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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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Diana Munatones, broadcast journalist and former LAUSD spokesperson, dies at 66 — March 2012 obit
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, March 2012 In mid-March 2012, broadcast journalist and former LAUSD spokesperson Diana Munatones died at 66 of unspecified causes at Arcadia Methodist Hospital. The Bell Gardens Sun ran the most substantive obituary, framing her career as one of the trailblazing Latina…
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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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Two Hollywoods on one Hollywood Reporter week — Norman Lloyd’s 98 years and the Next Gen 2012 list
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, November 2012 In early November 2012, The Hollywood Reporter staged two cultural-celebration events in the same week that captured opposite ends of the industry’s generational range. The Next Gen 2012 list — Hollywood’s fastest-rising executives and creatives under 35 — was…
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Dorothy Lucey’s June 2012 KTLA reunion with Sam Rubin — after the Good Day LA exit
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, June 2012 In early June 2012, Dorothy Lucey appeared on KTLA’s Morning News alongside longtime entertainment reporter Sam Rubin — about a week after she had been let go from Good Day LA after 17 years. The reunion was at Sunset…
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KCET’s November 2012 set visit — SoCal Connected, Val Zavala, and the Burbank office relaunch
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, November 2012 In late November 2012, FishbowlLA published a set-visit feature on KCET — the LA-region public-television station that had recently moved to The Pointe in Burbank and was rebuilding its institutional infrastructure after the substantial 2011 break with PBS. The…
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Marc Malkin disputes the Hollywood Reporter’s Kristen Stewart ‘Snow White’ item
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In August 2012 FishbowlLA dissected a disagreement between The Hollywood Reporter and E! News over a single verb — whether Kristen Stewart had been ‘dropped’ from a Snow White and the Huntsman sequel. Then The Hollywood Reporter, in a story…
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The LA Times promotes Joy Press to books and culture editor
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In August 2012 the Los Angeles Times handed one of its most coveted culture jobs to Joy Press — a move FishbowlLA tracked partly because Press and her husband, music critic Simon Reynolds, were a familiar LA journalism couple. Then…
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THR’s 2012 Dodgers four-cover stunt — and what the Guggenheim era actually delivered
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In August 2012 The Hollywood Reporter went all-in on the Los Angeles Dodgers, running four different print covers for a single issue — Clayton Kershaw, Magic Johnson and Peter Guber, Tommy Lasorda, and the Mattingly/Kemp/Ethier triple. Daniel Miller’s cover story and…
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VFX Soldier breaks anonymity — the 2012 interview and what happened to the union push
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In late July 2012, the anonymous entertainment-industry blogger VFX Soldier gave a long interview to electrician-and-organizer Bob Oedy at VFX Success. Eight months later, the broader VFX-industry crisis the interview was warning about exploded into public view. Then VFX Soldier’s two…