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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, October 2, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff Two courtrooms decided a good deal of this town’s media future in the space of 24 hours. On Wednesday a federal judge signed off on the deal that lets Paramount swallow Warner Bros. Discovery. On Thursday another one threw out the lawsuit in which the owner of Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, September 25, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff One story ate the week. On Monday the State of California cut a deal with Paramount Skydance that clears the way for it to swallow Warner Bros. Discovery — and, in the fine print, bars the studio from packing up its Southern California lots. By Thursday a federal judge had declined to…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, July 3, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff Going into the long holiday weekend, the LA media story wasn’t at a newspaper or a studio — it was on the radio dial. iHeartMedia spent the week swinging the axe across its 800-plus stations, the May ratings book landed with the first hard numbers on the KNX simulcast split, and the…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, June 26, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A one-week sweep, June 19 through 26, and the through-line is money — who isn’t paying it, who’s about to lose it, and who’s handing out trophies for the work that survives anyway. The paper of record stands accused of stiffing its own stars, Los Angeles County put a number on the…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, June 19, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A two-week haul this time around — we held last Friday for lack of pinned-down material, so this issue sweeps June 6 through 19. It was a fortnight defined by power: a utility taking aim at the city’s paper of record, a studio megamerger clearing Washington with only Sacramento left in its…
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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…