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Daniel Hernandez’s Mexico City book lands — and the decade-long path of LA journos south
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In late January 2011, former LA Weekly staff writer Daniel Hernandez announced the impending release of his Scribner book Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the 21st Century. Three years of fieldwork in the Distrito Federal had…
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Roger Friedman points the thievery finger at Deadline
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 Aggregation without credit was a running sore in early-2010s online journalism. In January 2011 FishbowlLA caught columnist Roger Friedman naming names. Then Roger Friedman, the New York-based showbiz columnist behind Showbiz 411, had never been shy about calling out outlets…
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Roger Friedman’s 2011 Showbiz 411 ‘thievery’ trifecta — Deadline, People, and TVLine
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In mid-January 2011, New York-based showbiz columnist Roger Friedman did something he was already known for at his Showbiz 411 site: name and shame three competitors who he said had picked up his scoops without proper attribution. The “thievery trifecta” called…
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When LA Weekly’s Mike Penner / Christine Daniels story was on the GLAAD list
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → Every January the GLAAD Media Awards nominations roll out, and every January most outlets cover the film and TV slates and skip the print ones. The 2011 list is worth revisiting because the Los Angeles entries on it are a small…
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The LA Times editorial board on Manning at Quantico — and how the story ended
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In January 2011, the Los Angeles Times editorial board ran a piece calling attention to the detention conditions of the WikiLeaks source held at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. FishbowlLA’s pickup praised the editorial as belated but consequential. Then…
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When Deadline launched a Facebook game with Paramount — a 2011 cross-promo curio
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In July 2011 Deadline.com partnered with Paramount Digital Entertainment and Liquid Entertainment to launch a Facebook game letting players experience the equivalent of running a Hollywood studio. Then The pitch was a Facebook-platform game built around the studio-mogul fantasy genre —…
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When Nikki Finke replied to THR’s lawyers — and the trade war went legal
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In the fall of 2011 the Variety / Deadline / Hollywood Reporter rivalry stopped being a column-mention skirmish and became a federal lawsuit. The opening salvo of the public phase was Nikki Finke posting her unredacted email response to Prometheus Global…
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Hailee Steinfeld at 14 — the True Grit launch and a career that has very much continued
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In December 2010, fourteen-year-old Hailee Steinfeld — Thousand Oaks resident, newcomer star of the Coen brothers’ True Grit — was the awards-season story everyone in LA media was writing about. The FishbowlLA framing placed her in a small lineage: Keisha Castle-Hughes…
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The #MooreandMe Twitter pile-on — and what it told us about a platform that no longer exists
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2010) · Wayback archive → Before “platform pile-on” was a fixed phrase and before X stopped being Twitter, the December 2010 #MooreandMe campaign was the genre’s prototype: a hashtag aimed at two cable-left celebrities, a refusal to let them off the hook, and a public figure…
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The Hollywood Reporter brings in a Variety veteran as associate publisher
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2010 The Hollywood Reporter’s 2010 reinvention was not only an editorial project. It was a business one — and that meant hiring on the sales side, too. Then In December 2010, FishbowlLA reported that Variety veteran Craig Hitchcock had signed on…