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I’d like to thank the Academy, and NPR’ — a 2007 Oscar-week thought experiment
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Greg on FishbowlLA, January 2007 In late January 2007, ahead of that year’s Academy Awards, FishbowlLA ran a light Oscar-week thought experiment imagining what an ordinary person might say given the acceptance-speech limelight. The piece was a piece of FBLA-NPR-collaboration whimsy. Then The piece was…
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Eric Mika’s 2007 plan to take The Hollywood Reporter global — print ‘defying gravity
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Greg on FishbowlLA, November 2007 In early November 2007, FishbowlLA interviewed Eric Mika — The Hollywood Reporter’s senior vice president and publishing director — about the trade’s ambitious global-expansion push. Mika told FBLA that “the Hollywood Reporter for the last several months is defying gravity,”…
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Andrew Horan rises from cub reporter to A1 editor at the Orange County Register
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Greg on FishbowlLA, 2007 In 2007, the Orange County Register was reshuffling its newsroom — and one promotion captured both a career and a paper in flux. Then FishbowlLA reported that Andrew Horan had been named A1 editor of the Orange County Register — the…
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Doug Frantz exits the LA Times — and the Baquet generation continues to thin out
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Kate Coe (2007) · Wayback archive → In late June 2007, Doug Frantz announced he was leaving the Los Angeles Times, where he had served as managing editor under Dean Baquet. He had taken the job at Baquet’s request and was widely understood to be a Baquet loyalist.…
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When Brian Grazer guest-edited the LA Times’ Current section — a 2007 experiment
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Kate Coe (2007) · Wayback archive → In March 2007 the LA Times announced that Brian Grazer would guest-edit the Sunday Op-Ed section, Current, for the March 25 issue. The pitch in the paper’s press release was that the Imagine Entertainment chairman’s “endless curiosity” would produce something unconventional.…
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Luke Thompson on Jim Rainey covering the LA Times — the recursive-reporting era
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Kate Coe (2007) · Wayback archive → In mid-February 2007 LA Weekly freelancer Luke Thompson took a hard look at the LA Times’ Jim Rainey, the paper’s media reporter who had drawn the unenviable assignment of covering Tribune Company’s ongoing woes — including, awkwardly, its impact on his…
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When the LA Times invented an ‘Innovation Editor’ role — and what happened next
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Kate Coe (2007) · Wayback archive → In late January 2007 the Los Angeles Times announced that Joel Sappell was out as Assistant Managing Editor for Interactive and that Business Editor Russ Stanton was moving into a newly created post called Innovation Editor. The title sounded like a…
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The LA Times hires a Sassy and Entertainment Weekly veteran to relaunch Calendar Weekend
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Kate on FishbowlLA, 2006 In late 2006, the Los Angeles Times was still investing in its weekend arts coverage — and went looking for an editor with magazine pedigree. Then FishbowlLA reported that LA Times editor John Montorio had told the newsroom that Mary Kaye…
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The 2006 LA Times Spring Street Project memo — read it now and weep, or read it now and learn
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Mayrav Saar (2006) · Wayback archive → The single most clarifying document about what happened to the Los Angeles Times across the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s is the seven-page internal memo a committee of Times journalists handed to incoming editor James O’Shea on December 1, 2006. FishbowlLA published…
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Greg Stacy’s December 2006 OC Weekly farewell — the freelance-cut and the alt-weekly contraction’s early signal
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Kate Coe on FishbowlLA, December 2006 In late December 2006, OC Weekly film writer Greg Stacy was informed — days before Christmas — that he was being let go as part of the Village Voice chain’s plan to stop using freelancers altogether. Stacy had been…