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Bill Hader’s 2012 Emmy nomination — Saturday Night Live, John Cleese, and Elvis Mitchell’s KCRW Treatment
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, September 2012 In mid-September 2012, Bill Hader sat with Elvis Mitchell for an episode of KCRW’s The Treatment. Hader’s appearance came as he prepared for his first Primetime Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category —…
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Nancie Clare and Rip Georges launch Noir Magazine — the 2012 tablet-only bet
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2012) · Wayback archive → In early September 2012 — three months after LA Times Magazine was shut down and they lost their jobs — Nancie Clare and Rip Georges announced Noir Magazine, a new tablet-only publication covering the mystery, thriller, and true-crime genres across books,…
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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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Goldman Sachs sells its Village Voice Media stake — Nicholas Kristof, Backpage, and the April 2012 divestment
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In early April 2012, Goldman Sachs sold its 16% stake in Village Voice Media — the parent of LA Weekly, OC Weekly, and the broader VMG newspaper portfolio, plus the substantially more controversial Backpage classified-ads site. The divestment came…
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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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Carol Muske-Dukes’s October 2012 HuffPost defense of Patt Morrison — and how the KPCC schedule shuffle played
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, October 2012 In late October 2012, USC English-and-creative-writing professor Carol Muske-Dukes — a former California poet laureate — published a Huffington Post column taking KPCC 89.3 management to task for the way they had treated Patt Morrison. The Pulitzer-winning broadcaster and…
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Bill Handel’s March 2012 on-air flashpoint — KFI, the Black Media Alliance, and the Limbaugh aftermath
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2012 In early March 2012, KFI AM 640 morning host Bill Handel said the words “dumb ass women” on-air while discussing a Kansas abortion case. The Black Media Alliance flagged the segment; the Burbank-based KFI management was, in the original…
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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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Helen Gurley Brown dies at 90 — and the Cosmo legacy at the 60-year mark
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2012) · Wayback archive → In mid-August 2012, Helen Gurley Brown — the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and the author of the 1962 best-seller Sex and the Single Girl — died at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital at age 90. The Los Angeles connection — Brown was an…
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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…