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May 2012: AOL narrows Arianna Huffington’s portfolio back to HuffPost
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, May 2012 In early May 2012, AOL announced that Arianna Huffington’s editorial portfolio — which had since the February 2011 $315 million Huffington Post acquisition included Patch, MovieFone, PopEater, and TechCrunch — was being narrowed back to just the Huffington Post.…
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Villaraigosa’s 2012 KPCC interview about his marriage — and the political fallout that followed
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, June 2012 In late June 2012, LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sat for a KPCC interview with senior online reporter Alice Walton in connection with a Loyola Marymount conversations-series event. Walton’s piece for KPCC included the mayor’s on-record answer to a question…
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The 2012 LAPD reply-all email leak — and what the NBC LA bunny-trafficking story exposed
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2012 In early December 2012, NBC LA investigative reporter Ana Garcia ran a story on illegal animal-trafficking arrests in downtown LA. LAPD media-relations chief Robbi Peele then sent an internal email about the story that, through a reply-all chain, ended…
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When the trades fought over Angelina Jolie’s rumored Fifty Shades involvement — and what actually happened
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In early June 2012 Variety’s film editor Josh Dickey and Variety.com’s Chris Krewson posted public, biting tweets about a Mike Fleming Deadline item that floated the possibility of Angelina Jolie directing the Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation. The trade war erupted…
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When Deadline’s Mike Fleming moonlighted as Playboy’s celebrity interviewer
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 Long before he became one of the most-cited bylines in Hollywood deal coverage, Mike Fleming had a side gig: he conducted the marquee Q&A for Playboy. In 2012 FishbowlLA noted that the Deadline editor was still keeping that tradition alive,…
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Trade Fools, the anonymous 2012 Blogspot watchdog that the trades survived
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In the spring of 2012 a brand-new Blogspot site appeared called Trade Fools, written anonymously, with the single mission of grading and ribbing the four Hollywood trades. FishbowlLA gave it a welcoming hand. Fourteen years later, the trade-watchdog model it represented…
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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…