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The Hollywood Reporter’s parent company gets a new name and a new boss
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2013 In January 2013 FishbowlLA reported a corporate rebrand that signaled bigger ambitions for The Hollywood Reporter’s owner — and a sharper rivalry at the top of the trade business. Then Under Guggenheim Partners, The Hollywood Reporter’s parent company — until…
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When the Academy’s first online-balloting year produced a same-day awards-press dustup
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → The 2012-2013 Oscar season was the first year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences moved to online member balloting, and the rollout went poorly. The press story that surfaced the problem belonged to Scott Feinberg at THR. The story…
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Animal Radio’s Davy Jones final-interview re-air — a 2012 obit-in-broadcast format
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In late December 2012, syndicated weekly Animal Radio announced it would re-air its final interview with Davy Jones — the Monkees frontman who had died in February 2012 of a heart attack at 66. The interview had been one of the…
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February 2012: Janice Min on rebuilding The Hollywood Reporter — the AvantGuild interview
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2012 In mid-February 2012, FishbowlLA picked up a Mediabistro AvantGuild “So What Do You Do?” interview with Janice Min — the editor who had rebuilt The Hollywood Reporter. The original framing pulled out a detail about Min and Twitter: an…
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April 2012: Jay A. Fernandez joins Indiewire from The Hollywood Reporter
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In late April 2012, FishbowlLA covered Jay A. Fernandez officially starting at Indiewire as senior writer and news editor. The move — from The Hollywood Reporter — had first been announced by Anne Thompson on her Indiewire blog. Then…
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Jay Penske puts Michelle Sobrino-Stearns in charge at Variety — October 2012
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In mid-October 2012 — barely a week after PMC’s acquisition of Variety from Reed Elsevier had closed — Jay Penske announced that Michelle Sobrino-Stearns was taking over as Variety’s publisher, replacing Brian Gott. Then Sobrino-Stearns came in with substantial trade-publication background.…
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Penske names Variety’s first female publisher
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 Days after Penske Media completed its purchase of Variety, FishbowlLA noted a milestone in the trade’s long history: its first female publisher. Then Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, a 15-year Variety veteran whose titles already included sales director, managing director of features and…
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October 2012: Deadline pulls an Ari Emanuel lawsuit item, and Nikki Finke posts a rare apology
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, October 2012 In mid-October 2012, Deadline.com reporter Dominic Patten filed an item about an Ari Emanuel lawsuit. The item was quickly pulled, and Nikki Finke posted what the original FishbowlLA framing called “the diametrical opposite of a TOLDJA!” — a rare…
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When Sam Rubin’s Twitter got hacked — July 2012, KTLA, and the Gawker pile-on
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, July 2012 In early July 2012, KTLA entertainment reporter Sam Rubin’s Twitter account was hacked over a weekend — and the situation produced an unusual secondary story when Gawker’s Louis Peitzman read something darker into Rubin’s hacked feed even after Rubin…