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Maia Lazar curates the legacy of her mother, LA journalist Cathy Seipp — December 2010
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In late December 2010, FishbowlLA covered Maia Lazar — the 21-year-old daughter of the late LA freelance journalist Cathy Seipp — and her work that holiday season curating and continuing her mother’s journalistic legacy. The original framing tracked the…
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November 2012: Elvis Mitchell, Joaquin Phoenix, and the ‘utter BS’ awards-season interview
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Mona Zhang on FishbowlLA, November 2012 In late November 2012, FishbowlLA covered the fallout from Joaquin Phoenix’s October 2012 Interview magazine conversation with film curator and KCRW host Elvis Mitchell — the interview in which Phoenix called the awards season “total, utter bullshit.” The original…
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December 2010: Douglas McFarlane’s ‘Making It in Hollywood’ — a kilt-wearing showbiz-reporter DVD
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In mid-December 2010, FishbowlLA covered Douglas McFarlane — a London-based Scotsman who by day advised banks on security and internet projects — and his tongue-in-cheek DVD Making It in Hollywood, the result of his accredited-foreign-press tours of the Oscars,…
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October 2010: Juan Williams, fired by NPR, lands a Fox News deal within a day
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, October 2010 In late October 2010, FishbowlLA covered the rapid aftermath of one of the year’s biggest public-radio controversies: NPR had fired news analyst Juan Williams over remarks about feeling nervous seeing travelers in traditional Muslim clothing — and within a…
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September 2010: an LA Times reporter faces a Berkeley panel over the paper’s teacher-evaluation series
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, September 2010 In late September 2010, FishbowlLA covered LA Times reporter Jason Felch sitting on a UC Berkeley panel to discuss the paper’s controversial series on teacher evaluations — and taking criticism in the wake of a teacher’s death. The original…
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January 2013: Tony Ortega breaks down the Lawrence Wright Scientology book excerpts
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2013 In early January 2013, FishbowlLA covered Tony Ortega’s response to two excerpts of Lawrence Wright’s forthcoming Scientology book, published in The Hollywood Reporter. The original framing tracked a small node in the dense, interlinked Scientology-journalism ecosystem of the moment.…
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January 2013: KTLA’s Elizabeth Espinosa adds CNN Latino duties
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2013 In mid-January 2013, FishbowlLA covered KTLA weekend news anchor Elizabeth Espinosa taking on a new sideline: fronting Sin Límites, a Spanish-language weekday news magazine produced by CNN Latino, airing locally on KBEH-DT Channel 63. The original framing treated the…
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March 2011: FishbowlLA’s own editor Tina Dupuy gets the Editor & Publisher treatment
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, March 2011 In late March 2011, FishbowlLA ran a small, self-referential item: its own editor, Tina Dupuy, had been interviewed by Editor & Publisher — the venerable newspaper-trade magazine — about her syndicated weekly column. The original framing was lightly winking,…
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February 2012: the AP picks up a Hollywood Reporter and Billboard news feed
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2012 In mid-February 2012, FishbowlLA covered an Associated Press announcement: the wire service had partnered with Prometheus Global Media to distribute an entertainment-industry news feed drawing on The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard. The original framing noted it added competition to…
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The 2012 Los Angeles Area Emmy winners — and the investigative reporting that took the prizes
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, August 2012 In mid-August 2012, FishbowlLA marked the 2012 Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards by spotlighting the winning investigative work — the Wi-Fi-hacking, small-claims-scamming, and HACLA-spending reports that took prizes. The original framing argued that the investigative categories were the best…