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Robin Abcarian on the Today Show — how the LA Times broke the Schwarzenegger affair story, May 2011
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, May 2011 In late May 2011, LA Times reporter Robin Abcarian appeared on NBC’s Today Show with Matt Lauer to discuss how the LA Times had broken the news that former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had fathered a child with the…
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Ruben Vives and Jeff Gottlieb win the 2011 Selden Ring Award — LA Times’s Bell corruption investigation
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, February 2011 In late February 2011, LA Times reporters Ruben Vives and Jeff Gottlieb were announced as winners of the 2011 Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting — recognizing their work breaking the story of outrageous city-official salaries in Bell, California.…
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The day PMC filed the copyright lawsuit against Prometheus — September 14, 2011
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → On September 14, 2011, five days after Nikki Finke’s notorious “SCOLDJA” email response to Prometheus Global Media’s lawyers ran on Deadline, Penske Media Corporation filed its copyright infringement complaint in U.S. District Court. Then The complaint’s headline allegation was about web…
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Section 34 — what PMC’s THR lawsuit actually alleged, and how the case ended
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → The headline charge of Penske Media Corporation’s September 2011 lawsuit against Prometheus Global Media was about TVLine and HollywoodReporter.com having suspiciously similar templates. The actual document was 30 paragraphs longer and aimed at something different: a numbered list of stories THR…
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Nikki Finke fires back at The Hollywood Reporter’s lawyers — in public
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 The rivalry between Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter was the defining feud of early-2010s entertainment media. In September 2011 it spilled into legal letters — and Nikki Finke published her reply for everyone to read. Then By the fall of…
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Former LA Times correspondent Murray Seeger dies at 82
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 An August 2011 FishbowlLA notice marked the death of a Los Angeles Times correspondent who had reported from one of the toughest beats of the Cold War. Then Murray Seeger, who spent 14 years at the LA Times from 1967…
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The 2011 MTV VMAs record ratings — and the format lesson the Oscars eventually didn’t learn
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In late August 2011 the MTV Video Music Awards posted their best ratings ever — a record that came with no host on stage, after Chelsea Handler had hosted the 2010 show. The original FishbowlLA framing suggested the VMA ratings might…
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California Watch’s April 2011 ‘On Shaky Ground’ investigation — seismic-safety failure in California public schools
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2011 In early April 2011, California Watch — the state-focused project of the Center for Investigative Reporting — released the first installment of “On Shaky Ground,” a three-part, 19-month investigation into seismic safety at California public schools. The findings were…
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CPJ’s 2011 Impunity Index — Iraq, Mexico, and the documented unsolved-murders-of-journalists list
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, June 2011 In early June 2011, the Committee to Protect Journalists released its annual Impunity Index — the documented ranking of countries with the most unsolved murders of journalists. Iraq led with 92 unsolved cases; Mexico, the 8th-most-dangerous country, had 13…
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Gustavo Arellano takes the OC Weekly editor-in-chief job — November 2011
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, November 2011 In late November 2011, Gustavo Arellano — the Ask A Mexican columnist who had been OC Weekly’s managing editor for the previous 18 months — was named the paper’s editor-in-chief. He took over from Ted Kissell, who had announced…