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Erin Aubry Kaplan’s January 2013 KCET column — a Leimert Park reader, an off-line phone call, and Black-LA-Times coverage
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2013 In early January 2013, Erin Aubry Kaplan’s first KCET blog post of the new year — published in KCET’s SoCal Focus commentary section — drew an unusual reader response: a 74-year-old Leimert Park grandmother named Ann did not Google…
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Araksya Karapetyan’s May 2013 FOX 11 Morning News promotion — the KFI-to-FOX 11 LA-broadcast lane
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2013 In mid-May 2013, FOX 11 LA promoted Araksya Karapetyan to full-time anchor on its Morning News broadcast. Karapetyan had started her broadcast career while at the Newhouse School at Syracuse, interning at LA’s KFI AM 640 and KABC-TV; she…
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When the Dorner manhunt landed in a KCRW producer’s front yard — February 2013
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2013 In mid-February 2013, during the LAPD’s manhunt for fugitive former officer Christopher Dorner, the search briefly landed at the Adams Hill neighborhood home of KCRW associate news producer Darrell Satzman. The original FishbowlLA framing captured the recursive cycle: an…
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Jim Carroll’s 2013 Irish Times column on KCRW — and the international public-radio music-discovery model
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2013 In late March 2013, Irish Times music writer Jim Carroll published a column in praise of KCRW and the broader public-radio music-discovery model. The column landed in front of KCRW general manager Jennifer Ferro and the rest of the…
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NPR’s 2013 ‘Coffee Week’ profile of The ESPRESSO — and the SoCal cafe-culture argument about Wi-Fi
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2013 In late April 2013, NPR’s The Salt food blog ran a profile of John A. Rippo, publisher of the San Diego monthly The ESPRESSO and its companion daily website. The piece was part of NPR’s themed “Coffee Week” —…
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Pete Hammond’s Not-So-Great Gatsby moment — Deadline at the 2013 Cannes opener
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In mid-May 2013 the 66th Cannes Film Festival opened with Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, and Deadline’s Pete Hammond filed a review-cum-coverage piece that other critics — Alonso Duralde at TheWrap among them — found uncomfortably close to studio-marketing tone. Then…
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Harry Shearer’s KCRW exit — the 2013 Le Show interview with Mike Roe at KPCC
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In mid-April 2013, KCRW’s Le Show host Harry Shearer talked publicly about being downsized at KCRW — speaking with KPCC’s Mike Roe on the Without a Net podcast about the end of his long-running tenure at the Santa Monica public-radio station.…
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The Hollywood Reporter launches a ‘Behind the Screen’ tech blog
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2013 An April 2013 item marked The Hollywood Reporter staking out a beat that the streaming era would make far more important than it looked at the time. Then The Hollywood Reporter launched ‘Behind the Screen,’ a new hollywoodreporter.com blog curated…
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PMC and Prometheus settle the Deadline/THR copyright suit — and the road to the eventual THR acquisition
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late March 2013, PMC and Prometheus Global Media settled the 2011 copyright-infringement lawsuit that had defined the public-facing posture of the Deadline-vs-THR rivalry for 18 months. Jay Penske’s company announced the deal at the close of a busy week that…
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Josh Dickey leaves Variety for TMZ — the March 2013 hire and the post-PMC trade exodus
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late March 2013, Variety film editor Josh Dickey — whose career FishbowlLA had been tracking for years — accepted the managing editor role at TMZ.com. Nikki Finke once again broke the Variety-internal news on Deadline. The exit fit a clear…