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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…
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Fernando Dominguez watches his son Matt’s MLB debut — and what came after
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, September 2011 In mid-September 2011, LA Times sports-desk copy editor Fernando Dominguez flew to Miami to watch his son Matt make his Major League Baseball debut with the Florida Marlins. Matt Dominguez had been a Chatsworth High School star and a…
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Has Nikki Finke gone soft? Patrick Goldstein asks
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 In May 2011 FishbowlLA flagged a Patrick Goldstein column asking whether Deadline’s Nikki Finke had lost her edge after being acquired. Then The LA Times’s Patrick Goldstein — by then sharing his beat with colleague James Rainey and writing for…
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Terry McGarry dies at 72 — and the long-tenured editor class the LA Times no longer produces
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In late April 2011, LA Times reporter Andrew Blankstein tweeted out the news that former Times editor Terry McGarry had died at 72. The paper published its own obit the same day. Then McGarry had spent the bulk of his career…
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Steve Lopez vs Alexander Marlow on Hamilton High — a 2011 LAUSD column dispute
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In April 2011 a Big Journalism contributor named Alexander Marlow published a sharp rebuttal of an LA Times column by Steve Lopez that had focused on teacher layoffs at Alexander Hamilton High School in Beverlywood, an LAUSD high school with two…
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Ashley Dunn becomes LA Times’ California editor — the appointment that produced the ‘we give ulcers’ memo
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In late March 2011 LA Times editor Russ Stanton named Ashley Dunn the paper’s new California editor, replacing David Lauter — who had moved to become Tribune Company’s Washington bureau chief. Four months later Dunn would be the editor sending the…
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Louis B. Fleming, an original LA Times foreign correspondent, dies at 85
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 The Los Angeles Times built its mid-century reputation partly on an ambitious foreign desk. Louis B. Fleming helped build it. Then In March 2011, FishbowlLA marked the death of Louis B. Fleming, one of the Los Angeles Times’ original foreign…
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The LA Times publisher takes the stand in the Tribune bankruptcy
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 In March 2011 FishbowlLA parsed a piece of bankruptcy-court testimony from the LA Times publisher — and read a warning between its lines. Then LA Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein took the stand in the Tribune Company bankruptcy trial. FishbowlLA, working…