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Fernando Dominguez watches his son Matt’s MLB debut — and what came after
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, September 2011 In mid-September 2011, LA Times sports-desk copy editor Fernando Dominguez flew to Miami to watch his son Matt make his Major League Baseball debut with the Florida Marlins. Matt Dominguez had been a Chatsworth High School star and a…
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Shaun Lumachi dies at 33 — and the Long Beach Post he co-founded
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2011 In early December 2011, Long Beach Post co-founder and publisher Shaun Lumachi died at 33 in a Florida car crash. He had been in St. Petersburg attending the National Workforce Association’s conference. The Long Beach Post he had co-founded…
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March 2011: Visual Art Source publisher’s HuffPost strike — the unpaid-blogger ethics fight that found its voice
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, March 2011 In early March 2011, Bill Lasarow — publisher and co-editor of the LA-based Visual Art Source website — declared a strike against the Huffington Post over the platform’s continuing reliance on unpaid bloggers and syndicated content. The original FishbowlLA…
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Keith Olbermann’s first Current TV interview — and the $10M-with-equity deal
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In June 2011 Marisa Guthrie landed Keith Olbermann’s first sit-down interview about his MSNBC exit and his move to Current TV. The Hollywood Reporter cover story disclosed the contract terms: $10 million a year, plus equity in the network that could…
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David Carr’s 2011 NY Times praise for Janice Min — the early-cycle validation
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In late May 2011 — only ten months into Janice Min’s relaunch of The Hollywood Reporter — the New York Times’ David Carr ran a Media Equation column praising the editorial turnaround. The piece was the first major East-Coast-press validation of…
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AOL Daily Finance’s 2011 staff reboot — Peter Goodman, HuffPo, and a long arc
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In late May 2011 Peter Goodman — recently elevated to Executive Business Editor of the merged AOL Huffington Post Media Group — announced a substantial staff reboot at AOL Daily Finance. Then The AOL-HuffPo merger had closed in March 2011 for…
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Tim Adler’s exit from Deadline London — and the 20-calls-a-day rumor
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2011) · Wayback archive → In May 2011 Tim Adler stepped down as editor of Deadline London. Multiple anonymous sources told FishbowlLA that Adler had quit because he got tired of Nikki Finke calling him 20 times a day. Finke’s version was that Adler was leaving…
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When Nikki Finke responded to Patrick Goldstein — the 2011 Miami Herald piece
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In mid-May 2011, Patrick Goldstein — by then sharing his LA Times trades beat with colleague James Rainey — published a piece in the Miami Herald about Deadline.com. Nikki Finke responded with the line that captured the moment: “I’m still calling…
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Has Nikki Finke gone soft? Patrick Goldstein asks
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 In May 2011 FishbowlLA flagged a Patrick Goldstein column asking whether Deadline’s Nikki Finke had lost her edge after being acquired. Then The LA Times’s Patrick Goldstein — by then sharing his beat with colleague James Rainey and writing for…
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THR pulls Joseph Kapsch from Zap2it — the 2011 hire and the open-web era
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In May 2011 The Hollywood Reporter announced it had hired Joseph Kapsch — the editorial director at Tribune-owned Zap2it.com — as its new website editor, replacing Bryan Alexander, who had decamped for USA Today. The hire was a clean signal of…