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The LA Times publisher takes the stand in the Tribune bankruptcy
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 In March 2011 FishbowlLA parsed a piece of bankruptcy-court testimony from the LA Times publisher — and read a warning between its lines. Then LA Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein took the stand in the Tribune Company bankruptcy trial. FishbowlLA, working…
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When the NYT public editor responded to Geoff Mohan’s LA Times rebuttal letter
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In late January 2011, the New York Times had just run a piece characterizing the LA Times’ struggles, and LA Times editor Geoffrey Mohan had written back hard — calling the piece “a dagger in the backs of good journalists who…
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When Nikki Finke replied to THR’s lawyers — and the trade war went legal
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In the fall of 2011 the Variety / Deadline / Hollywood Reporter rivalry stopped being a column-mention skirmish and became a federal lawsuit. The opening salvo of the public phase was Nikki Finke posting her unredacted email response to Prometheus Global…
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The #MooreandMe Twitter pile-on — and what it told us about a platform that no longer exists
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2010) · Wayback archive → Before “platform pile-on” was a fixed phrase and before X stopped being Twitter, the December 2010 #MooreandMe campaign was the genre’s prototype: a hashtag aimed at two cable-left celebrities, a refusal to let them off the hook, and a public figure…
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The Hollywood Reporter brings in a Variety veteran as associate publisher
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2010 The Hollywood Reporter’s 2010 reinvention was not only an editorial project. It was a business one — and that meant hiring on the sales side, too. Then In December 2010, FishbowlLA reported that Variety veteran Craig Hitchcock had signed on…
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David Macaray’s 2010 ‘replacement worker’ essay — and the strike-coverage vocabulary fight
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In late November 2010, LA playwright and former union representative David Macaray published a Dissident Voice essay arguing that the term “replacement worker” — the media-neutral phrasing for someone hired to do a striking employee’s job — was a deliberate vocabulary-shift…
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Anthony Zuiker’s 2010 ‘digi-novel’ bet — and the format the streaming era replaced it with
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In November 2010, CSI franchise creator Anthony Zuiker gave FishbowlLA an exclusive interview about the next installments in his “digi-novel” trilogy. Level 26: Dark Origins (2009) had been the first attempt; Dark Prophecy was the new release. Then The digi-novel format…
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Michalene Busico’s 2010 move to Robb Report — and the long Spring Street Project diaspora
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2010) · Wayback archive → In late October 2010, CurtCo Media announced that Michalene Busico — formerly executive editor of Entrepreneur, deputy features editor of the LA Times, food editor of the New York Times for five years before that — was joining Robb Report as…
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Bill Carter’s October 2010 ‘War for Late Night’ — and the long arc of the Conan-Jay conflict
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, October 2010 In late October 2010 — only ten months after Conan O’Brien had been forced off NBC’s Tonight Show by the late-night-schedule rearrangement that returned Jay Leno to the post-11 p.m. slot — New York Times television writer Bill Carter’s…
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Denis Dutton, founder of Arts & Letters Daily — December 2010 obit and the durable link-curation legacy
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In late December 2010, philosophy professor Denis Dutton — founder of the link-curation site Arts & Letters Daily — died in New Zealand at 66. Dutton, who taught at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, was Los Angeles-born and…