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Localore lands at KCRW and KQED — the 2012 AIR demonstration project and what it modeled
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2012 In late January 2012 the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) announced the ten producers it was placing at host stations across the country for Localore — its demonstration project aimed at fostering 21st-century public-radio reporting. Three of the…
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KCRW’s Unfictional revisits Whitey Bulger’s quiet Santa Monica years — Gideon Brower’s 2012 documentary
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, June 2012 In late June 2012, Gideon Brower’s half-hour radio documentary The Couple in 303 debuted on KCRW’s Unfictional. The piece was about the experiences of the neighbors at the Princess Eugenia apartments in Santa Monica — the building where James…
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Russ Stanton, just out as LA Times editor, takes over content at KPCC
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, 2012 In early 2012, one of the more consequential career moves in Los Angeles journalism arrived with a quiet headline: a newspaper editor crossing into public radio. Then Just one month after stepping down as editor of the Los Angeles Times,…
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April 2011: Elvis Mitchell leaves Movieline, and fellow journalists place their bets
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2011 In late April 2011, FishbowlLA tracked Elvis Mitchell’s latest career shuffle — his termination as chief film critic of Movieline.com. The original FishbowlLA framing noted that fellow journalists were “placing their bets” on the mercurial critic’s next move. Then…
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November 2011: KPCC hires Tami Abdollah for the education beat
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, November 2011 In mid-November 2011, FishbowlLA covered KPCC’s hiring of former LA Times staff writer Tami Abdollah as the public-radio station’s education writer. The hire was made by Tony Pierce. The original FishbowlLA framing tracked the LA-Times-to-KPCC reporter migration. Then The…
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Jim Ladd lands at SiriusXM Deep Tracks — December 2011, after the KLOS-and-KFI farewell
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2011 In early December 2011, longtime LA classic-rock DJ Jim Ladd — who had been unceremoniously dumped from KLOS 95.5 earlier in the year and then given a farewell show by KFI AM 640 — landed a nightly slot on…
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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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Adam Klugman’s January 2011 Treason workshop — and the Klugman family arc across LA’s broadcasting-and-theater history
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2011 In late January 2011, Portland-based media strategist and progressive talk-radio host Adam Klugman — son of the late LA-based actor Jack Klugman — staged a workshop reading of his new play Treason at Portland’s Artists Repertory Theater. The original…
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KCRW DJ Chris Douridas’s December 2010 on-air recovery from a rainy-night Hotel Cafe crash
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In mid-December 2010, KCRW DJ Chris Douridas paused mid-set on his weekly New Ground show to tell listeners he had been in a car accident the night before — on the way home from Hotel Cafe’s tenth-anniversary party. The…
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KCRW UpClose’s October 2010 Matthew Weiner and Alan Ball events at NPR West
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, September 2010 In late September 2010, KCRW and NPR announced the next two installments of UpClose — their live-event series staged before an intimate audience at NPR West in Culver City. The October 12 event paired The Treatment host Elvis Mitchell…