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David Carr’s 2011 NY Times praise for Janice Min — the early-cycle validation
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In late May 2011 — only ten months into Janice Min’s relaunch of The Hollywood Reporter — the New York Times’ David Carr ran a Media Equation column praising the editorial turnaround. The piece was the first major East-Coast-press validation of…
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AOL Daily Finance’s 2011 staff reboot — Peter Goodman, HuffPo, and a long arc
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In late May 2011 Peter Goodman — recently elevated to Executive Business Editor of the merged AOL Huffington Post Media Group — announced a substantial staff reboot at AOL Daily Finance. Then The AOL-HuffPo merger had closed in March 2011 for…
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Tim Adler’s exit from Deadline London — and the 20-calls-a-day rumor
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2011) · Wayback archive → In May 2011 Tim Adler stepped down as editor of Deadline London. Multiple anonymous sources told FishbowlLA that Adler had quit because he got tired of Nikki Finke calling him 20 times a day. Finke’s version was that Adler was leaving…
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Has Nikki Finke gone soft? Patrick Goldstein asks
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 In May 2011 FishbowlLA flagged a Patrick Goldstein column asking whether Deadline’s Nikki Finke had lost her edge after being acquired. Then The LA Times’s Patrick Goldstein — by then sharing his beat with colleague James Rainey and writing for…
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When Nikki Finke responded to Patrick Goldstein — the 2011 Miami Herald piece
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In mid-May 2011, Patrick Goldstein — by then sharing his LA Times trades beat with colleague James Rainey — published a piece in the Miami Herald about Deadline.com. Nikki Finke responded with the line that captured the moment: “I’m still calling…
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THR pulls Joseph Kapsch from Zap2it — the 2011 hire and the open-web era
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In May 2011 The Hollywood Reporter announced it had hired Joseph Kapsch — the editorial director at Tribune-owned Zap2it.com — as its new website editor, replacing Bryan Alexander, who had decamped for USA Today. The hire was a clean signal of…
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Jerry Bruckheimer’s 2011 THR Facebook takeover — when guest-editing a Facebook page was a thing
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In mid-May 2011 The Hollywood Reporter handed its Facebook fan page over to Jerry Bruckheimer for a day — timed to coincide with the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. The publication’s first guest editor was the man…
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Terry McGarry dies at 72 — and the long-tenured editor class the LA Times no longer produces
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In late April 2011, LA Times reporter Andrew Blankstein tweeted out the news that former Times editor Terry McGarry had died at 72. The paper published its own obit the same day. Then McGarry had spent the bulk of his career…
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Dennis Romero on the 2011 ASNE diversity survey — and what fifteen years of newsroom-diversity tracking shows
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In early April 2011, LA Weekly Informer blogger Dennis Romero — known publicly as The Informer — broke down the American Society of News Editors’ third annual newsroom-diversity survey. The headline finding: minority numbers were plunging for the third year in…
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Steve Lopez vs Alexander Marlow on Hamilton High — a 2011 LAUSD column dispute
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In April 2011 a Big Journalism contributor named Alexander Marlow published a sharp rebuttal of an LA Times column by Steve Lopez that had focused on teacher layoffs at Alexander Hamilton High School in Beverlywood, an LAUSD high school with two…