 2012 In early May 2012, AOL announced that Arianna Huffington’s editorial portfolio — which had since the February 2011 $315 million Huffington Post acquisition included Patch, MovieFone, PopEater, and TechCrunch — was being narrowed back to just the Huffington Post.…
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KPCC’s 2012 visit to the church where Aretha recorded ‘Amazing Grace’ — and the film that finally arrived
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2012 In late December 2012, KPCC 89.3 reporter Christopher Johnson aired a 40th-anniversary look at Aretha Franklin’s 1972 recording of Amazing Grace at Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts. The piece was structured as a place visit — Johnson going…
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Localore lands at KCRW and KQED — the 2012 AIR demonstration project and what it modeled
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2012 In late January 2012 the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) announced the ten producers it was placing at host stations across the country for Localore — its demonstration project aimed at fostering 21st-century public-radio reporting. Three of the…
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KCRW’s Unfictional revisits Whitey Bulger’s quiet Santa Monica years — Gideon Brower’s 2012 documentary
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, June 2012 In late June 2012, Gideon Brower’s half-hour radio documentary The Couple in 303 debuted on KCRW’s Unfictional. The piece was about the experiences of the neighbors at the Princess Eugenia apartments in Santa Monica — the building where James…
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Karina Longworth’s December 2012 LA Weekly exit — and the long arc to You Must Remember This
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2012 In mid-December 2012, LA Weekly film critic Karina Longworth announced she was leaving the staff to go freelance. Her stated reason was that a book project had come along — a Cahiers du Cinema commission on Meryl Streep —…
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Scott Feinberg’s 2012 Malibu sitdown with Martin Sheen — the long-form videotape interview as a Hollywood-coverage form
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2012 In late March 2012, Hollywood Reporter writer Scott Feinberg published a nearly two-hour videotaped conversation with Martin Sheen at Sheen’s Malibu home. The interview had originated when Sheen heard, “through the grapevine,” about Feinberg’s fondness for The Way —…