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New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid dies on assignment in Syria
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2012 In February 2012 FishbowlLA marked the loss of one of the finest foreign correspondents of his generation, dead at 43 while reporting inside Syria. Then Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter, died of an asthma attack while…
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Anthony Shadid dies in Syria — and what his loss told us about foreign-correspondent risk
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2012) · Wayback archive → In mid-February 2012, Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid died of an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria. He was 43. Then Shadid had won two Pulitzers for his Middle East reporting and had been at the New…
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HuffPost consolidates its BlackVoices and LatinoVoices desks under one editor
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2012 In early 2012, a small reshuffle at The Huffington Post hinted at how the site was managing its fast-growing identity verticals. Then FishbowlLA, citing Richard Prince’s column at the Maynard Institute, reported a personnel change at the top of HuffPost’s…
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The AP signs on to distribute Hollywood Reporter and Billboard stories
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 A February 2012 deal item: the Associated Press agreed to carry entertainment content from Prometheus Global Media’s two flagship titles, giving The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard a path to a far larger audience. Then FishbowlLA framed the news competitively. TheWrap…
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Janice Min on the thin journalist bench in Los Angeles
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 A 2012 Mediabistro interview with Janice Min surfaced a quietly revealing complaint: the editor remaking The Hollywood Reporter found Los Angeles a hard place to staff a newsroom. Then FishbowlLA picked up a ‘So What Do You Do…?’ interview that…
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Sundance 2012, the BlogDogger time-stamp fight, and what ‘exclusive’ came to mean
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → The 2012 Sundance Film Festival’s biggest trade-press story wasn’t a sale or a deal. It was an argument about which trade had filed first on the John Hawkes drama The Surrogate, and the argument was being waged in three-minute windows with…
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Russ Stanton, just out as LA Times editor, takes over content at KPCC
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, 2012 In early 2012, one of the more consequential career moves in Los Angeles journalism arrived with a quiet headline: a newspaper editor crossing into public radio. Then Just one month after stepping down as editor of the Los Angeles Times,…
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THR’s 2012 Russian edition — and the international franchise model that the geopolitical map redrew
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In mid-January 2012 The Hollywood Reporter announced it was launching a Russian-language monthly print edition in March, with a companion website at thehollywoodreporter.ru. The launch was the third foreign-language THR property under Janice Min — following the path Billboard had pioneered…
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A laid-off Voice of San Diego reporter lands at the LA Times
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2012 In early 2012, the wider story of where journalism jobs were appearing — and disappearing — could be read in a single hire. Then FishbowlLA reported that Emily Alpert, formerly of the nonprofit news site Voice of San Diego, had…
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Variety’s BlogDogger launches — the trade watchdog that sniffed Deadline’s timestamps
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In early January 2012 Variety launched a feature called BlogDogger — an in-house watchdog blog dedicated to “prowling the perimeter of entertainment journalism, hounding hypocrisy, snarling at snafus and sometimes just howling at the moon.” Its first viral catch was an…