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Remembering reality-TV producer Denise Cramsey
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2010 In November 2010 FishbowlLA noted Variety’s tribute to a reality-television producer whose sudden death stunned her colleagues. Then FishbowlLA pointed readers to Variety’s Stuart Levine, who had written what it called a tasteful tribute to Emmy-winning reality producer Denise Cramsey.…
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David Macaray’s 2010 ‘replacement worker’ essay — and the strike-coverage vocabulary fight
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In late November 2010, LA playwright and former union representative David Macaray published a Dissident Voice essay arguing that the term “replacement worker” — the media-neutral phrasing for someone hired to do a striking employee’s job — was a deliberate vocabulary-shift…
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Tom Christie’s 2010 exit from LA Weekly — and the last of the old guard
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2010) · Wayback archive → In mid-November 2010, Tom Christie spent his last day at LA Weekly, ending a 15-year tenure as senior features editor. The original FishbowlLA framing — “the last true stalwart of the old LA Weekly editorial guard is moving on” — is…
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The CSI creator pushes his ‘digi-novel’ experiment
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2010 In late 2010 the creator of CSI sat down with Mediabistro to talk up a format he was sure would be the future of storytelling: the ‘digi-novel.’ Then Anthony Zuiker, the mastermind of the CSI franchise, freely admitted that his…
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Anthony Zuiker’s 2010 ‘digi-novel’ bet — and the format the streaming era replaced it with
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In November 2010, CSI franchise creator Anthony Zuiker gave FishbowlLA an exclusive interview about the next installments in his “digi-novel” trilogy. Level 26: Dark Origins (2009) had been the first attempt; Dark Prophecy was the new release. Then The digi-novel format…
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Michalene Busico’s 2010 move to Robb Report — and the long Spring Street Project diaspora
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2010) · Wayback archive → In late October 2010, CurtCo Media announced that Michalene Busico — formerly executive editor of Entrepreneur, deputy features editor of the LA Times, food editor of the New York Times for five years before that — was joining Robb Report as…
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April 2010: the HBO ‘Tilda’ pilot, the Nikki Finke resemblance, and the lawsuit question
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, April 2010 In late April 2010, FishbowlLA weighed in on the HBO pilot Tilda — a project about a powerful Hollywood blogger who used her website to take on Tinseltown’s power players. When THR’s Matthew Belloni revealed the script details, the…
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The October 2010 LA Times op-ed asking if WikiLeaks could have stopped 9/11
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, October 2010 In mid-October 2010, FishbowlLA picked up an LA Times op-ed by former FBI special agent Coleen Rowley and former Federal Air Marshal Bogdan Dzakovic. The piece speculated on whether the September 11 attacks could have been averted if an…
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December 2010: the Burbank Leader’s Dan Evans and the city’s $1 million in undisclosed bonuses
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In late December 2010, FishbowlLA covered a local-government transparency fight in Burbank. The city had disclosed that — amid budget shortfalls — Burbank city employees had received roughly $1 million in bonuses the prior year. But the city would…
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An LA Times reporter faces a Berkeley audience over the teacher-ratings series
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2010 In autumn 2010 the Los Angeles Times became the story rather than the teller of it. FishbowlLA covered a UC Berkeley panel where one of the paper’s reporters defended a project that had become the center of a national argument…