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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, May 29, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A short, dense week in LA media. The story that animated Town in May – what happens to public radio after the federal money turns off – moved from theory to memo this week, with NPR taking a knife to its own newsroom. The Croisette wrapped with a familiar name on the…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, April 24, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff Catching up on April: a fortnight that belonged to the next generation of LA journalists — with a couple of dial changes in Santa Monica and a very large book party in between. A USC student’s newsletter quietly built an audience of 12,000 The most interesting LA media startup of the month…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, March 13, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff The Week in LA Media is catching up. Before the franchise settles into its Friday rhythm, here’s a look back at a stretch that was rough on the city’s television and public-radio newsrooms — and, improbably, kind to its independent press. KTLA loses a generation of on-air talent In late February, KTLA…
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November 2012: Elvis Mitchell, Joaquin Phoenix, and the ‘utter BS’ awards-season interview
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Mona Zhang on FishbowlLA, November 2012 In late November 2012, FishbowlLA covered the fallout from Joaquin Phoenix’s October 2012 Interview magazine conversation with film curator and KCRW host Elvis Mitchell — the interview in which Phoenix called the awards season “total, utter bullshit.” The original…
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October 2010: Juan Williams, fired by NPR, lands a Fox News deal within a day
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, October 2010 In late October 2010, FishbowlLA covered the rapid aftermath of one of the year’s biggest public-radio controversies: NPR had fired news analyst Juan Williams over remarks about feeling nervous seeing travelers in traditional Muslim clothing — and within a…
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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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Jim Carroll’s 2013 Irish Times column on KCRW — and the international public-radio music-discovery model
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2013 In late March 2013, Irish Times music writer Jim Carroll published a column in praise of KCRW and the broader public-radio music-discovery model. The column landed in front of KCRW general manager Jennifer Ferro and the rest of the…
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NPR’s 2013 ‘Coffee Week’ profile of The ESPRESSO — and the SoCal cafe-culture argument about Wi-Fi
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2013 In late April 2013, NPR’s The Salt food blog ran a profile of John A. Rippo, publisher of the San Diego monthly The ESPRESSO and its companion daily website. The piece was part of NPR’s themed “Coffee Week” —…
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Harry Shearer’s KCRW exit — the 2013 Le Show interview with Mike Roe at KPCC
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In mid-April 2013, KCRW’s Le Show host Harry Shearer talked publicly about being downsized at KCRW — speaking with KPCC’s Mike Roe on the Without a Net podcast about the end of his long-running tenure at the Santa Monica public-radio station.…
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Animal Radio’s Davy Jones final-interview re-air — a 2012 obit-in-broadcast format
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In late December 2012, syndicated weekly Animal Radio announced it would re-air its final interview with Davy Jones — the Monkees frontman who had died in February 2012 of a heart attack at 66. The interview had been one of the…