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Ashton Kutcher’s July 2011 pressure campaign on Village Voice Media advertisers — and the Backpage backstory
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, July 2011 In early July 2011, Ashton Kutcher publicly pressured Village Voice Media’s national advertisers — naming Disney, Domino’s, Columbia University, and American Airlines on Twitter — to drop their advertising relationships with the company. The proximate cause was a Village…
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Guy Crowder, photographer of Black Los Angeles, dies at 72 — and the LA-press history he documented
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, November 2011 In late October 2011, photojournalist Guy Crowder died of pneumonia at 72, days after suffering a stroke. Crowder had photographed Black Los Angeles across decades starting in the early 1960s; despite his work, the LA Times, the Herald Examiner,…
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March 2011: Visual Art Source publisher’s HuffPost strike — the unpaid-blogger ethics fight that found its voice
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, March 2011 In early March 2011, Bill Lasarow — publisher and co-editor of the LA-based Visual Art Source website — declared a strike against the Huffington Post over the platform’s continuing reliance on unpaid bloggers and syndicated content. The original FishbowlLA…
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Shaun Lumachi dies at 33 — and the Long Beach Post he co-founded
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2011 In early December 2011, Long Beach Post co-founder and publisher Shaun Lumachi died at 33 in a Florida car crash. He had been in St. Petersburg attending the National Workforce Association’s conference. The Long Beach Post he had co-founded…
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David Carr’s 2011 NY Times praise for Janice Min — the early-cycle validation
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In late May 2011 — only ten months into Janice Min’s relaunch of The Hollywood Reporter — the New York Times’ David Carr ran a Media Equation column praising the editorial turnaround. The piece was the first major East-Coast-press validation of…
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AOL Daily Finance’s 2011 staff reboot — Peter Goodman, HuffPo, and a long arc
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In late May 2011 Peter Goodman — recently elevated to Executive Business Editor of the merged AOL Huffington Post Media Group — announced a substantial staff reboot at AOL Daily Finance. Then The AOL-HuffPo merger had closed in March 2011 for…
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Dennis Romero on the 2011 ASNE diversity survey — and what fifteen years of newsroom-diversity tracking shows
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In early April 2011, LA Weekly Informer blogger Dennis Romero — known publicly as The Informer — broke down the American Society of News Editors’ third annual newsroom-diversity survey. The headline finding: minority numbers were plunging for the third year in…
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FishbowlLA’s own editor sits for an Editor & Publisher Q&A
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, 2011 In March 2011 the FishbowlLA editor turned the lens around, noting that she herself had been the subject of an Editor & Publisher interview — a small, knowing bit of media-covering-media. Then The post pointed readers to a Q&A by…
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The LA Business Journal does the math on Janice Min’s glossy Hollywood Reporter
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 A year into Janice Min’s reinvention of The Hollywood Reporter as a glossy weekly, the LA Business Journal ran the numbers — and FishbowlLA passed along the ones that mattered. Then The piece was written by Greg Hernandez, a former…
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The Hollywood Reporter’s owner denies a New York Post sale story
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 In March 2011 The Hollywood Reporter’s parent company moved to quash a story that one of its backers wanted out — a denial that the following years would complicate. Then A New York Post story by Claire Atkinson reported that,…