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Brian Brooks leaves Indiewire for Deadline — a Christmas-Day 2011 hire and the indie-film desk it built
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In a Christmas Day 2011 blurb, Nikki Finke announced that Brian Brooks — the longtime New York-based managing editor of Indiewire — was joining Deadline.com as its LA-based film editor, starting just in time to cover Sundance 2012 alongside Mike Fleming.…
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Conrad Murray’s creditors come after NBCUniversal and MSNBC
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 When MSNBC scheduled a documentary built around Conrad Murray, FishbowlLA flagged the lawsuit that followed the money — and questioned the wisdom of the deal that produced it. Then The documentary Michael Jackson and the Doctor: A Fatal Friendship was…
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Chuck Philips joins a Suge Knight documentary — September 2011, and the Pulitzer winner’s second act
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, September 2011 In late September 2011, FishbowlLA reported that a Showtime documentary on Death Row Records founder Suge Knight was in development, with Training Day director Antoine Fuqua attached to helm. The detail FBLA flagged: Pulitzer Prize-winning former LA Times reporter…
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April 2011: Elvis Mitchell leaves Movieline, and fellow journalists place their bets
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2011 In late April 2011, FishbowlLA tracked Elvis Mitchell’s latest career shuffle — his termination as chief film critic of Movieline.com. The original FishbowlLA framing noted that fellow journalists were “placing their bets” on the mercurial critic’s next move. Then…
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Rollin Post dies at 81 — the Bay Area political TV reporter who started in LA
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In early October 2011, longtime Bay Area TV reporter Rollin Post died at 81 of Alzheimer’s. Post had spent most of his career as KRON-TV Channel 4’s political editor in San Francisco, but had started in Los Angeles — as a…
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Tom O’Neil takes Gold Derby back independent — and where awards prediction has gone since
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In early October 2011, Tom O’Neil — the awards-prediction journalist who had been running TheEnvelope.com under LA Times branding — announced he was taking his Gold Derby site back independent. Then O’Neil had been running Gold Derby for years before partnering…
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Tom O’Neil on taking Gold Derby independent
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 In October 2011 FishbowlLA interviewed Tom O’Neil as he pulled his awards-prediction site Gold Derby off TheEnvelope.com to run it independently. Then O’Neil told FishbowlLA he was taking Gold Derby back onto the open web with executive editor Paul Sheehan,…
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The Hollywood Reporter hires actress Lake Bell as its automotive columnist
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 The Hollywood Reporter’s 2011 hiring spree had a habit of producing unexpected bylines. One of the more unusual: a working actress on the masthead. Then In September 2011, FishbowlLA flagged yet another addition to The Hollywood Reporter’s expanding roster —…
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Mel Gibson’s April 2011 Deadline exclusive — Allison Hope Weiner’s access, Anita Busch’s praise, David Poland’s revulsion
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2011 In late April 2011, Deadline Hollywood ran an exclusive interview with Mel Gibson — his first substantive on-record press engagement since the broader cycle of 2010 controversies that had substantially diminished his Hollywood standing. Allison Hope Weiner conducted the…
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Robin Abcarian on the Today Show — how the LA Times broke the Schwarzenegger affair story, May 2011
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, May 2011 In late May 2011, LA Times reporter Robin Abcarian appeared on NBC’s Today Show with Matt Lauer to discuss how the LA Times had broken the news that former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had fathered a child with the…