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July 2012: Eriq Gardner’s THR item, Dan Abrams’s Mediaite response, and a photo-copyright suit
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, July 2012 In early July 2012, FishbowlLA tracked a small back-and-forth between The Hollywood Reporter and Mediaite. THR’s legal-affairs writer Eriq Gardner had published an item about a photo-copyright lawsuit against the Mediaite-network site Styleite. Mediaite owner Dan Abrams fired back…
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Nikki Finke’s August 2012 Oscar-host TOLDJA — and the Fallon-or-not 2013 ceremony question
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, August 2012 In mid-August 2012, FishbowlLA tracked a Nikki Finke “TOLDJA!” on the question of who would host the 2013 Academy Awards. An LA Times report had Jimmy Fallon in talks to host with Lorne Michaels producing. Then Nikki Finke had…
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August 2012: the THR Kristen Stewart ‘Snow White’ sequel scoop and Marc Malkin’s dispute
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, August 2012 In mid-August 2012, The Hollywood Reporter’s Kim Masters and Borys Kit filed a story indicating Kristen Stewart had been dropped from Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman sequel plans. E! News’s Marc Malkin publicly disputed the THR item. Then…
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Stephen Randall’s 2012 LA Times op-ed on the Variety-Deadline ‘love match’ — read in hindsight
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In mid-October 2012, Playboy deputy editor Stephen Randall wrote a humorous LA Times op-ed about the just-closed PMC-Variety acquisition, framing it as a love match between the two trade properties. The piece was lightly satirical. Six months later, half of the…
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The day PMC bought Variety — and Nikki Finke didn’t get to run it
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2012) · Wayback archive → In early October 2012, PMC’s acquisition of Variety from Reed Elsevier was announced. Jay Penske told the LA Times immediately that Nikki Finke would not be involved in running Variety, and that the publication would be operated separately from Deadline.com, though…
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The September 2012 Deadline ‘no 24/7 news’ advisory — and the PMC-Variety deal it telegraphed
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → On the Saturday morning of September 29, 2012, Nikki Finke posted a cryptic Deadline advisory: the team wouldn’t provide 24/7 news coverage for at least a week because of “DH business affecting the entire staff in LA, NY and Europe.” Hollywood…
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Dawn Hudson’s first AMPAS interview — Stephen Galloway’s February 2012 Hollywood Reporter sit-down
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2012 In late February 2012, Hollywood Reporter executive features editor Stephen Galloway landed the first on-record interview with new Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Dawn Hudson. The piece dropped just before the 84th Academy Awards. Then Dawn…
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Hollywood Reporter’s 2012 Rule Breakers — Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, and the year-end double issue
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2012 In mid-December 2012, The Hollywood Reporter shipped its year-end double issue with four different Rule Breakers covers — Oprah Winfrey, Quentin Tarantino, Psy, and one other featured subject. Winfrey’s cover-story interview tracked the OWN turnaround that had begun rescuing…
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Joseph Kapsch’s April 2012 jump from THR to Celebuzz — and the Dylan Howard reunion
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In late April 2012, Hollywood Reporter writer Joseph Kapsch announced he was leaving THR.com to join Celebuzz.com as executive editor under Dylan Howard. Then Dylan Howard had been one of the most-active editorial figures in American celebrity-news through the…
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Hollywood Reporter’s Kim Dotcom cover story — Daniel Miller, Matthew Belloni, and the Megaupload prosecution
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2012 In early May 2012, The Hollywood Reporter ran a cover story on Kim Dotcom — the Megaupload founder whose January 2012 New Zealand arrest had triggered one of the most-cited copyright-and-platform legal cases of the era. Daniel Miller and…