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Mediabistro’s post-Oscars Google+ Hangout — February 2013, and a platform that didn’t last
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2013 In late February 2013, FishbowlLA promoted a Mediabistro post-Oscars Google+ Hangout — a live video discussion of the 85th Academy Awards. The piece previewed the big questions: could Emmanuelle Riva, the oldest Best Actress nominee in Academy history, upset…
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March 2013: San Diego’s Doug Porter on the Koch-Manchester-Tribune buyout rumors
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2013 In mid-March 2013, FishbowlLA tracked San Diego Free Press columnist Doug Porter’s skeptical reaction to the swirling rumors that the Koch brothers — possibly in partnership with San Diego U-T owner Doug Manchester — might buy the Tribune Company’s…
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Courtney Friel says goodbye to FOX 11 — February 2013, after six years at KTTV
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2013 In mid-February 2013, FishbowlLA covered entertainment reporter Courtney Friel’s farewell to FOX 11 (KTTV) after six years with the LA station and its sister network. Friel told FBLA her first priority was some quiet weekend time at home with…
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler work the Golden Globes Q&A trail — January 2013 BFF hosting cycle
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2013 In mid-January 2013, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler executed a substantial press-tour cycle ahead of their first co-hosting turn at the Golden Globes. The cycle included exclusive interviews with The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly, plus a Wednesday-afternoon conference…
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Pete Hammond’s Cannes Great Gatsby coverage — May 2013, Deadline vs TheWrap vs the Drudge boost
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2013 In mid-May 2013, Deadline.com’s Pete Hammond produced an opening-night-at-Cannes piece on The Great Gatsby’s festival debut. The original FishbowlLA framing flagged a specific editorial-methodology issue. TheWrap had Alonso Duralde’s parallel coverage; the Drudge Report boost amplified the broader Cannes-press…
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Mary Thom dies, HuffPost Live goes cable, AOL Music axed — Morning Media Newsfeed for April 29, 2013
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Donya Blaze on FishbowlLA, April 2013 On April 29, 2013, FishbowlLA ran one of its Morning Media Newsfeed roundups. The lead story was the death of Mary Thom, the longtime Ms. magazine editor, who had died at 68 in an upstate New York motorcycle accident.…
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Erin Aubry Kaplan’s January 2013 KCET column — a Leimert Park reader, an off-line phone call, and Black-LA-Times coverage
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2013 In early January 2013, Erin Aubry Kaplan’s first KCET blog post of the new year — published in KCET’s SoCal Focus commentary section — drew an unusual reader response: a 74-year-old Leimert Park grandmother named Ann did not Google…
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Araksya Karapetyan’s May 2013 FOX 11 Morning News promotion — the KFI-to-FOX 11 LA-broadcast lane
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2013 In mid-May 2013, FOX 11 LA promoted Araksya Karapetyan to full-time anchor on its Morning News broadcast. Karapetyan had started her broadcast career while at the Newhouse School at Syracuse, interning at LA’s KFI AM 640 and KABC-TV; she…
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NPR’s 2013 ‘Coffee Week’ profile of The ESPRESSO — and the SoCal cafe-culture argument about Wi-Fi
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2013 In late April 2013, NPR’s The Salt food blog ran a profile of John A. Rippo, publisher of the San Diego monthly The ESPRESSO and its companion daily website. The piece was part of NPR’s themed “Coffee Week” —…
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Jim Carroll’s 2013 Irish Times column on KCRW — and the international public-radio music-discovery model
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2013 In late March 2013, Irish Times music writer Jim Carroll published a column in praise of KCRW and the broader public-radio music-discovery model. The column landed in front of KCRW general manager Jennifer Ferro and the rest of the…