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Ken Kobré’s ‘Deadline Every Second’ AP-photographer documentary
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In April 2012, San Francisco State University professor Ken Kobré released Deadline Every Second, a documentary about twelve Associated Press photojournalists — including SoCal staffer Chris Carlson — capturing news from national and international hot spots. Then Kobré had been a…
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Eriq Gardner’s 2012 promotion to THR senior editor — and the Hollywood, Esq. franchise
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In early April 2012 The Hollywood Reporter promoted Eriq Gardner — the prolific contributor behind THR’s Hollywood, Esq. legal column — to the full-time senior editor role, partly to fill the New York gap created by Georg Szalai’s move to London.…
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How Deadline got caught by a Prometheus April Fools’ joke
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 April 1 is a hazard for fast-moving trade reporters, and in 2012 FishbowlLA caught Deadline.com failing the test — then declining to admit it cleanly. Then The prank originated at worstpreviews.com, in a fake item claiming James Cameron wanted to…
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Tracy Clark-Flory’s 2012 Salon subpoena — and the federal obscenity case that ended it
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2012) · Wayback archive → In late February 2012, Salon reporter Tracy Clark-Flory received a federal subpoena to testify in a Los Angeles federal obscenity trial — based on a year-old Q&A she had conducted with the adult filmmaker Ira Isaacs. She wrote about getting the…
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New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid dies on assignment in Syria
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2012 In February 2012 FishbowlLA marked the loss of one of the finest foreign correspondents of his generation, dead at 43 while reporting inside Syria. Then Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter, died of an asthma attack while…
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Anthony Shadid dies in Syria — and what his loss told us about foreign-correspondent risk
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2012) · Wayback archive → In mid-February 2012, Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid died of an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria. He was 43. Then Shadid had won two Pulitzers for his Middle East reporting and had been at the New…
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June 2011: David Poland takes on Nikki Finke over the Lynne Segall post
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, June 2011 In mid-June 2011, FishbowlLA tracked a public clash between Movie City News writer David Poland and Deadline.com’s Nikki Finke. Finke had published a lengthy post slamming outgoing media executive Lynne Segall, accusing her of an assortment of unethical behavior…
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Ruben Vives and Jeff Gottlieb win the 2011 Selden Ring Award — LA Times’s Bell corruption investigation
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, February 2011 In late February 2011, LA Times reporters Ruben Vives and Jeff Gottlieb were announced as winners of the 2011 Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting — recognizing their work breaking the story of outrageous city-official salaries in Bell, California.…
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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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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…