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The Hollywood Reporter brings in a Variety veteran as associate publisher
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2010 The Hollywood Reporter’s 2010 reinvention was not only an editorial project. It was a business one — and that meant hiring on the sales side, too. Then In December 2010, FishbowlLA reported that Variety veteran Craig Hitchcock had signed on…
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April 2010: the HBO ‘Tilda’ pilot, the Nikki Finke resemblance, and the lawsuit question
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, April 2010 In late April 2010, FishbowlLA weighed in on the HBO pilot Tilda — a project about a powerful Hollywood blogger who used her website to take on Tinseltown’s power players. When THR’s Matthew Belloni revealed the script details, the…
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Bill Higgins leaves Variety for a fast-expanding Hollywood Reporter
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2010 In the autumn of 2010, every few weeks seemed to bring another byline defecting from Variety to The Hollywood Reporter. Bill Higgins was one of the more telling departures. Then FishbowlLA, citing Anne Thompson’s indieWIRE blog, reported that Bill Higgins…
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When The Hollywood Reporter’s web traffic first overtook its digital rivals
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, 2010 For years the conventional wisdom held that the old entertainment trades had been left behind online. In August 2010, a set of traffic numbers complicated that story. Then In the summer of 2010, The Hollywood Reporter — long dismissed as…
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Janice Min’s first THR hire was Kim Masters — and the show is still going
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2010) · Wayback archive → The single hire that announced Janice Min’s intention to remake The Hollywood Reporter wasn’t a deputy editor or a publisher — it was Kim Masters, brought in as Editor-At-Large with her KCRW show kept intact. Sixteen years later, that show is…
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Denise Cramsey, the Extreme Makeover producer who died at 41 — and a Variety obit that aged well
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In late November 2010, reality TV producer Denise Cramsey — the Emmy-winning executive producer of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Trading Spaces, and School Pride — died at 41 of a brain aneurysm. Variety’s Stuart Levine wrote the kind of obit that…
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The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment list, 2008 — Oprah on top
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Dan Cox on FishbowlLA, 2008 Every December, The Hollywood Reporter ranks the most powerful women in entertainment. In 2008 the ritual landed in the middle of the trade’s own painful retrenchment. Then In December 2008, The Hollywood Reporter published its annual Power 100 list of…
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THReviews — the 2008 Hollywood Reporter digital play that the Nielsen era never finished
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Dan Cox (2008) · Wayback archive → In late 2008, with Variety publicly making fun of itself in a Daily-Show-adjacent self-parody mode, The Hollywood Reporter announced it was getting serious about digital. The launch product was called THReviews — a portal aggregating reviews, news, and entertainment content from…
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Eric Mika’s 2007 plan to take The Hollywood Reporter global — print ‘defying gravity
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Greg on FishbowlLA, November 2007 In early November 2007, FishbowlLA interviewed Eric Mika — The Hollywood Reporter’s senior vice president and publishing director — about the trade’s ambitious global-expansion push. Mika told FBLA that “the Hollywood Reporter for the last several months is defying gravity,”…
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July 2007: Jacob Bernstein’s WWD profile of Nikki Finke, and the synchronized blog pickup
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Kate Coe on FishbowlLA, July 2007 In mid-July 2007, FishbowlLA noticed something curious: a Jacob Bernstein profile of Nikki Finke in Women’s Wear Daily was suddenly being discussed across multiple LA-media blogs the same weekend. FBLA had received an email from a “high-powered PR type”…