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Two Hollywoods on one Hollywood Reporter week — Norman Lloyd’s 98 years and the Next Gen 2012 list
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, November 2012 In early November 2012, The Hollywood Reporter staged two cultural-celebration events in the same week that captured opposite ends of the industry’s generational range. The Next Gen 2012 list — Hollywood’s fastest-rising executives and creatives under 35 — was…
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January 2012’s Deadline-vs-Variety time-stamp fight — Mike Fleming responds to Emma Stone and Sundance scoop accusations
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2012 In late January 2012, Deadline.com’s Mike Fleming publicly responded to back-to-back Variety.com blog posts that had insinuated Deadline had been falsifying the time-stamps on its Emma Stone and Sundance Film Festival scoops. Fleming’s response was that the accusations were…
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Hollywood Reporter’s Kim Dotcom cover story — Daniel Miller, Matthew Belloni, and the Megaupload prosecution
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2012 In early May 2012, The Hollywood Reporter ran a cover story on Kim Dotcom — the Megaupload founder whose January 2012 New Zealand arrest had triggered one of the most-cited copyright-and-platform legal cases of the era. Daniel Miller and…
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Joseph Kapsch’s April 2012 jump from THR to Celebuzz — and the Dylan Howard reunion
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In late April 2012, Hollywood Reporter writer Joseph Kapsch announced he was leaving THR.com to join Celebuzz.com as executive editor under Dylan Howard. Then Dylan Howard had been one of the most-active editorial figures in American celebrity-news through the…
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LA Weekly’s stages of grief over Jonathan Gold’s exit — Amy Scattergood and the February 2012 staff mood
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, February 2012 In late February 2012, the impending departure of Jonathan Gold from LA Weekly back to the LA Times started to substantially affect the alt-weekly’s staff mood. Amy Scattergood, the editor of LA Weekly’s Squid Ink food blog, posted her…
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James Rainey leaves the LA Times media column for the politics desk — July 2012
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, July 2012 In late July 2012, LA Times media reporter James Rainey announced he was switching beats to politics ahead of the 2012 election cycle. He would be giving up his media column to contribute to the Times’s political blog Politics…
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KPCC’s Tony Pierce gives LA Times LAUSD coverage an F — April 2012 schools-press critique
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In mid-April 2012, KPCC’s Tony Pierce posted a sharp critique of how LA Times reporter Howard Blume had been covering an LAUSD proposal to eliminate D-grades from passing-grade calculations. Pierce’s blog post called out the structural under-resourcing of LA…
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Hollywood Reporter’s 2012 Rule Breakers — Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, and the year-end double issue
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2012 In mid-December 2012, The Hollywood Reporter shipped its year-end double issue with four different Rule Breakers covers — Oprah Winfrey, Quentin Tarantino, Psy, and one other featured subject. Winfrey’s cover-story interview tracked the OWN turnaround that had begun rescuing…
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Diana Munatones, broadcast journalist and former LAUSD spokesperson, dies at 66 — March 2012 obit
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, March 2012 In mid-March 2012, broadcast journalist and former LAUSD spokesperson Diana Munatones died at 66 of unspecified causes at Arcadia Methodist Hospital. The Bell Gardens Sun ran the most substantive obituary, framing her career as one of the trailblazing Latina…
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Dawn Hudson’s first AMPAS interview — Stephen Galloway’s February 2012 Hollywood Reporter sit-down
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2012 In late February 2012, Hollywood Reporter executive features editor Stephen Galloway landed the first on-record interview with new Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Dawn Hudson. The piece dropped just before the 84th Academy Awards. Then Dawn…