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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…
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Josh Dickey leaves Variety for TMZ — the March 2013 hire and the post-PMC trade exodus
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late March 2013, Variety film editor Josh Dickey — whose career FishbowlLA had been tracking for years — accepted the managing editor role at TMZ.com. Nikki Finke once again broke the Variety-internal news on Deadline. The exit fit a clear…
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When Deadline and Variety moved into the same Westwood high-rise — a March 2013 cohabitation
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In March 2013, PMC announced that Variety, Deadline, and its other web publications would soon be sharing the same Westwood high-rise at 11175 Santa Monica Boulevard. The Twitter wisecracks comparing it to a reality show were predictable. One floor of the…
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The year TMZ took its job interviews to SXSW
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2013 By 2013, TMZ had reshaped celebrity news. Its approach to hiring, it turned out, was just as unorthodox. Then In March 2013, FishbowlLA flagged a job listing that stood out from the usual Mediabistro postings. TMZ was searching for a…
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Finke breaks news of pending Variety layoffs — three months after the PMC deal closed
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late January 2013, Nikki Finke published a Deadline.com item announcing that PMC was planning Variety editorial firings in March. The story was unusual not because the layoffs were happening — that was widely expected — but because the breaking of…