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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…
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When the NYT public editor responded to Geoff Mohan’s LA Times rebuttal letter
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In late January 2011, the New York Times had just run a piece characterizing the LA Times’ struggles, and LA Times editor Geoffrey Mohan had written back hard — calling the piece “a dagger in the backs of good journalists who…
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Daniel Hernandez’s Mexico City book lands — and the decade-long path of LA journos south
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In late January 2011, former LA Weekly staff writer Daniel Hernandez announced the impending release of his Scribner book Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the 21st Century. Three years of fieldwork in the Distrito Federal had…
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When LA Weekly’s Mike Penner / Christine Daniels story was on the GLAAD list
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → Every January the GLAAD Media Awards nominations roll out, and every January most outlets cover the film and TV slates and skip the print ones. The 2011 list is worth revisiting because the Los Angeles entries on it are a small…