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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.…
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Robin Abcarian on the Today Show — how the LA Times broke the Schwarzenegger affair story, May 2011
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, May 2011 In late May 2011, LA Times reporter Robin Abcarian appeared on NBC’s Today Show with Matt Lauer to discuss how the LA Times had broken the news that former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had fathered a child with the…
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Mel Gibson’s April 2011 Deadline exclusive — Allison Hope Weiner’s access, Anita Busch’s praise, David Poland’s revulsion
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2011 In late April 2011, Deadline Hollywood ran an exclusive interview with Mel Gibson — his first substantive on-record press engagement since the broader cycle of 2010 controversies that had substantially diminished his Hollywood standing. Allison Hope Weiner conducted the…
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The day PMC filed the copyright lawsuit against Prometheus — September 14, 2011
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → On September 14, 2011, five days after Nikki Finke’s notorious “SCOLDJA” email response to Prometheus Global Media’s lawyers ran on Deadline, Penske Media Corporation filed its copyright infringement complaint in U.S. District Court. Then The complaint’s headline allegation was about web…
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Section 34 — what PMC’s THR lawsuit actually alleged, and how the case ended
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → The headline charge of Penske Media Corporation’s September 2011 lawsuit against Prometheus Global Media was about TVLine and HollywoodReporter.com having suspiciously similar templates. The actual document was 30 paragraphs longer and aimed at something different: a numbered list of stories THR…
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Nikki Finke fires back at The Hollywood Reporter’s lawyers — in public
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 The rivalry between Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter was the defining feud of early-2010s entertainment media. In September 2011 it spilled into legal letters — and Nikki Finke published her reply for everyone to read. Then By the fall of…
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Former LA Times correspondent Murray Seeger dies at 82
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 An August 2011 FishbowlLA notice marked the death of a Los Angeles Times correspondent who had reported from one of the toughest beats of the Cold War. Then Murray Seeger, who spent 14 years at the LA Times from 1967…
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The 2011 MTV VMAs record ratings — and the format lesson the Oscars eventually didn’t learn
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In late August 2011 the MTV Video Music Awards posted their best ratings ever — a record that came with no host on stage, after Chelsea Handler had hosted the 2010 show. The original FishbowlLA framing suggested the VMA ratings might…