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Janice Min’s January 2013 THR reinforcement hires — Magzanyan, Belloni, and the path to break-even
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late January 2013 The Hollywood Reporter announced a slate of hires across marketing and editorial — Anna Magzanyan as VP of marketing, plus Matthew Belloni’s elevation to executive editor and other moves on the digital side. The FishbowlLA framing was…
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The Hollywood Reporter’s parent company gets a new name and a new boss
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2013 In January 2013 FishbowlLA reported a corporate rebrand that signaled bigger ambitions for The Hollywood Reporter’s owner — and a sharper rivalry at the top of the trade business. Then Under Guggenheim Partners, The Hollywood Reporter’s parent company — until…
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When the Academy’s first online-balloting year produced a same-day awards-press dustup
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → The 2012-2013 Oscar season was the first year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences moved to online member balloting, and the rollout went poorly. The press story that surfaced the problem belonged to Scott Feinberg at THR. The story…
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February 2012: Janice Min on rebuilding The Hollywood Reporter — the AvantGuild interview
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2012 In mid-February 2012, FishbowlLA picked up a Mediabistro AvantGuild “So What Do You Do?” interview with Janice Min — the editor who had rebuilt The Hollywood Reporter. The original framing pulled out a detail about Min and Twitter: an…
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April 2012: Jay A. Fernandez joins Indiewire from The Hollywood Reporter
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In late April 2012, FishbowlLA covered Jay A. Fernandez officially starting at Indiewire as senior writer and news editor. The move — from The Hollywood Reporter — had first been announced by Anne Thompson on her Indiewire blog. Then…
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Jay Penske puts Michelle Sobrino-Stearns in charge at Variety — October 2012
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In mid-October 2012 — barely a week after PMC’s acquisition of Variety from Reed Elsevier had closed — Jay Penske announced that Michelle Sobrino-Stearns was taking over as Variety’s publisher, replacing Brian Gott. Then Sobrino-Stearns came in with substantial trade-publication background.…
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Penske names Variety’s first female publisher
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 Days after Penske Media completed its purchase of Variety, FishbowlLA noted a milestone in the trade’s long history: its first female publisher. Then Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, a 15-year Variety veteran whose titles already included sales director, managing director of features and…
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Mike Fleming’s Playboy Interview sideline — May 2012, two decades of long-form Q&As
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2012 In late May 2012, FishbowlLA noted that Deadline.com’s Mike Fleming — despite the relentless pace of his Hollywood-scoop reporting — had continued one longstanding freelance tradition: the Playboy Interview. The original framing documented that Fleming had contributed roughly two…
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October 2012: Deadline pulls an Ari Emanuel lawsuit item, and Nikki Finke posts a rare apology
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, October 2012 In mid-October 2012, Deadline.com reporter Dominic Patten filed an item about an Ari Emanuel lawsuit. The item was quickly pulled, and Nikki Finke posted what the original FishbowlLA framing called “the diametrical opposite of a TOLDJA!” — a rare…
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April 2012: Deadline gets fooled by a WorstPreviews April Fools ‘Prometheus sequel’ item
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In early April 2012, FishbowlLA documented a small trade-press embarrassment: a WorstPreviews.com April Fools item — a fake story claiming James Cameron wanted to direct a sequel to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus — had been picked up as real. The…