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Brian Brooks leaves Indiewire for Deadline — a Christmas-Day 2011 hire and the indie-film desk it built
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In a Christmas Day 2011 blurb, Nikki Finke announced that Brian Brooks — the longtime New York-based managing editor of Indiewire — was joining Deadline.com as its LA-based film editor, starting just in time to cover Sundance 2012 alongside Mike Fleming.…
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Art Rogers, an LA Times photographer for four decades, dies at 93
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 Some newsroom careers are measured in scoops. Others are measured in images. Art Rogers’s was the second kind. Then In late December 2011, FishbowlLA noted the death of Art Rogers, a native Angeleno who had spent more than 40 years…
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Nikki Finke’s Thanksgiving 2011 Deadline hires — Lowe and Tartaglione from HollywoodWiretap
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → On the Thanksgiving Day afternoon of November 24, 2011, Nikki Finke teased “two important staff additions” at Deadline. Kinsey Lowe and Nancy Tartaglione — both from the HollywoodWiretap.com newsletter operation — were the named hires. The Tartaglione part of the announcement…
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March 2011: the LA Business Journal runs the numbers on the relaunched Hollywood Reporter
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2011 In late March 2011, FishbowlLA picked up a Greg Hernandez piece in the LA Business Journal that ran the business numbers on the relaunched Hollywood Reporter — the glossy weekly magazine that Janice Min had built from the ashes…
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March 2011: Prometheus Global Media discounts a New York Post story about its CEO
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2011 In mid-March 2011, FishbowlLA covered Prometheus Global Media — the parent company of The Hollywood Reporter — discounting a New York Post story about its leadership. Then Prometheus Global Media was the holding company that owned The Hollywood Reporter,…
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Murray Seeger, former LA Times foreign correspondent, dies at 82 — August 2011
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, August 2011 In late August 2011, FishbowlLA noted the death of Murray Seeger, the former LA Times journalist who spent 14 years at the paper from 1967 to 1981. Seeger died from pneumonia at 82. Then Murray Seeger’s 14-year LA Times…
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March 2011: LA Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein takes the stand in the Tribune bankruptcy trial
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, March 2011 In mid-March 2011, FishbowlLA tracked a substantive LA-media-business moment: LA Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein took the stand in the Tribune Company bankruptcy trial. Then The Tribune Company bankruptcy was one of the most consequential American newspaper-industry financial collapses of…
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November 2011: Conrad Murray’s creditors sue NBCUniversal over the documentary fee
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, November 2011 In mid-November 2011, FishbowlLA covered a complicated media-ethics-and-litigation story: as the documentary Michael Jackson and the Doctor: A Fatal Friendship was set to air on MSNBC, creditors of Conrad Murray sued NBCUniversal. Murray had reportedly been paid around $300,000…
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Conrad Murray’s creditors come after NBCUniversal and MSNBC
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 When MSNBC scheduled a documentary built around Conrad Murray, FishbowlLA flagged the lawsuit that followed the money — and questioned the wisdom of the deal that produced it. Then The documentary Michael Jackson and the Doctor: A Fatal Friendship was…
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THR’s web editor disputes TheWrap’s report of his exit
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 In October 2011 FishbowlLA found itself refereeing a bitter dispute between two media outlets over a story about a third one. Then TheWrap’s Lucas Shaw had reported that THR.com deputy web editor Patrick Day was leaving for the LA Times,…