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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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The LA Times promotes Joy Press to books and culture editor
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In August 2012 the Los Angeles Times handed one of its most coveted culture jobs to Joy Press — a move FishbowlLA tracked partly because Press and her husband, music critic Simon Reynolds, were a familiar LA journalism couple. Then…
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Patrick Goldstein’s 2012 trades ranking — Deadline 1st, Variety 4th, and the awards-ads tell
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In July 2012, Los Angeles Times columnist Patrick Goldstein spent a week calling Hollywood and asked an awkward question — where does Variety actually rank now? — and got an awkward answer. The trades had been reordered, and Variety’s century-long presumption…
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Jon Thurber retires, the LA Times books editor search begins — May 2012
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Marcus Vanderberg (2012) · Wayback archive → In May 2012, longtime LA Times books editor Jon Thurber announced his retirement, and the paper opened the search for his successor. The transition was a small structural moment in the city’s books-and-criticism beat. Then Thurber had been one of the…
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Russ Stanton, just out as LA Times editor, takes over content at KPCC
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, 2012 In early 2012, one of the more consequential career moves in Los Angeles journalism arrived with a quiet headline: a newspaper editor crossing into public radio. Then Just one month after stepping down as editor of the Los Angeles Times,…
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A laid-off Voice of San Diego reporter lands at the LA Times
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2012 In early 2012, the wider story of where journalism jobs were appearing — and disappearing — could be read in a single hire. Then FishbowlLA reported that Emily Alpert, formerly of the nonprofit news site Voice of San Diego, had…
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Art Rogers, an LA Times photographer for four decades, dies at 93
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 Some newsroom careers are measured in scoops. Others are measured in images. Art Rogers’s was the second kind. Then In late December 2011, FishbowlLA noted the death of Art Rogers, a native Angeleno who had spent more than 40 years…
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March 2011: LA Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein takes the stand in the Tribune bankruptcy trial
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, March 2011 In mid-March 2011, FishbowlLA tracked a substantive LA-media-business moment: LA Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein took the stand in the Tribune Company bankruptcy trial. Then The Tribune Company bankruptcy was one of the most consequential American newspaper-industry financial collapses of…
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Murray Seeger, former LA Times foreign correspondent, dies at 82 — August 2011
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, August 2011 In late August 2011, FishbowlLA noted the death of Murray Seeger, the former LA Times journalist who spent 14 years at the paper from 1967 to 1981. Seeger died from pneumonia at 82. Then Murray Seeger’s 14-year LA Times…