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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, May 15, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff Catching up to the present: the first half of May was awards season for the people who cover everyone else. LA journalism shows up on the 2026 Pulitzer list The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes brought some Los Angeles recognition. LA Taco — the scrappy independent food, culture and news site — landed a…
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July 2012: a TV director answers Kim Dotcom’s open letter to Hollywood
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, July 2012 In late July 2012, FishbowlLA covered a satirical exchange in The Hollywood Reporter: TV writer-director Bruce Leddy had published a tongue-in-cheek response to Kim Dotcom’s open letter to Hollywood. The original framing noted that, video piracy being no laughing…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, April 3, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A catch-up edition covering the back half of March: press freedom on the streets of downtown, the book festival gearing up, and the LA Times inching a little closer to Wall Street. A journalist gets kettled covering LA’s ‘No Kings’ protest Press-freedom monitors flagged Los Angeles again. On March 28, independent journalist…
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October 2010: Juan Williams, fired by NPR, lands a Fox News deal within a day
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, October 2010 In late October 2010, FishbowlLA covered the rapid aftermath of one of the year’s biggest public-radio controversies: NPR had fired news analyst Juan Williams over remarks about feeling nervous seeing travelers in traditional Muslim clothing — and within a…
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September 2010: an LA Times reporter faces a Berkeley panel over the paper’s teacher-evaluation series
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, September 2010 In late September 2010, FishbowlLA covered LA Times reporter Jason Felch sitting on a UC Berkeley panel to discuss the paper’s controversial series on teacher evaluations — and taking criticism in the wake of a teacher’s death. The original…
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January 2011: the Courtney Love Twitter-defamation trial and its forensics expert
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2011 In early January 2011, FishbowlLA previewed the upcoming defamation trial between Courtney Love and fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir — a case built around Love’s Twitter posts. The original framing noted that the guaranteed highlight had been expected to be…
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March 2013: San Diego’s Doug Porter on the Koch-Manchester-Tribune buyout rumors
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2013 In mid-March 2013, FishbowlLA tracked San Diego Free Press columnist Doug Porter’s skeptical reaction to the swirling rumors that the Koch brothers — possibly in partnership with San Diego U-T owner Doug Manchester — might buy the Tribune Company’s…
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Erin Aubry Kaplan’s January 2013 KCET column — a Leimert Park reader, an off-line phone call, and Black-LA-Times coverage
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2013 In early January 2013, Erin Aubry Kaplan’s first KCET blog post of the new year — published in KCET’s SoCal Focus commentary section — drew an unusual reader response: a 74-year-old Leimert Park grandmother named Ann did not Google…
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PMC and Prometheus settle the Deadline/THR copyright suit — and the road to the eventual THR acquisition
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late March 2013, PMC and Prometheus Global Media settled the 2011 copyright-infringement lawsuit that had defined the public-facing posture of the Deadline-vs-THR rivalry for 18 months. Jay Penske’s company announced the deal at the close of a busy week that…
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January 2012: a California prison bars an inmate from reading The Atlantic
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, January 2012 In mid-January 2012, FishbowlLA picked up a story — originally surfaced by sister blog FishbowlDC — about a California prison barring an inmate from reading the December 2011 issue of The Atlantic. The inmate, a woman serving a long…