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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, May 15, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff Catching up to the present: the first half of May was awards season for the people who cover everyone else. LA journalism shows up on the 2026 Pulitzer list The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes brought some Los Angeles recognition. LA Taco — the scrappy independent food, culture and news site — landed a…
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July 2011: a Hollywood Reporter parent-company CEO denies his days are numbered
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, July 2011 In late July 2011, FishbowlLA covered a piece of trade-press inside baseball: a reported internal memo at Prometheus Global Media — parent of The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek, and Billboard — said CEO Richard Beckman was giving up day-to-day duties,…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, April 24, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff Catching up on April: a fortnight that belonged to the next generation of LA journalists — with a couple of dial changes in Santa Monica and a very large book party in between. A USC student’s newsletter quietly built an audience of 12,000 The most interesting LA media startup of the month…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, April 3, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A catch-up edition covering the back half of March: press freedom on the streets of downtown, the book festival gearing up, and the LA Times inching a little closer to Wall Street. A journalist gets kettled covering LA’s ‘No Kings’ protest Press-freedom monitors flagged Los Angeles again. On March 28, independent journalist…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, March 13, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff The Week in LA Media is catching up. Before the franchise settles into its Friday rhythm, here’s a look back at a stretch that was rough on the city’s television and public-radio newsrooms — and, improbably, kind to its independent press. KTLA loses a generation of on-air talent In late February, KTLA…
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April 2012: a tale of two magazine ads for ‘The Client List’
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In early April 2012, FishbowlLA noticed something about the back-cover ads for Lifetime’s new series The Client List: the same campaign, placed in two different magazines, appeared to have been retouched differently. The original framing was a light catch…
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March 2013: a Yahoo Movies GM moves over to The Hollywood Reporter
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2013 In mid-March 2013, FishbowlLA covered Sean Phillips — a Yahoo Movies general manager and editor-in-chief — moving over to The Hollywood Reporter, joining the trade’s film team alongside Gregg Kilday, Alex Ben Block, Borys Kit, and the rest of…
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May 2012: a Zócalo Public Square editor grumbles about the Clooney-Obama fundraiser ‘Starmageddon’
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2012 In mid-May 2012, FishbowlLA covered Zócalo Public Square editor Joe Mathews grumbling about the LA traffic that a George Clooney-hosted Studio City fundraiser for President Obama would cause — a “Starmageddon,” in the framing of the moment. The original…
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Maia Lazar curates the legacy of her mother, LA journalist Cathy Seipp — December 2010
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In late December 2010, FishbowlLA covered Maia Lazar — the 21-year-old daughter of the late LA freelance journalist Cathy Seipp — and her work that holiday season curating and continuing her mother’s journalistic legacy. The original framing tracked the…
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January 2013: Tony Ortega breaks down the Lawrence Wright Scientology book excerpts
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2013 In early January 2013, FishbowlLA covered Tony Ortega’s response to two excerpts of Lawrence Wright’s forthcoming Scientology book, published in The Hollywood Reporter. The original framing tracked a small node in the dense, interlinked Scientology-journalism ecosystem of the moment.…