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Jon Thurber retires, the LA Times books editor search begins — May 2012
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Marcus Vanderberg (2012) · Wayback archive → In May 2012, longtime LA Times books editor Jon Thurber announced his retirement, and the paper opened the search for his successor. The transition was a small structural moment in the city’s books-and-criticism beat. Then Thurber had been one of the…
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The Hollywood Reporter’s website adds three editors
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 A routine April 2012 masthead item from FishbowlLA captured The Hollywood Reporter staffing up its website during the Janice Min expansion years. Then THR.com announced that Seth Abramovitch had been appointed deputy editor, while Erin Carlson and Jordan Zakarin joined…
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Ken Kobré’s ‘Deadline Every Second’ AP-photographer documentary
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In April 2012, San Francisco State University professor Ken Kobré released Deadline Every Second, a documentary about twelve Associated Press photojournalists — including SoCal staffer Chris Carlson — capturing news from national and international hot spots. Then Kobré had been a…
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Eriq Gardner’s 2012 promotion to THR senior editor — and the Hollywood, Esq. franchise
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In early April 2012 The Hollywood Reporter promoted Eriq Gardner — the prolific contributor behind THR’s Hollywood, Esq. legal column — to the full-time senior editor role, partly to fill the New York gap created by Georg Szalai’s move to London.…
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When Entertainment Weekly trimmed a Jennifer Love Hewitt ad
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 A small FishbowlLA visual catch from April 2012: the same Lifetime ad campaign appeared in two magazines — and the two versions were not quite the same. Then The post set up a side-by-side. The back cover of The Hollywood…
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How Deadline got caught by a Prometheus April Fools’ joke
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 April 1 is a hazard for fast-moving trade reporters, and in 2012 FishbowlLA caught Deadline.com failing the test — then declining to admit it cleanly. Then The prank originated at worstpreviews.com, in a fake item claiming James Cameron wanted to…
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The February 2012 trades traffic snapshot — and where those audiences ended up
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → For one month in early 2012, comScore caught a clean snapshot of the four Hollywood trades’ web audiences in a single grid. The Hollywood Reporter ran away with it. Deadline owned second. Variety and TheWrap traded the bottom two slots. The…
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Georg Szalai’s 2012 move to THR London — and what ‘international business editor’ meant
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In late March 2012 The Hollywood Reporter announced that New York bureau chief Georg Szalai was relocating to London as the trade’s international business editor. The move signaled where Janice Min’s THR was investing in coverage — the cross-border entertainment business…
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Discovery Channel cuts ties with Bear Grylls
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2012 In March 2012, one of cable’s most bankable adventurers and his home network had a very public falling-out. Then FishbowlLA, citing reporting in The Hollywood Reporter, noted that the coming season of Man vs. Wild looked likely to be its…
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Tracy Clark-Flory’s 2012 Salon subpoena — and the federal obscenity case that ended it
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2012) · Wayback archive → In late February 2012, Salon reporter Tracy Clark-Flory received a federal subpoena to testify in a Los Angeles federal obscenity trial — based on a year-old Q&A she had conducted with the adult filmmaker Ira Isaacs. She wrote about getting the…