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Margie Carranza and Emma Hernandez get the $40K — the Dorner-era LAPD payout
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2013) · Wayback archive → In mid-March 2013 the LAPD agreed to pay Margie Carranza, 47, and her mother Emma Hernandez, 71 — the LA Times delivery drivers whose truck had been shot up by LAPD officers during the February 2013 hunt for Christopher Dorner —…
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When Deadline and Variety moved into the same Westwood high-rise — a March 2013 cohabitation
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In March 2013, PMC announced that Variety, Deadline, and its other web publications would soon be sharing the same Westwood high-rise at 11175 Santa Monica Boulevard. The Twitter wisecracks comparing it to a reality show were predictable. One floor of the…
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The year TMZ took its job interviews to SXSW
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2013 By 2013, TMZ had reshaped celebrity news. Its approach to hiring, it turned out, was just as unorthodox. Then In March 2013, FishbowlLA flagged a job listing that stood out from the usual Mediabistro postings. TMZ was searching for a…
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Erin Weinger joins THR.com as Style Editor — and the fashion-brand build-out
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late February 2013 The Hollywood Reporter announced Erin Weinger as its new Style Editor on the website side, reporting to culture editor Degen Pener and THR.com editor Chris Krewson. The hire signaled how seriously THR’s Janice Min era was treating…
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FishbowlLA’s post-Oscars Google+ hangout, February 2013
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2013 Some archive posts are time capsules of a platform as much as an event. This 2013 FishbowlLA item invited readers to a post-Oscars Google+ hangout — a sentence that needs two footnotes today. Then The post previewed the 85th Academy…
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Marc Bernardin, Tatiana Siegel, and Jen Hoche join THR — January 2013 buildout continues
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late January 2013, The Hollywood Reporter continued its editorial-staff buildout with Marc Bernardin, Tatiana Siegel, and Jen Hoche. Then Bernardin joined as a film and TV writer with a comics-and-genre background from Entertainment Weekly and io9. Siegel came in as…
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Finke breaks news of pending Variety layoffs — three months after the PMC deal closed
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late January 2013, Nikki Finke published a Deadline.com item announcing that PMC was planning Variety editorial firings in March. The story was unusual not because the layoffs were happening — that was widely expected — but because the breaking of…
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Janice Min’s January 2013 THR reinforcement hires — Magzanyan, Belloni, and the path to break-even
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late January 2013 The Hollywood Reporter announced a slate of hires across marketing and editorial — Anna Magzanyan as VP of marketing, plus Matthew Belloni’s elevation to executive editor and other moves on the digital side. The FishbowlLA framing was…