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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…
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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…