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Nancie Clare and Rip Georges launch Noir Magazine — the 2012 tablet-only bet
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2012) · Wayback archive → In early September 2012 — three months after LA Times Magazine was shut down and they lost their jobs — Nancie Clare and Rip Georges announced Noir Magazine, a new tablet-only publication covering the mystery, thriller, and true-crime genres across books,…
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Dorothy Lucey’s June 2012 KTLA reunion with Sam Rubin — after the Good Day LA exit
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, June 2012 In early June 2012, Dorothy Lucey appeared on KTLA’s Morning News alongside longtime entertainment reporter Sam Rubin — about a week after she had been let go from Good Day LA after 17 years. The reunion was at Sunset…
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Goldman Sachs sells its Village Voice Media stake — Nicholas Kristof, Backpage, and the April 2012 divestment
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In early April 2012, Goldman Sachs sold its 16% stake in Village Voice Media — the parent of LA Weekly, OC Weekly, and the broader VMG newspaper portfolio, plus the substantially more controversial Backpage classified-ads site. The divestment came…
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Helen Gurley Brown dies at 90 — and the Cosmo legacy at the 60-year mark
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2012) · Wayback archive → In mid-August 2012, Helen Gurley Brown — the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and the author of the 1962 best-seller Sex and the Single Girl — died at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital at age 90. The Los Angeles connection — Brown was an…
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VFX Soldier breaks anonymity — the 2012 interview and what happened to the union push
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In late July 2012, the anonymous entertainment-industry blogger VFX Soldier gave a long interview to electrician-and-organizer Bob Oedy at VFX Success. Eight months later, the broader VFX-industry crisis the interview was warning about exploded into public view. Then VFX Soldier’s two…
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The KCBS newsroom-cat story — Dorothy Lucey, Michael Horowicz, and the Columbia Square rodent fix
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, September 2012 In early September 2012, FishbowlLA caught a second wave of reaction to former Good Day LA anchor Dorothy Lucey’s blog launch. A previous-day Lucey-coverage piece had prompted longtime KCBS producer Michael Horowicz to share a story from the early…
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Moebius (Jean Giraud) dies at 73 — and the Hollywood lineage of his visual influence
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, March 2012 In mid-March 2012, the French graphic artist Jean Giraud — better known by his pen name Moebius — died at 73 after a long battle with cancer. The LA Times’s obituary led the coverage; FishbowlLA picked up the piece…
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Sharon Waxman’s 2012 ‘ugly THR picture’ — and Janice Min’s response
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In early July 2012, with Richard Beckman exiting Prometheus Global Media and Dottie Mattison taking over the THR-and-Billboard parent company, TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman ran a piece painting an ugly behind-the-scenes picture at the trade publication. Janice Min responded publicly. Then Waxman’s…
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TheWrap questions the Hollywood Reporter’s finances; Janice Min responds
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In July 2012 TheWrap put hard numbers on a question the trade press preferred to leave vague: was the relaunched, glossy Hollywood Reporter actually making money? Then With Richard Beckman exiting Prometheus Global Media and Dottie Mattison replacing him, TheWrap’s…
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Dan Abrams fires back at a Hollywood Reporter legal item
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In July 2012 FishbowlLA refereed a pointed dispute between two media operations — The Hollywood Reporter’s legal desk and Dan Abrams’s Mediaite — over how a story about a lawsuit had been reported. Then The trigger was a Hollywood Reporter…