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The LA Times publisher takes the stand in the Tribune bankruptcy
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 In March 2011 FishbowlLA parsed a piece of bankruptcy-court testimony from the LA Times publisher — and read a warning between its lines. Then LA Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein took the stand in the Tribune Company bankruptcy trial. FishbowlLA, working…
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Zachary Pincus-Roth takes over LA Weekly arts and culture — a 2011 masthead transition
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In late February 2011 LA Weekly EIC Drex Heikes named Zachary Pincus-Roth the alt-weekly’s new arts and culture editor — filling the role opened by Tom Christie’s November 2010 exit. Pincus-Roth came from Variety with substantial freelance bylines at the LA…
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The LA Weekly’s web editor steps down, 2011
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, 2011 Staff departures at the LA Weekly were routine newsroom news in 2011. In hindsight, they were also early tremors. Then In February 2011, FishbowlLA noted that Erin Broadley was leaving the LA Weekly after two and a half years as…
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When the NYT public editor responded to Geoff Mohan’s LA Times rebuttal letter
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In late January 2011, the New York Times had just run a piece characterizing the LA Times’ struggles, and LA Times editor Geoffrey Mohan had written back hard — calling the piece “a dagger in the backs of good journalists who…
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Daniel Hernandez’s Mexico City book lands — and the decade-long path of LA journos south
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In late January 2011, former LA Weekly staff writer Daniel Hernandez announced the impending release of his Scribner book Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the 21st Century. Three years of fieldwork in the Distrito Federal had…
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When LA Weekly’s Mike Penner / Christine Daniels story was on the GLAAD list
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → Every January the GLAAD Media Awards nominations roll out, and every January most outlets cover the film and TV slates and skip the print ones. The 2011 list is worth revisiting because the Los Angeles entries on it are a small…
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Roger Friedman’s 2011 Showbiz 411 ‘thievery’ trifecta — Deadline, People, and TVLine
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In mid-January 2011, New York-based showbiz columnist Roger Friedman did something he was already known for at his Showbiz 411 site: name and shame three competitors who he said had picked up his scoops without proper attribution. The “thievery trifecta” called…
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Roger Friedman points the thievery finger at Deadline
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 Aggregation without credit was a running sore in early-2010s online journalism. In January 2011 FishbowlLA caught columnist Roger Friedman naming names. Then Roger Friedman, the New York-based showbiz columnist behind Showbiz 411, had never been shy about calling out outlets…
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The LA Times editorial board on Manning at Quantico — and how the story ended
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In January 2011, the Los Angeles Times editorial board ran a piece calling attention to the detention conditions of the WikiLeaks source held at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. FishbowlLA’s pickup praised the editorial as belated but consequential. Then…
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When Nikki Finke replied to THR’s lawyers — and the trade war went legal
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In the fall of 2011 the Variety / Deadline / Hollywood Reporter rivalry stopped being a column-mention skirmish and became a federal lawsuit. The opening salvo of the public phase was Nikki Finke posting her unredacted email response to Prometheus Global…