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Hollywood Reporter’s 2012 Rule Breakers — Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, and the year-end double issue
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2012 In mid-December 2012, The Hollywood Reporter shipped its year-end double issue with four different Rule Breakers covers — Oprah Winfrey, Quentin Tarantino, Psy, and one other featured subject. Winfrey’s cover-story interview tracked the OWN turnaround that had begun rescuing…
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KPCC’s Tony Pierce gives LA Times LAUSD coverage an F — April 2012 schools-press critique
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In mid-April 2012, KPCC’s Tony Pierce posted a sharp critique of how LA Times reporter Howard Blume had been covering an LAUSD proposal to eliminate D-grades from passing-grade calculations. Pierce’s blog post called out the structural under-resourcing of LA…
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James Rainey leaves the LA Times media column for the politics desk — July 2012
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, July 2012 In late July 2012, LA Times media reporter James Rainey announced he was switching beats to politics ahead of the 2012 election cycle. He would be giving up his media column to contribute to the Times’s political blog Politics…
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LA Weekly’s stages of grief over Jonathan Gold’s exit — Amy Scattergood and the February 2012 staff mood
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, February 2012 In late February 2012, the impending departure of Jonathan Gold from LA Weekly back to the LA Times started to substantially affect the alt-weekly’s staff mood. Amy Scattergood, the editor of LA Weekly’s Squid Ink food blog, posted her…
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Joseph Kapsch’s April 2012 jump from THR to Celebuzz — and the Dylan Howard reunion
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In late April 2012, Hollywood Reporter writer Joseph Kapsch announced he was leaving THR.com to join Celebuzz.com as executive editor under Dylan Howard. Then Dylan Howard had been one of the most-active editorial figures in American celebrity-news through the…
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Nancie Clare and Rip Georges launch Noir Magazine — the 2012 tablet-only bet
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2012) · Wayback archive → In early September 2012 — three months after LA Times Magazine was shut down and they lost their jobs — Nancie Clare and Rip Georges announced Noir Magazine, a new tablet-only publication covering the mystery, thriller, and true-crime genres across books,…
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Bill Handel’s March 2012 on-air flashpoint — KFI, the Black Media Alliance, and the Limbaugh aftermath
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2012 In early March 2012, KFI AM 640 morning host Bill Handel said the words “dumb ass women” on-air while discussing a Kansas abortion case. The Black Media Alliance flagged the segment; the Burbank-based KFI management was, in the original…
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Carol Muske-Dukes’s October 2012 HuffPost defense of Patt Morrison — and how the KPCC schedule shuffle played
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, October 2012 In late October 2012, USC English-and-creative-writing professor Carol Muske-Dukes — a former California poet laureate — published a Huffington Post column taking KPCC 89.3 management to task for the way they had treated Patt Morrison. The Pulitzer-winning broadcaster and…
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Dorothy Lucey’s June 2012 KTLA reunion with Sam Rubin — after the Good Day LA exit
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, June 2012 In early June 2012, Dorothy Lucey appeared on KTLA’s Morning News alongside longtime entertainment reporter Sam Rubin — about a week after she had been let go from Good Day LA after 17 years. The reunion was at Sunset…
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Goldman Sachs sells its Village Voice Media stake — Nicholas Kristof, Backpage, and the April 2012 divestment
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In early April 2012, Goldman Sachs sold its 16% stake in Village Voice Media — the parent of LA Weekly, OC Weekly, and the broader VMG newspaper portfolio, plus the substantially more controversial Backpage classified-ads site. The divestment came…