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Ed Chernoff’s January 2011 profile — life as Dr. Conrad Murray’s defense lawyer in the Michael Jackson trial media bubble
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2011 In late January 2011, TexasLawyer.com staff reporter Miriam Rozen published a profile of Ed Chernoff — the Houston-based defense lawyer hired within 48 hours of Michael Jackson’s June 2009 death to represent Dr. Conrad Murray. The piece captured Chernoff’s…
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R. Scott Moxley’s annotated takedown of the LA Times Donald Bren profile — February 2011
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2011 In late February 2011, OC Weekly reporter R. Scott Moxley published a cover story that took apart, paragraph by paragraph, the LA Times Business section’s February 13 profile of Irvine Company chairman and Orange County’s richest man, Donald Bren.…
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Ashton Kutcher’s July 2011 pressure campaign on Village Voice Media advertisers — and the Backpage backstory
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, July 2011 In early July 2011, Ashton Kutcher publicly pressured Village Voice Media’s national advertisers — naming Disney, Domino’s, Columbia University, and American Airlines on Twitter — to drop their advertising relationships with the company. The proximate cause was a Village…
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The 2011 LA Times APME public-service award for Bell — and what the broader investigation produced
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In mid-July 2011 the Associated Press Managing Editors association announced its annual awards, and the LA Times picked up two major honors — the Public Service award for its Bell corruption investigation and a First Amendment honor for the “Grading the…
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Sharon Waxman calls out THR for not crediting TheWrap — the 2011 scoop wars escalate
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In June 2011 Sharon Waxman, the founder and editor of TheWrap, did something Nikki Finke had been doing at Deadline for two years — she publicly accused a trade competitor of running her scoops without crediting them. The competitor in this…
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March 2011: Visual Art Source publisher’s HuffPost strike — the unpaid-blogger ethics fight that found its voice
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, March 2011 In early March 2011, Bill Lasarow — publisher and co-editor of the LA-based Visual Art Source website — declared a strike against the Huffington Post over the platform’s continuing reliance on unpaid bloggers and syndicated content. The original FishbowlLA…
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Shaun Lumachi dies at 33 — and the Long Beach Post he co-founded
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2011 In early December 2011, Long Beach Post co-founder and publisher Shaun Lumachi died at 33 in a Florida car crash. He had been in St. Petersburg attending the National Workforce Association’s conference. The Long Beach Post he had co-founded…
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Fernando Dominguez watches his son Matt’s MLB debut — and what came after
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, September 2011 In mid-September 2011, LA Times sports-desk copy editor Fernando Dominguez flew to Miami to watch his son Matt make his Major League Baseball debut with the Florida Marlins. Matt Dominguez had been a Chatsworth High School star and a…
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Adam Klugman’s January 2011 Treason workshop — and the Klugman family arc across LA’s broadcasting-and-theater history
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2011 In late January 2011, Portland-based media strategist and progressive talk-radio host Adam Klugman — son of the late LA-based actor Jack Klugman — staged a workshop reading of his new play Treason at Portland’s Artists Repertory Theater. The original…
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Keith Olbermann’s first Current TV interview — and the $10M-with-equity deal
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In June 2011 Marisa Guthrie landed Keith Olbermann’s first sit-down interview about his MSNBC exit and his move to Current TV. The Hollywood Reporter cover story disclosed the contract terms: $10 million a year, plus equity in the network that could…