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January 2011: the Courtney Love Twitter-defamation trial and its forensics expert
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2011 In early January 2011, FishbowlLA previewed the upcoming defamation trial between Courtney Love and fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir — a case built around Love’s Twitter posts. The original framing noted that the guaranteed highlight had been expected to be…
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March 2013: Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva gets the Barbara Walters retirement scoop
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2013 In late March 2013, FishbowlLA tracked a substantial entertainment-news scoop: Deadline.com’s Nellie Andreeva — the site’s TV editor — had been first to report that Barbara Walters was planning to retire. Then Barbara Walters was, by 2013, one of…
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April 2013: The Hollywood Reporter launches ‘Behind the Screen,’ Carolyn Giardina’s tech blog
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2013 In early April 2013, FishbowlLA covered the launch of “Behind the Screen” — a new hollywoodreporter.com blog curated by contributing editor Carolyn Giardina, dedicated to film-and-entertainment technology. Then Carolyn Giardina was — and is — one of the most-cited…
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Courtney Friel says goodbye to FOX 11 — February 2013, after six years at KTTV
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2013 In mid-February 2013, FishbowlLA covered entertainment reporter Courtney Friel’s farewell to FOX 11 (KTTV) after six years with the LA station and its sister network. Friel told FBLA her first priority was some quiet weekend time at home with…
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Pete Hammond’s Cannes Great Gatsby coverage — May 2013, Deadline vs TheWrap vs the Drudge boost
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2013 In mid-May 2013, Deadline.com’s Pete Hammond produced an opening-night-at-Cannes piece on The Great Gatsby’s festival debut. The original FishbowlLA framing flagged a specific editorial-methodology issue. TheWrap had Alonso Duralde’s parallel coverage; the Drudge Report boost amplified the broader Cannes-press…
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler work the Golden Globes Q&A trail — January 2013 BFF hosting cycle
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2013 In mid-January 2013, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler executed a substantial press-tour cycle ahead of their first co-hosting turn at the Golden Globes. The cycle included exclusive interviews with The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly, plus a Wednesday-afternoon conference…
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Araksya Karapetyan’s May 2013 FOX 11 Morning News promotion — the KFI-to-FOX 11 LA-broadcast lane
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2013 In mid-May 2013, FOX 11 LA promoted Araksya Karapetyan to full-time anchor on its Morning News broadcast. Karapetyan had started her broadcast career while at the Newhouse School at Syracuse, interning at LA’s KFI AM 640 and KABC-TV; she…
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Pete Hammond’s Not-So-Great Gatsby moment — Deadline at the 2013 Cannes opener
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In mid-May 2013 the 66th Cannes Film Festival opened with Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, and Deadline’s Pete Hammond filed a review-cum-coverage piece that other critics — Alonso Duralde at TheWrap among them — found uncomfortably close to studio-marketing tone. Then…
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The Hollywood Reporter launches a ‘Behind the Screen’ tech blog
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2013 An April 2013 item marked The Hollywood Reporter staking out a beat that the streaming era would make far more important than it looked at the time. Then The Hollywood Reporter launched ‘Behind the Screen,’ a new hollywoodreporter.com blog curated…
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FishbowlLA’s post-Oscars Google+ hangout, February 2013
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2013 Some archive posts are time capsules of a platform as much as an event. This 2013 FishbowlLA item invited readers to a post-Oscars Google+ hangout — a sentence that needs two footnotes today. Then The post previewed the 85th Academy…