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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…
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Louis B. Fleming, an original LA Times foreign correspondent, dies at 85
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 The Los Angeles Times built its mid-century reputation partly on an ambitious foreign desk. Louis B. Fleming helped build it. Then In March 2011, FishbowlLA marked the death of Louis B. Fleming, one of the Los Angeles Times’ original foreign…
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Ashley Dunn becomes LA Times’ California editor — the appointment that produced the ‘we give ulcers’ memo
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In late March 2011 LA Times editor Russ Stanton named Ashley Dunn the paper’s new California editor, replacing David Lauter — who had moved to become Tribune Company’s Washington bureau chief. Four months later Dunn would be the editor sending the…
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FishbowlLA’s own editor sits for an Editor & Publisher Q&A
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, 2011 In March 2011 the FishbowlLA editor turned the lens around, noting that she herself had been the subject of an Editor & Publisher interview — a small, knowing bit of media-covering-media. Then The post pointed readers to a Q&A by…