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Carol Muske-Dukes’s October 2012 HuffPost defense of Patt Morrison — and how the KPCC schedule shuffle played
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, October 2012 In late October 2012, USC English-and-creative-writing professor Carol Muske-Dukes — a former California poet laureate — published a Huffington Post column taking KPCC 89.3 management to task for the way they had treated Patt Morrison. The Pulitzer-winning broadcaster and…
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Goldman Sachs sells its Village Voice Media stake — Nicholas Kristof, Backpage, and the April 2012 divestment
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In early April 2012, Goldman Sachs sold its 16% stake in Village Voice Media — the parent of LA Weekly, OC Weekly, and the broader VMG newspaper portfolio, plus the substantially more controversial Backpage classified-ads site. The divestment came…
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A TV director’s satirical answer to Kim Dotcom
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In July 2012, as the Megaupload case ground on, FishbowlLA highlighted a working filmmaker’s wry rebuttal to Kim Dotcom’s overtures to Hollywood. Then Kim Dotcom had published a conciliatory July 17 open letter in The Hollywood Reporter. Writer-director Bruce Leddy…
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THR’s 2012 Skype interview with Kim Dotcom — and the 13-year extradition fight that followed
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In July 2012 The Hollywood Reporter senior writer Daniel Miller landed a Skype interview with Kim Dotcom from New Zealand, days after a court postponement of his U.S. extradition hearing. Dotcom called the January 2012 raid on his Auckland mansion “an…
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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…