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The Hollywood Reporter rolls out a fashion blog
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 In October 2011 The Hollywood Reporter launched a fashion column — another sign of how central red-carpet style had become to the entertainment-trade business. Then THR announced ‘FASHtrack,’ a print and online fashion column. FishbowlLA, in its way, led with…
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The day PMC filed the copyright lawsuit against Prometheus — September 14, 2011
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → On September 14, 2011, five days after Nikki Finke’s notorious “SCOLDJA” email response to Prometheus Global Media’s lawyers ran on Deadline, Penske Media Corporation filed its copyright infringement complaint in U.S. District Court. Then The complaint’s headline allegation was about web…
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Section 34 — what PMC’s THR lawsuit actually alleged, and how the case ended
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → The headline charge of Penske Media Corporation’s September 2011 lawsuit against Prometheus Global Media was about TVLine and HollywoodReporter.com having suspiciously similar templates. The actual document was 30 paragraphs longer and aimed at something different: a numbered list of stories THR…
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When Tribune’s 2011 consolidation skipped the LA Times — the seven-year-long sale signal
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In mid-July 2011 Tribune Company announced a major consolidation of its publishing division — folding the Sun Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel, Baltimore Sun, Hartford Courant, The Morning Call, and the Virginia Daily Press under a single new CEO based in Chicago. Conspicuously…
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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…