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California Watch’s April 2011 ‘On Shaky Ground’ investigation — seismic-safety failure in California public schools
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2011 In early April 2011, California Watch — the state-focused project of the Center for Investigative Reporting — released the first installment of “On Shaky Ground,” a three-part, 19-month investigation into seismic safety at California public schools. The findings were…
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CPJ’s 2011 Impunity Index — Iraq, Mexico, and the documented unsolved-murders-of-journalists list
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, June 2011 In early June 2011, the Committee to Protect Journalists released its annual Impunity Index — the documented ranking of countries with the most unsolved murders of journalists. Iraq led with 92 unsolved cases; Mexico, the 8th-most-dangerous country, had 13…
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The October 2011 John and Ken boycott — KFI, Clear Channel, and immigrant-rights advocacy
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Marcus Vanderberg on FishbowlLA, October 2011 In early October 2011, an immigrant-rights coalition announced it was moving forward with a boycott of the John and Ken Show on KFI AM 640 after KFI management canceled a scheduled meeting between the coalition and station leadership. Greg…
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LAPD’s October 2011 social-media policy review — Detective Sal LaBarbera and the cops-on-Twitter question
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, October 2011 In mid-October 2011, FishbowlLA tracked the LAPD’s internal-policy struggle over what officers should and shouldn’t post on Twitter and other social media platforms. The trigger had been LAPD Homicide Detective Sal LaBarbera’s posting of a crime-scene photograph and related…
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R. Scott Moxley’s annotated takedown of the LA Times Donald Bren profile — February 2011
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2011 In late February 2011, OC Weekly reporter R. Scott Moxley published a cover story that took apart, paragraph by paragraph, the LA Times Business section’s February 13 profile of Irvine Company chairman and Orange County’s richest man, Donald Bren.…
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LAPD Chief Charlie Beck’s 2011 critique of LA media gang-coverage — the shallow-coverage thesis
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, October 2011 In early October 2011, at a panel discussion featuring criminologist David M. Kennedy and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, Beck delivered a sharp critique of LA media’s coverage of gang violence. His thesis was direct: “The coverage here in Los…
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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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FishbowlLA’s own editor sits for an Editor & Publisher Q&A
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, 2011 In March 2011 the FishbowlLA editor turned the lens around, noting that she herself had been the subject of an Editor & Publisher interview — a small, knowing bit of media-covering-media. Then The post pointed readers to a Q&A by…
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Roger Friedman points the thievery finger at Deadline
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 Aggregation without credit was a running sore in early-2010s online journalism. In January 2011 FishbowlLA caught columnist Roger Friedman naming names. Then Roger Friedman, the New York-based showbiz columnist behind Showbiz 411, had never been shy about calling out outlets…
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The LA Times editorial board on Manning at Quantico — and how the story ended
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In January 2011, the Los Angeles Times editorial board ran a piece calling attention to the detention conditions of the WikiLeaks source held at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. FishbowlLA’s pickup praised the editorial as belated but consequential. Then…