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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…
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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.…