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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…
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R. Scott Moxley’s annotated takedown of the LA Times Donald Bren profile — February 2011
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2011 In late February 2011, OC Weekly reporter R. Scott Moxley published a cover story that took apart, paragraph by paragraph, the LA Times Business section’s February 13 profile of Irvine Company chairman and Orange County’s richest man, Donald Bren.…
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Guy Crowder, photographer of Black Los Angeles, dies at 72 — and the LA-press history he documented
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, November 2011 In late October 2011, photojournalist Guy Crowder died of pneumonia at 72, days after suffering a stroke. Crowder had photographed Black Los Angeles across decades starting in the early 1960s; despite his work, the LA Times, the Herald Examiner,…
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The 2011 LA Times APME public-service award for Bell — and what the broader investigation produced
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In mid-July 2011 the Associated Press Managing Editors association announced its annual awards, and the LA Times picked up two major honors — the Public Service award for its Bell corruption investigation and a First Amendment honor for the “Grading the…