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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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When Deadline’s “TOLDJA!” became a Hollywood trade-press in-joke
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 Every newsroom develops its own house style. Few have ever been as loud — literally, in all caps — as Deadline’s. Then In August 2012, FishbowlLA caught a small but revealing exchange between the warring entertainment trades. Deadline’s Mike Fleming…
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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…
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A TV director’s satirical answer to Kim Dotcom
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In July 2012, as the Megaupload case ground on, FishbowlLA highlighted a working filmmaker’s wry rebuttal to Kim Dotcom’s overtures to Hollywood. Then Kim Dotcom had published a conciliatory July 17 open letter in The Hollywood Reporter. Writer-director Bruce Leddy…
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Patrick Goldstein’s 2012 trades ranking — Deadline 1st, Variety 4th, and the awards-ads tell
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In July 2012, Los Angeles Times columnist Patrick Goldstein spent a week calling Hollywood and asked an awkward question — where does Variety actually rank now? — and got an awkward answer. The trades had been reordered, and Variety’s century-long presumption…
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Nic Harcourt returns to LA morning radio at CSUN’s KCSN — October 2012
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, October 2012 In mid-October 2012, Nic Harcourt — the former KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic host who had handed the show to Jason Bentley in December 2008 — returned to LA morning radio. His new home was CSUN’s 88.5 FM (KCSN), the…
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Moebius (Jean Giraud) dies at 73 — and the Hollywood lineage of his visual influence
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, March 2012 In mid-March 2012, the French graphic artist Jean Giraud — better known by his pen name Moebius — died at 73 after a long battle with cancer. The LA Times’s obituary led the coverage; FishbowlLA picked up the piece…
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KPCC’s August 2012 schedule shuffle — Patt Morrison out of mid-mornings, Brand & Martínez expand
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Marcus Vanderberg on FishbowlLA, August 2012 In late August 2012, KPCC announced a substantial weekday-schedule shuffle effective September 10. The Brand & Martínez show — co-hosted by Madeleine Brand and A Martínez — was expanded from one hour to two, taking the 9-to-11 a.m. mid-morning…
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KPCC president Bill Davis fields impromptu open-house questions — and confirms Madeleine Brand’s TV exit
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, October 2012 On October 2, 2012, KPCC held a “Millennials mixer” open house at its Pasadena headquarters. Among the small-group attendees was LA journalist Luis Gomez, who happened to encounter station president and CEO Bill Davis emerging from his office. Davis…