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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…
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May 2012: AOL narrows Arianna Huffington’s portfolio back to HuffPost
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, May 2012 In early May 2012, AOL announced that Arianna Huffington’s editorial portfolio — which had since the February 2011 $315 million Huffington Post acquisition included Patch, MovieFone, PopEater, and TechCrunch — was being narrowed back to just the Huffington Post.…
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When Deadline’s Mike Fleming moonlighted as Playboy’s celebrity interviewer
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 Long before he became one of the most-cited bylines in Hollywood deal coverage, Mike Fleming had a side gig: he conducted the marquee Q&A for Playboy. In 2012 FishbowlLA noted that the Deadline editor was still keeping that tradition alive,…
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When Entertainment Weekly trimmed a Jennifer Love Hewitt ad
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 A small FishbowlLA visual catch from April 2012: the same Lifetime ad campaign appeared in two magazines — and the two versions were not quite the same. Then The post set up a side-by-side. The back cover of The Hollywood…
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HuffPost consolidates its BlackVoices and LatinoVoices desks under one editor
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2012 In early 2012, a small reshuffle at The Huffington Post hinted at how the site was managing its fast-growing identity verticals. Then FishbowlLA, citing Richard Prince’s column at the Maynard Institute, reported a personnel change at the top of HuffPost’s…
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The AP signs on to distribute Hollywood Reporter and Billboard stories
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 A February 2012 deal item: the Associated Press agreed to carry entertainment content from Prometheus Global Media’s two flagship titles, giving The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard a path to a far larger audience. Then FishbowlLA framed the news competitively. TheWrap…
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THR’s 2012 Russian edition — and the international franchise model that the geopolitical map redrew
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In mid-January 2012 The Hollywood Reporter announced it was launching a Russian-language monthly print edition in March, with a companion website at thehollywoodreporter.ru. The launch was the third foreign-language THR property under Janice Min — following the path Billboard had pioneered…