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March 2011: Prometheus Global Media discounts a New York Post story about its CEO
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2011 In mid-March 2011, FishbowlLA covered Prometheus Global Media — the parent company of The Hollywood Reporter — discounting a New York Post story about its leadership. Then Prometheus Global Media was the holding company that owned The Hollywood Reporter,…
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March 2011: the LA Business Journal runs the numbers on the relaunched Hollywood Reporter
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2011 In late March 2011, FishbowlLA picked up a Greg Hernandez piece in the LA Business Journal that ran the business numbers on the relaunched Hollywood Reporter — the glossy weekly magazine that Janice Min had built from the ashes…
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Conrad Murray’s creditors come after NBCUniversal and MSNBC
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 When MSNBC scheduled a documentary built around Conrad Murray, FishbowlLA flagged the lawsuit that followed the money — and questioned the wisdom of the deal that produced it. Then The documentary Michael Jackson and the Doctor: A Fatal Friendship was…
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Joseph Kapsch disputes TheWrap’s exit story — a 2011 THR masthead messy moment
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In late October 2011, TheWrap’s Lucas Shaw reported that THR.com editor Joseph Kapsch — only a few months into the job — was on his way out. Kapsch publicly disputed the report. Then Patrick Day, THR’s deputy web editor, had just…
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THR’s web editor disputes TheWrap’s report of his exit
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 In October 2011 FishbowlLA found itself refereeing a bitter dispute between two media outlets over a story about a third one. Then TheWrap’s Lucas Shaw had reported that THR.com deputy web editor Patrick Day was leaving for the LA Times,…
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Jonathan Gold’s ’99 Essential Restaurants’ for 2011 — what makes an LA restaurant essential
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Marcus Vanderberg on FishbowlLA, November 2011 In early November 2011, FishbowlLA covered the release of Jonathan Gold’s “99 Essential Restaurants” list for 2011 — the LA Weekly’s annual flagship dining guide from the Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic. The question Gold posed that year was deceptively…
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November 2011: KPCC hires Tami Abdollah for the education beat
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, November 2011 In mid-November 2011, FishbowlLA covered KPCC’s hiring of former LA Times staff writer Tami Abdollah as the public-radio station’s education writer. The hire was made by Tony Pierce. The original FishbowlLA framing tracked the LA-Times-to-KPCC reporter migration. Then The…
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Adam Winkler’s ‘Gunfight’ — the 2011 book that refused to take a side in the gun debate
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, September 2011 In late September 2011, FishbowlLA covered UCLA law professor Adam Winkler’s new book Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. The framing hook was a telling anecdote: when Winkler spoke to a TV-booking agent about…
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Chuck Philips joins a Suge Knight documentary — September 2011, and the Pulitzer winner’s second act
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, September 2011 In late September 2011, FishbowlLA reported that a Showtime documentary on Death Row Records founder Suge Knight was in development, with Training Day director Antoine Fuqua attached to helm. The detail FBLA flagged: Pulitzer Prize-winning former LA Times reporter…
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June 2011: David Poland takes on Nikki Finke over the Lynne Segall post
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, June 2011 In mid-June 2011, FishbowlLA tracked a public clash between Movie City News writer David Poland and Deadline.com’s Nikki Finke. Finke had published a lengthy post slamming outgoing media executive Lynne Segall, accusing her of an assortment of unethical behavior…