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The Huffington Post Investigative Fund’s May 2009 launch — Lawrence Roberts, Nick Penniman, and the nonprofit-investigative model
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, May 2009 In late May 2009, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund announced that Lawrence Roberts — the Washington Post’s Investigations Editor — would join as the Fund’s Executive Editor. Arianna Huffington chaired the Fund’s Advisory Board; Nick Penniman was the Executive…
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The L.A. Press Club’s entertainment-journalism awards, circa 2009
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, 2009 A short, characteristically wry FishbowlLA post from January 2009 flagged a closing entry deadline — and gently needled the Los Angeles Press Club for leaving the blog off its mailing list. Then The notice was a public-service item with an…
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Fox Searchlight sent cease-and-desists over leaked Jennifer’s Body script reviews. The movie got reappraised anyway.
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Kate Coe (2008) · Wayback archive → Fox Searchlight’s legal department spent early 2008 firing cease-and-desist letters at blogs running unauthorized reviews of Diablo Cody’s then-unfilmed Jennifer’s Body script. The strategy worked at suppressing pre-release commentary. It didn’t help the movie when it actually came out. And the…
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Anita Busch confronts Anthony Pellicano at his December 2008 sentencing — the wiretapping case in court
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Dan Cox on FishbowlLA, December 2008 In mid-December 2008, former LA Times journalist Anita Busch addressed Anthony Pellicano at his federal sentencing for wiretapping, wire fraud, and racketeering. Busch had been a primary target of Pellicano’s surveillance operation, including the notorious 2002 fish-and-bullet-hole-in-windshield episode at…