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January 2013: KTLA’s Elizabeth Espinosa adds CNN Latino duties
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2013 In mid-January 2013, FishbowlLA covered KTLA weekend news anchor Elizabeth Espinosa taking on a new sideline: fronting Sin Límites, a Spanish-language weekday news magazine produced by CNN Latino, airing locally on KBEH-DT Channel 63. The original framing treated the…
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March 2011: FishbowlLA’s own editor Tina Dupuy gets the Editor & Publisher treatment
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, March 2011 In late March 2011, FishbowlLA ran a small, self-referential item: its own editor, Tina Dupuy, had been interviewed by Editor & Publisher — the venerable newspaper-trade magazine — about her syndicated weekly column. The original framing was lightly winking,…
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August 2011: a report that CAA was eyeing a Silicon Valley office
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, August 2011 In late August 2011, FishbowlLA picked up a Peter Lauria report — Lauria was then Thomson Reuters’s editor-in-charge of technology, media, and telecom — on the possibility that Creative Artists Agency was looking to open a small office in…
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January 2013: THR’s parent company becomes Guggenheim Digital Media, with Ross Levinsohn at the helm
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2013 In mid-January 2013, FishbowlLA covered a corporate rebrand: The Hollywood Reporter’s parent company, Prometheus Global Media, was getting a new name — Guggenheim Digital Media — and a new leader, former Yahoo and Fox Interactive Media executive Ross Levinsohn.…
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Mediabistro’s post-Oscars Google+ Hangout — February 2013, and a platform that didn’t last
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2013 In late February 2013, FishbowlLA promoted a Mediabistro post-Oscars Google+ Hangout — a live video discussion of the 85th Academy Awards. The piece previewed the big questions: could Emmanuelle Riva, the oldest Best Actress nominee in Academy history, upset…
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Courtney Friel says goodbye to FOX 11 — February 2013, after six years at KTTV
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2013 In mid-February 2013, FishbowlLA covered entertainment reporter Courtney Friel’s farewell to FOX 11 (KTTV) after six years with the LA station and its sister network. Friel told FBLA her first priority was some quiet weekend time at home with…
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March 2013: San Diego’s Doug Porter on the Koch-Manchester-Tribune buyout rumors
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2013 In mid-March 2013, FishbowlLA tracked San Diego Free Press columnist Doug Porter’s skeptical reaction to the swirling rumors that the Koch brothers — possibly in partnership with San Diego U-T owner Doug Manchester — might buy the Tribune Company’s…
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Mary Thom dies, HuffPost Live goes cable, AOL Music axed — Morning Media Newsfeed for April 29, 2013
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Donya Blaze on FishbowlLA, April 2013 On April 29, 2013, FishbowlLA ran one of its Morning Media Newsfeed roundups. The lead story was the death of Mary Thom, the longtime Ms. magazine editor, who had died at 68 in an upstate New York motorcycle accident.…
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Araksya Karapetyan’s May 2013 FOX 11 Morning News promotion — the KFI-to-FOX 11 LA-broadcast lane
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2013 In mid-May 2013, FOX 11 LA promoted Araksya Karapetyan to full-time anchor on its Morning News broadcast. Karapetyan had started her broadcast career while at the Newhouse School at Syracuse, interning at LA’s KFI AM 640 and KABC-TV; she…
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PMC and Prometheus settle the Deadline/THR copyright suit — and the road to the eventual THR acquisition
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late March 2013, PMC and Prometheus Global Media settled the 2011 copyright-infringement lawsuit that had defined the public-facing posture of the Deadline-vs-THR rivalry for 18 months. Jay Penske’s company announced the deal at the close of a busy week that…