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Harrison Cheung’s Christian Bale biography — July 2012, the Manhattan Beach Barnes & Noble homecoming
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, July 2012 In mid-July 2012, FishbowlLA covered Harrison Cheung’s return to his Manhattan Beach stomping grounds for a Barnes & Noble appearance promoting his Christian Bale biography. Cheung had spent 1992 to 2002 working closely with Bale’s pre-Batman career. Then Harrison…
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Miles Corwin’s second Ash Levine novel — May 2012, the crime reporter turned LAPD novelist
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2012 In late May 2012, FishbowlLA tracked an Orange County Register write-up of Miles Corwin’s new novel Midnight Alley — the second in his Ash Levine detective series. Corwin, a former longtime LA Times crime reporter who had become a…
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When Sam Rubin’s Twitter got hacked — July 2012, KTLA, and the Gawker pile-on
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, July 2012 In early July 2012, KTLA entertainment reporter Sam Rubin’s Twitter account was hacked over a weekend — and the situation produced an unusual secondary story when Gawker’s Louis Peitzman read something darker into Rubin’s hacked feed even after Rubin…
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November 2012: Tribune Company set to receive critical FCC cross-ownership waivers
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, November 2012 In mid-November 2012, FishbowlLA picked up an LA Times report by DC reporter Jim Puzzanghera: the FCC was set to grant the Tribune Company a set of critical media-cross-ownership waivers — letting Tribune emerge from bankruptcy with its newspaper-and-television…
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Stephen Randall’s 2012 LA Times op-ed on the Variety-Deadline ‘love match’ — read in hindsight
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In mid-October 2012, Playboy deputy editor Stephen Randall wrote a humorous LA Times op-ed about the just-closed PMC-Variety acquisition, framing it as a love match between the two trade properties. The piece was lightly satirical. Six months later, half of the…
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The day PMC bought Variety — and Nikki Finke didn’t get to run it
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2012) · Wayback archive → In early October 2012, PMC’s acquisition of Variety from Reed Elsevier was announced. Jay Penske told the LA Times immediately that Nikki Finke would not be involved in running Variety, and that the publication would be operated separately from Deadline.com, though…
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The September 2012 Deadline ‘no 24/7 news’ advisory — and the PMC-Variety deal it telegraphed
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → On the Saturday morning of September 29, 2012, Nikki Finke posted a cryptic Deadline advisory: the team wouldn’t provide 24/7 news coverage for at least a week because of “DH business affecting the entire staff in LA, NY and Europe.” Hollywood…
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James Rainey leaves the LA Times media column for the politics desk — July 2012
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, July 2012 In late July 2012, LA Times media reporter James Rainey announced he was switching beats to politics ahead of the 2012 election cycle. He would be giving up his media column to contribute to the Times’s political blog Politics…
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Joseph Kapsch’s April 2012 jump from THR to Celebuzz — and the Dylan Howard reunion
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In late April 2012, Hollywood Reporter writer Joseph Kapsch announced he was leaving THR.com to join Celebuzz.com as executive editor under Dylan Howard. Then Dylan Howard had been one of the most-active editorial figures in American celebrity-news through the…
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Rebecca Schoenkopf vs. Dennis Romero — March 2012 Twitter spat between Wonkette and LA Weekly
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, March 2012 In late March 2012, Wonkette’s editor and new owner Rebecca Schoenkopf got into a high-profile Twitter feud with LA Weekly staff reporter Dennis Romero. The proximate trigger was a grammatical-error tweet that escalated into an extended public exchange. Then…