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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…
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August 2011: photographer David Strick sues the LA Times — and a Tim Rutten reporting dispute
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, August 2011 In mid-August 2011, FishbowlLA covered two parallel LA Times stories. Freelance photographer David Strick had filed a lawsuit against the paper. And — separately — reporter Brent Lang had run an item that the original FishbowlLA framing called “a…
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November 2011: KPCC hires Tami Abdollah for the education beat
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, November 2011 In mid-November 2011, FishbowlLA covered KPCC’s hiring of former LA Times staff writer Tami Abdollah as the public-radio station’s education writer. The hire was made by Tony Pierce. The original FishbowlLA framing tracked the LA-Times-to-KPCC reporter migration. Then The…
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Robin Abcarian on the Today Show — how the LA Times broke the Schwarzenegger affair story, May 2011
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, May 2011 In late May 2011, LA Times reporter Robin Abcarian appeared on NBC’s Today Show with Matt Lauer to discuss how the LA Times had broken the news that former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had fathered a child with the…
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Ruben Vives and Jeff Gottlieb win the 2011 Selden Ring Award — LA Times’s Bell corruption investigation
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, February 2011 In late February 2011, LA Times reporters Ruben Vives and Jeff Gottlieb were announced as winners of the 2011 Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting — recognizing their work breaking the story of outrageous city-official salaries in Bell, California.…
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Former LA Times correspondent Murray Seeger dies at 82
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 An August 2011 FishbowlLA notice marked the death of a Los Angeles Times correspondent who had reported from one of the toughest beats of the Cold War. Then Murray Seeger, who spent 14 years at the LA Times from 1967…
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Ashley Dunn’s ‘we don’t get ulcers, we give ulcers’ memo — a 2011 LAT layoff snapshot
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In late July 2011 the LA Times went through another round of layoffs. California editor Ashley Dunn sent his Metro desk a pep-talk memo that has, in retrospect, become one of the small canonical artifacts of how working editors held their…
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When Tribune’s 2011 consolidation skipped the LA Times — the seven-year-long sale signal
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In mid-July 2011 Tribune Company announced a major consolidation of its publishing division — folding the Sun Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel, Baltimore Sun, Hartford Courant, The Morning Call, and the Virginia Daily Press under a single new CEO based in Chicago. Conspicuously…