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February 2013: a report on former KABC anchor Anna Chavez’s retirement
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2013 In late February 2013, FishbowlLA picked up a Rich Lieberman report concerning the retirement of former KABC television news anchor Anna Chavez. Lieberman’s San Francisco-Bay-Area media blog had shared what the original FishbowlLA framing called a chastening bit of…
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May 2012: a Zócalo Public Square editor grumbles about the Clooney-Obama fundraiser ‘Starmageddon’
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2012 In mid-May 2012, FishbowlLA covered Zócalo Public Square editor Joe Mathews grumbling about the LA traffic that a George Clooney-hosted Studio City fundraiser for President Obama would cause — a “Starmageddon,” in the framing of the moment. The original…
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The 2012 Los Angeles Area Emmy winners — and the investigative reporting that took the prizes
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, August 2012 In mid-August 2012, FishbowlLA marked the 2012 Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards by spotlighting the winning investigative work — the Wi-Fi-hacking, small-claims-scamming, and HACLA-spending reports that took prizes. The original framing argued that the investigative categories were the best…
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When the Dorner manhunt landed in a KCRW producer’s front yard — February 2013
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2013 In mid-February 2013, during the LAPD’s manhunt for fugitive former officer Christopher Dorner, the search briefly landed at the Adams Hill neighborhood home of KCRW associate news producer Darrell Satzman. The original FishbowlLA framing captured the recursive cycle: an…
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Margie Carranza and Emma Hernandez get the $40K — the Dorner-era LAPD payout
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2013) · Wayback archive → In mid-March 2013 the LAPD agreed to pay Margie Carranza, 47, and her mother Emma Hernandez, 71 — the LA Times delivery drivers whose truck had been shot up by LAPD officers during the February 2013 hunt for Christopher Dorner —…
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Miles Corwin’s second Ash Levine novel — May 2012, the crime reporter turned LAPD novelist
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2012 In late May 2012, FishbowlLA tracked an Orange County Register write-up of Miles Corwin’s new novel Midnight Alley — the second in his Ash Levine detective series. Corwin, a former longtime LA Times crime reporter who had become a…
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January 2012: a California prison bars an inmate from reading The Atlantic
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, January 2012 In mid-January 2012, FishbowlLA picked up a story — originally surfaced by sister blog FishbowlDC — about a California prison barring an inmate from reading the December 2011 issue of The Atlantic. The inmate, a woman serving a long…
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Diana Munatones, broadcast journalist and former LAUSD spokesperson, dies at 66 — March 2012 obit
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, March 2012 In mid-March 2012, broadcast journalist and former LAUSD spokesperson Diana Munatones died at 66 of unspecified causes at Arcadia Methodist Hospital. The Bell Gardens Sun ran the most substantive obituary, framing her career as one of the trailblazing Latina…
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The 2012 LAPD reply-all email leak — and what the NBC LA bunny-trafficking story exposed
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2012 In early December 2012, NBC LA investigative reporter Ana Garcia ran a story on illegal animal-trafficking arrests in downtown LA. LAPD media-relations chief Robbi Peele then sent an internal email about the story that, through a reply-all chain, ended…
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Villaraigosa’s 2012 KPCC interview about his marriage — and the political fallout that followed
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, June 2012 In late June 2012, LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sat for a KPCC interview with senior online reporter Alice Walton in connection with a Loyola Marymount conversations-series event. Walton’s piece for KPCC included the mayor’s on-record answer to a question…