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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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The American Film Market’s 29th edition unspools in Santa Monica — November 2008
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Dan Cox on FishbowlLA, November 2008 In early November 2008, FishbowlLA covered the opening of the 29th American Film Market — the annual film-sales market that takes over Santa Monica’s Loews Beach Hotel for a week. The original framing, by Dan Cox, captured the market’s…
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February 2013: a report on former KABC anchor Anna Chavez’s retirement
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2013 In late February 2013, FishbowlLA picked up a Rich Lieberman report concerning the retirement of former KABC television news anchor Anna Chavez. Lieberman’s San Francisco-Bay-Area media blog had shared what the original FishbowlLA framing called a chastening bit of…
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April 2012: a tale of two magazine ads for ‘The Client List’
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In early April 2012, FishbowlLA noticed something about the back-cover ads for Lifetime’s new series The Client List: the same campaign, placed in two different magazines, appeared to have been retouched differently. The original framing was a light catch…
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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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December 2010: Douglas McFarlane’s ‘Making It in Hollywood’ — a kilt-wearing showbiz-reporter DVD
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In mid-December 2010, FishbowlLA covered Douglas McFarlane — a London-based Scotsman who by day advised banks on security and internet projects — and his tongue-in-cheek DVD Making It in Hollywood, the result of his accredited-foreign-press tours of the Oscars,…
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January 2013: Tony Ortega breaks down the Lawrence Wright Scientology book excerpts
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2013 In early January 2013, FishbowlLA covered Tony Ortega’s response to two excerpts of Lawrence Wright’s forthcoming Scientology book, published in The Hollywood Reporter. The original framing tracked a small node in the dense, interlinked Scientology-journalism ecosystem of the moment.…
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January 2013: KTLA’s Elizabeth Espinosa adds CNN Latino duties
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2013 In mid-January 2013, FishbowlLA covered KTLA weekend news anchor Elizabeth Espinosa taking on a new sideline: fronting Sin Límites, a Spanish-language weekday news magazine produced by CNN Latino, airing locally on KBEH-DT Channel 63. The original framing treated the…
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The 2012 Los Angeles Area Emmy winners — and the investigative reporting that took the prizes
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, August 2012 In mid-August 2012, FishbowlLA marked the 2012 Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards by spotlighting the winning investigative work — the Wi-Fi-hacking, small-claims-scamming, and HACLA-spending reports that took prizes. The original framing argued that the investigative categories were the best…
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August 2011: a report that CAA was eyeing a Silicon Valley office
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, August 2011 In late August 2011, FishbowlLA picked up a Peter Lauria report — Lauria was then Thomson Reuters’s editor-in-charge of technology, media, and telecom — on the possibility that Creative Artists Agency was looking to open a small office in…