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Dennis Romero on the 2011 ASNE diversity survey — and what fifteen years of newsroom-diversity tracking shows
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In early April 2011, LA Weekly Informer blogger Dennis Romero — known publicly as The Informer — broke down the American Society of News Editors’ third annual newsroom-diversity survey. The headline finding: minority numbers were plunging for the third year in…
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FishbowlLA’s own editor sits for an Editor & Publisher Q&A
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, 2011 In March 2011 the FishbowlLA editor turned the lens around, noting that she herself had been the subject of an Editor & Publisher interview — a small, knowing bit of media-covering-media. Then The post pointed readers to a Q&A by…
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The LA Business Journal does the math on Janice Min’s glossy Hollywood Reporter
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 A year into Janice Min’s reinvention of The Hollywood Reporter as a glossy weekly, the LA Business Journal ran the numbers — and FishbowlLA passed along the ones that mattered. Then The piece was written by Greg Hernandez, a former…
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The Hollywood Reporter’s owner denies a New York Post sale story
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 In March 2011 The Hollywood Reporter’s parent company moved to quash a story that one of its backers wanted out — a denial that the following years would complicate. Then A New York Post story by Claire Atkinson reported that,…
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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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When Nikki Finke replied to THR’s lawyers — and the trade war went legal
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In the fall of 2011 the Variety / Deadline / Hollywood Reporter rivalry stopped being a column-mention skirmish and became a federal lawsuit. The opening salvo of the public phase was Nikki Finke posting her unredacted email response to Prometheus Global…
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The #MooreandMe Twitter pile-on — and what it told us about a platform that no longer exists
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2010) · Wayback archive → Before “platform pile-on” was a fixed phrase and before X stopped being Twitter, the December 2010 #MooreandMe campaign was the genre’s prototype: a hashtag aimed at two cable-left celebrities, a refusal to let them off the hook, and a public figure…
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The Hollywood Reporter brings in a Variety veteran as associate publisher
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2010 The Hollywood Reporter’s 2010 reinvention was not only an editorial project. It was a business one — and that meant hiring on the sales side, too. Then In December 2010, FishbowlLA reported that Variety veteran Craig Hitchcock had signed on…
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David Macaray’s 2010 ‘replacement worker’ essay — and the strike-coverage vocabulary fight
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In late November 2010, LA playwright and former union representative David Macaray published a Dissident Voice essay arguing that the term “replacement worker” — the media-neutral phrasing for someone hired to do a striking employee’s job — was a deliberate vocabulary-shift…