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Anthony Zuiker’s 2010 ‘digi-novel’ bet — and the format the streaming era replaced it with
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In November 2010, CSI franchise creator Anthony Zuiker gave FishbowlLA an exclusive interview about the next installments in his “digi-novel” trilogy. Level 26: Dark Origins (2009) had been the first attempt; Dark Prophecy was the new release. Then The digi-novel format…
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The CSI creator pushes his ‘digi-novel’ experiment
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2010 In late 2010 the creator of CSI sat down with Mediabistro to talk up a format he was sure would be the future of storytelling: the ‘digi-novel.’ Then Anthony Zuiker, the mastermind of the CSI franchise, freely admitted that his…
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Michalene Busico’s 2010 move to Robb Report — and the long Spring Street Project diaspora
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2010) · Wayback archive → In late October 2010, CurtCo Media announced that Michalene Busico — formerly executive editor of Entrepreneur, deputy features editor of the LA Times, food editor of the New York Times for five years before that — was joining Robb Report as…
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December 2010: the Burbank Leader’s Dan Evans and the city’s $1 million in undisclosed bonuses
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In late December 2010, FishbowlLA covered a local-government transparency fight in Burbank. The city had disclosed that — amid budget shortfalls — Burbank city employees had received roughly $1 million in bonuses the prior year. But the city would…
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The October 2010 LA Times op-ed asking if WikiLeaks could have stopped 9/11
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, October 2010 In mid-October 2010, FishbowlLA picked up an LA Times op-ed by former FBI special agent Coleen Rowley and former Federal Air Marshal Bogdan Dzakovic. The piece speculated on whether the September 11 attacks could have been averted if an…
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April 2010: the HBO ‘Tilda’ pilot, the Nikki Finke resemblance, and the lawsuit question
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, April 2010 In late April 2010, FishbowlLA weighed in on the HBO pilot Tilda — a project about a powerful Hollywood blogger who used her website to take on Tinseltown’s power players. When THR’s Matthew Belloni revealed the script details, the…
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An LA Times reporter faces a Berkeley audience over the teacher-ratings series
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2010 In autumn 2010 the Los Angeles Times became the story rather than the teller of it. FishbowlLA covered a UC Berkeley panel where one of the paper’s reporters defended a project that had become the center of a national argument…
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Bill Higgins leaves Variety for a fast-expanding Hollywood Reporter
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2010 In the autumn of 2010, every few weeks seemed to bring another byline defecting from Variety to The Hollywood Reporter. Bill Higgins was one of the more telling departures. Then FishbowlLA, citing Anne Thompson’s indieWIRE blog, reported that Bill Higgins…
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When The Hollywood Reporter’s web traffic first overtook its digital rivals
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, 2010 For years the conventional wisdom held that the old entertainment trades had been left behind online. In August 2010, a set of traffic numbers complicated that story. Then In the summer of 2010, The Hollywood Reporter — long dismissed as…
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Bill Carter’s October 2010 ‘War for Late Night’ — and the long arc of the Conan-Jay conflict
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, October 2010 In late October 2010 — only ten months after Conan O’Brien had been forced off NBC’s Tonight Show by the late-night-schedule rearrangement that returned Jay Leno to the post-11 p.m. slot — New York Times television writer Bill Carter’s…