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Russ Stanton, just out as LA Times editor, takes over content at KPCC
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, 2012 In early 2012, one of the more consequential career moves in Los Angeles journalism arrived with a quiet headline: a newspaper editor crossing into public radio. Then Just one month after stepping down as editor of the Los Angeles Times,…
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THR’s 2012 Russian edition — and the international franchise model that the geopolitical map redrew
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In mid-January 2012 The Hollywood Reporter announced it was launching a Russian-language monthly print edition in March, with a companion website at thehollywoodreporter.ru. The launch was the third foreign-language THR property under Janice Min — following the path Billboard had pioneered…
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A laid-off Voice of San Diego reporter lands at the LA Times
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2012 In early 2012, the wider story of where journalism jobs were appearing — and disappearing — could be read in a single hire. Then FishbowlLA reported that Emily Alpert, formerly of the nonprofit news site Voice of San Diego, had…
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Variety’s BlogDogger launches — the trade watchdog that sniffed Deadline’s timestamps
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In early January 2012 Variety launched a feature called BlogDogger — an in-house watchdog blog dedicated to “prowling the perimeter of entertainment journalism, hounding hypocrisy, snarling at snafus and sometimes just howling at the moon.” Its first viral catch was an…
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Brian Brooks leaves Indiewire for Deadline — a Christmas-Day 2011 hire and the indie-film desk it built
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In a Christmas Day 2011 blurb, Nikki Finke announced that Brian Brooks — the longtime New York-based managing editor of Indiewire — was joining Deadline.com as its LA-based film editor, starting just in time to cover Sundance 2012 alongside Mike Fleming.…
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Art Rogers, an LA Times photographer for four decades, dies at 93
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 Some newsroom careers are measured in scoops. Others are measured in images. Art Rogers’s was the second kind. Then In late December 2011, FishbowlLA noted the death of Art Rogers, a native Angeleno who had spent more than 40 years…
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Nikki Finke’s Thanksgiving 2011 Deadline hires — Lowe and Tartaglione from HollywoodWiretap
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → On the Thanksgiving Day afternoon of November 24, 2011, Nikki Finke teased “two important staff additions” at Deadline. Kinsey Lowe and Nancy Tartaglione — both from the HollywoodWiretap.com newsletter operation — were the named hires. The Tartaglione part of the announcement…
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November 2011: Conrad Murray’s creditors sue NBCUniversal over the documentary fee
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, November 2011 In mid-November 2011, FishbowlLA covered a complicated media-ethics-and-litigation story: as the documentary Michael Jackson and the Doctor: A Fatal Friendship was set to air on MSNBC, creditors of Conrad Murray sued NBCUniversal. Murray had reportedly been paid around $300,000…
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March 2011: LA Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein takes the stand in the Tribune bankruptcy trial
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, March 2011 In mid-March 2011, FishbowlLA tracked a substantive LA-media-business moment: LA Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein took the stand in the Tribune Company bankruptcy trial. Then The Tribune Company bankruptcy was one of the most consequential American newspaper-industry financial collapses of…
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Murray Seeger, former LA Times foreign correspondent, dies at 82 — August 2011
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, August 2011 In late August 2011, FishbowlLA noted the death of Murray Seeger, the former LA Times journalist who spent 14 years at the paper from 1967 to 1981. Seeger died from pneumonia at 82. Then Murray Seeger’s 14-year LA Times…