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The Hollywood Book Festival’s 2011 call for entries — and the adaptation-potential judging criteria
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, January 2011 In late January 2011, the Hollywood Book Festival announced a call for entries to its sixth annual literary competition. Books would be judged across 14 categories, but two of the stated criteria stood out: the storytelling ability of the…
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April 2011: Elvis Mitchell leaves Movieline, and fellow journalists place their bets
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2011 In late April 2011, FishbowlLA tracked Elvis Mitchell’s latest career shuffle — his termination as chief film critic of Movieline.com. The original FishbowlLA framing noted that fellow journalists were “placing their bets” on the mercurial critic’s next move. Then…
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August 2011: photographer David Strick sues the LA Times — and a Tim Rutten reporting dispute
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, August 2011 In mid-August 2011, FishbowlLA covered two parallel LA Times stories. Freelance photographer David Strick had filed a lawsuit against the paper. And — separately — reporter Brent Lang had run an item that the original FishbowlLA framing called “a…
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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,…