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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, July 3, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff Going into the long holiday weekend, the LA media story wasn’t at a newspaper or a studio — it was on the radio dial. iHeartMedia spent the week swinging the axe across its 800-plus stations, the May ratings book landed with the first hard numbers on the KNX simulcast split, and the…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, June 26, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A one-week sweep, June 19 through 26, and the through-line is money — who isn’t paying it, who’s about to lose it, and who’s handing out trophies for the work that survives anyway. The paper of record stands accused of stiffing its own stars, Los Angeles County put a number on the…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, June 19, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A two-week haul this time around — we held last Friday for lack of pinned-down material, so this issue sweeps June 6 through 19. It was a fortnight defined by power: a utility taking aim at the city’s paper of record, a studio megamerger clearing Washington with only Sacramento left in its…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, June 5, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A week with David Ellison’s fingerprints all over it. The new Paramount Skydance regime spent the first days of June detonating “60 Minutes” on one coast and filing for permission to swallow Warner Bros. Discovery on another — two stories, one owner, and a whole lot of Angelenos wondering who they’ll be…
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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…