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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…
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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…