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July 2007: Jacob Bernstein’s WWD profile of Nikki Finke, and the synchronized blog pickup
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Kate Coe on FishbowlLA, July 2007 In mid-July 2007, FishbowlLA noticed something curious: a Jacob Bernstein profile of Nikki Finke in Women’s Wear Daily was suddenly being discussed across multiple LA-media blogs the same weekend. FBLA had received an email from a “high-powered PR type”…
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Andrew Horan rises from cub reporter to A1 editor at the Orange County Register
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Greg on FishbowlLA, 2007 In 2007, the Orange County Register was reshuffling its newsroom — and one promotion captured both a career and a paper in flux. Then FishbowlLA reported that Andrew Horan had been named A1 editor of the Orange County Register — the…
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Luke Thompson on Jim Rainey covering the LA Times — the recursive-reporting era
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Kate Coe (2007) · Wayback archive → In mid-February 2007 LA Weekly freelancer Luke Thompson took a hard look at the LA Times’ Jim Rainey, the paper’s media reporter who had drawn the unenviable assignment of covering Tribune Company’s ongoing woes — including, awkwardly, its impact on his…
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The 2006 LA Times Spring Street Project memo — read it now and weep, or read it now and learn
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Mayrav Saar (2006) · Wayback archive → The single most clarifying document about what happened to the Los Angeles Times across the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s is the seven-page internal memo a committee of Times journalists handed to incoming editor James O’Shea on December 1, 2006. FishbowlLA published…