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June 2011: David Poland takes on Nikki Finke over the Lynne Segall post
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, June 2011 In mid-June 2011, FishbowlLA tracked a public clash between Movie City News writer David Poland and Deadline.com’s Nikki Finke. Finke had published a lengthy post slamming outgoing media executive Lynne Segall, accusing her of an assortment of unethical behavior…
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Chuck Philips joins a Suge Knight documentary — September 2011, and the Pulitzer winner’s second act
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, September 2011 In late September 2011, FishbowlLA reported that a Showtime documentary on Death Row Records founder Suge Knight was in development, with Training Day director Antoine Fuqua attached to helm. The detail FBLA flagged: Pulitzer Prize-winning former LA Times reporter…
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Adam Winkler’s ‘Gunfight’ — the 2011 book that refused to take a side in the gun debate
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, September 2011 In late September 2011, FishbowlLA covered UCLA law professor Adam Winkler’s new book Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. The framing hook was a telling anecdote: when Winkler spoke to a TV-booking agent about…
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The Hollywood Reporter rolls out a fashion blog
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 In October 2011 The Hollywood Reporter launched a fashion column — another sign of how central red-carpet style had become to the entertainment-trade business. Then THR announced ‘FASHtrack,’ a print and online fashion column. FishbowlLA, in its way, led with…
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THR launches FASHtrack — the 2011 fashion-vertical experiment and what survived
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In mid-October 2011 The Hollywood Reporter launched FASHtrack — a new print-and-online fashion column under contributing editor Elizabeth Snead and writer Merle Ginsberg. The launch fit the broader Janice Min strategy of building THR.com vertical by vertical, with fashion as one…
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Rollin Post dies at 81 — the Bay Area political TV reporter who started in LA
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In early October 2011, longtime Bay Area TV reporter Rollin Post died at 81 of Alzheimer’s. Post had spent most of his career as KRON-TV Channel 4’s political editor in San Francisco, but had started in Los Angeles — as a…
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Tom O’Neil on taking Gold Derby independent
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 In October 2011 FishbowlLA interviewed Tom O’Neil as he pulled his awards-prediction site Gold Derby off TheEnvelope.com to run it independently. Then O’Neil told FishbowlLA he was taking Gold Derby back onto the open web with executive editor Paul Sheehan,…
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Tom O’Neil takes Gold Derby back independent — and where awards prediction has gone since
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In early October 2011, Tom O’Neil — the awards-prediction journalist who had been running TheEnvelope.com under LA Times branding — announced he was taking his Gold Derby site back independent. Then O’Neil had been running Gold Derby for years before partnering…
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The Hollywood Reporter hires actress Lake Bell as its automotive columnist
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 The Hollywood Reporter’s 2011 hiring spree had a habit of producing unexpected bylines. One of the more unusual: a working actress on the masthead. Then In September 2011, FishbowlLA flagged yet another addition to The Hollywood Reporter’s expanding roster —…
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Ruben Vives and Jeff Gottlieb win the 2011 Selden Ring Award — LA Times’s Bell corruption investigation
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, February 2011 In late February 2011, LA Times reporters Ruben Vives and Jeff Gottlieb were announced as winners of the 2011 Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting — recognizing their work breaking the story of outrageous city-official salaries in Bell, California.…