Kevin Roderick

LA Observed Celebrates 6 Years - Posted June 1, 2009
We made it to the rooftop party at the Formosa this past Friday to celebrate the six year anniversary of popular media blog LA Observed. That's over 12,000 posts, according to LAO creator Kevin Roderick (or K-Rod, as we like to call him)(Not to his face). There were a gajillion people... [FishBowlLA]

LAT Front Page Ad Could Have Been Even Worse - Posted April 9, 2009
Seems the original plan for the front page Southland advertisement would have been even more intrusive. Kevin Roderick at LA Observed has the scoop: Newsroom sources say that as of Tuesday, publisher Eddy Hartenstein had OK'd giving over all of column six - the right-hand column where the day's lede story runs... [FishBowlLA]

LAT Front Page Ad Could Have Been Even Worse - Posted April 9, 2009
Seems the original plan for the front page Southland advertisement would have been even more intrusive. Kevin Roderick at LA Observed has the scoop: Newsroom sources say that as of Tuesday, publisher Eddy Hartenstein had OK'd giving over all of column six - the right-hand column where the day's lede story runs... [FishBowlLA]

More Layoffs At LA Times - Posted March 23, 2009
The next wave of layoffs and buyouts at the Times has begun. Kevin Roderick at LA Observed has been hearing from those on the inside: Most guesses I'm hearing put the number at more than 50, with the editor ranks expected to take the heaviest hit. These are the delayed execution (second... [FishBowlLA]

More Layoffs At LA Times - Posted March 23, 2009
The next wave of layoffs and buyouts at the Times has begun. Kevin Roderick at LA Observed has been hearing from those on the inside: Most guesses I'm hearing put the number at more than 50, with the editor ranks expected to take the heaviest hit. These are the delayed execution (second... [FishBowlLA]

Bankrupt Round-Up - Posted December 10, 2008
Kevin Roderick is reporting that the Tribune Company is freezing pending payments to freelancers. NewsBlues ran a chilling story about all the recent layoffs: Tribune also says severance payments to recently laid-off employees, deferred compensation, and other payments to former workers have been discontinued. Essentially, those former employees become creditors who will have... [FishBowlLA]

SPJ/LA Honors Journos - Posted November 24, 2008
No this isn't like the Pulitzers last year...this time LA won...ahem. And no, we just never get tired of that joke...ever. Society of Professional Journalists - Greater Los Angeles Chapter will honor five local journalists, a photographer and two attorneys at its 33rd annual awards banquet this spring. The Distinguished Journalist honorees are Paul... [FishBowlLA]

Madeleine Albright Sells Book, Stumps For Obama At The Grove - Posted October 23, 2008
We made it to the Grove last night (where we bumped into L.A. Observed's Kevin Roderick -- small world) to hear Madeleine Albright speak about her book, Memo To the President: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership. While she described the book-as-memo conceit "a gimmick," she made some very salient... [FishBowlLA]

LAO Afraid Sources Have Been Allegedly Compromised Which Makes for a Perfect Post - Posted October 8, 2008
LA Observed's Kevin Roderick's 'sources' - man/woman/animal lover on the inside at the LAT's - job has been threatened. His Deep Throat is in Deep Shit. Which makes for the perfect civil disobedient - alas most self-important post we've ever read: I've never felt the need to do this before, but it... [FishBowlLA]

LAO Spots The Problem - Posted September 23, 2008
Words are totally unnecessary in this case, but if you want to read Kevin Roderick's, you can right here. ... [FishBowlLA]

UPDATE: Kevin Roderick Vs. Eric Longabardi - Posted August 14, 2008
Going into far more detail on L.A. Observed than he did with us here at Fishbowl LA, Kevin Roderick blasts Eric Longabardi's latest ERSNews.com post, saying "On these kind of phony hits motivated by link envy, the backstory is the most interesting part." We love court side seats to mud-slinging matches. So... [FishBowlLA]

Kevin Roderick Vs. Eric Longabardi: Two People You Don't Want to See in a Bikini Mud Wrestling Match - Posted August 13, 2008
We're not sure what bloggers Kevin Roderick and Eric Longabardi have against each other, but we know they won't be sharing a toothbrush any time soon. Longabardi, over at ERSNews.com, reports that K-Rod is grossly exaggerating his claims to two staff-awarded L.A. Times Pulitzers. For his part, L.A. Observed's Roderick... [FishBowlLA]

Jim Newton Out Of L.A. Times - Posted June 3, 2008
While we were busy trying to confirm the truth of this, Kevin Roderick got the goods. Gotta give it up to L.A. Observed for having the story. After two decades at the paper, Jim Newton is leaving to pursue book authoring. As our source put it, "With Jim Newton gone, you... [FishBowlLA]

Is L.A. Observed Dissing Ron Kaye? - Posted May 30, 2008
We honestly can't tell by this post. We'd normally just e-mail Kevin Roderick directly and ask, but we decided to take a page out of John Mayer's play book. Really, just so we could post a picture of John Mayer.... [FishBowlLA]

Ken Reich: L.A. Times Becoming A "Lauging Stock" - Posted April 28, 2008
Former L.A. Times editor Ken Reich has some harsh words for new head ed Russ Stanton and his policies -- particularly the "cracking down" on using anonymous sources. Reich notes that former LAT reporter Barry Bearak had a terrifically interesting account in the Sunday NYT of his imprisonment for publishing reports... [FishBowlLA]

SoCal and the Pulitzer: We Stand Corrected So Much, We're Actually Going to Sit Down Now, Thank You - Posted April 15, 2008
So, remember when we said that Mark Katches was the closest thing to a Pulitzer SoCal got? And then it turned out that a former local freelancer won in Bangkok? And then Veronique de Turenne reminded us that, actually, the LAT garnered two finalists slots? Well, now, Kevin Roderick at... [FishBowlLA]

FBLA Goes to the Party: Weisberg Book Party - Posted February 21, 2008
Slate's Jacob Weisberg read from his new book The Bush Tragedy at a Domino-sponored shindig in Brentwood. 300 guests stormed Arianna Huffington's mansion house. (Or home, as the invitations read.) Adrian Grenier, sporting a beard that would have been a bushy tragedy on anyone else, Tracey Ullman, who does a wicked... [FishBowlLA]

LA Weekly's Laurie Ochoa 's Letter to LA Observed - Posted September 27, 2007
LA Weekly EIC Laurie Ochoa's email to Kevin Roderick: Kevin, I know it makes juicier blog posts to tie everything that happens at the LA Weekly to some kind of Mike Lacey conspiracy against the very paper he owns, but Monday's item about the Weekly's new office location being Lacey's revenge on... [FishBowlLA]

Daniel Hernandez Says Adios to LA Weekly - Posted September 14, 2007
Daniel Hernandez has sealed the deal with Scribners to write a book about the book about the youth and subcultures of Mexico City, which started as a LA Weekly cover story. Gustavo Arnello gets all emo at the news. ... [FishBowlLA]

Daniel Hernandez Says Adios to LA Weekly - Posted September 14, 2007
Daniel Hernandez has sealed the deal with Scribners to write a book about the book about the youth and subcultures of Mexico City, which started as a LA Weekly cover story. Gustavo Arnello gets all emo at the news. ... [FishBowlLA]

K-Rod's Getting Some R&R. Does Anybody Notice? - Posted August 30, 2007
Big ups for Veronique de Turenne, who has taken the helm at LA Observed this week while former LAT-ian Kevin Roderick is on vacation. We like her quick take on the day's news in the Morning Buzz section -- and don't miss reading LAT's internal e-mails one bit. Maybe K-Rod should stay... [FishBowlLA]

WWD Not Talking About Jacob Bernstein, Nikki Finke - Posted July 16, 2007
WWD isn't talking about Jacob Bernstein's profile of Nikki Finke that disappeared from the online archives, despite being published over the July 4th weekend. Andrea Kaplan told FBLA "we have no comment". We asked Luke Ford if WWD was making him take down his post quoting from the story. He told... [FishBowlLA]

Wiener & Pals Recall the Good Old Days at the LA Weekly---It's All Jill Stewart's Fault - Posted June 29, 2007
In The Nation, Jon Wiener, the UCI prof and John Lennon expert, bewails the new era or rather the passing of the old era at the LA Weekly. He has reinforcements from Tim Rutten, Kevin Roderick, and Harold Meyerson, and to summarize: it's all Jill Stewart's fault. Matt Welch, on book leave... [FishBowlLA]

Who Let The Blogs Out?--LA Bloggers Scrap at W Hotel Tonight - Posted June 26, 2007
Join Fishbowl LA's Kate Coe at a Poolside Chat--Who Let the Blogs Out?--tonight at 7 pm at the W Hotel in Westwood. Part of the LA Film Festival, this lively panel is sponsored by Film Independent. L.A.'s blogistocracy will flap their gums about the on-line merging of celebrity, industry news, and popular... [FishBowlLA]

David Zahniser Moves to LA Times--Look Out, Mr. Mayor! - Posted June 22, 2007
The LA Weekly loses David Zahniser to the LA Times. The veteran City Hall reporter will be covering Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Kevin Roderick at LA Observed observes: I don't know what it means for Duke Helfand, who has been on the Antonio beat for the Times, but the hire should mean sharper,... [FishBowlLA]

Kevin Roderick and LA Observed--The Future Will be Raucous - Posted May 10, 2007
Kevin Roderick, paterfamilias of LA Observed tells Ella Taylor in the LA Weekly that while his readership skews older, it's an entry-level blog, a set of training wheels that offers a bridge between mainstream journalism and new media he's got the mindset of the rave set: As the mainstream media take over online,... [FishBowlLA]

Andres Martinez, Kelly Mullens, Brian Grazer: Three's Company - Posted March 21, 2007
FBLA thinks this is almost too good to be true: Andres Martinez, the Op-Ed Editor at the LA Times has been dating Kelly Mullens, who was an executive with Sitrick and Company. One of that firm's clients is Brian Grazer, the guest editor of this weekend's Current section. Former Sitrick exec.,... [FishBowlLA]

Tribune Pays by the Post/Vegan Chef Pays With Hot Air - Posted February 1, 2007
Over at LA Observed, Kevin Roderick is showing his old-media roots. Tribune is looking for entry-level writers for a local entertainment site aimed at 18-to-34-year-olds where they'll post about clubs, bars etc. And they'll get paid by the post, which is pretty standard, but KRod sees doom ahead. FBLA is... [FishBowlLA]

Tribune Pays by the Post/Vegan Chef Pays With Hot Air - Posted February 1, 2007
Over at LA Observed, Kevin Roderick is showing his old-media roots. Tribune is looking for entry-level writers for a local entertainment site aimed at 18-to-34-year-olds where they'll post about clubs, bars etc. And they'll get paid by the post, which is pretty standard, but KRod sees doom ahead. FBLA is... [FishBowlLA]

LA Observed Predicts Top Stories of 2007/No Pop Culture - Posted January 26, 2007
Over at LAObserved, the results are in for the top news stories of 2007. No, that's not a typo--Kevin Roderick invited readers to predict the future. Winning entry: Eli Broad buys LAT The top vote getter in the "Longshot I'd love to see" category: Joel Stein embeds in Iraq FBLA was disappointed that there was... [FishBowlLA]

LA Observed Predicts Top Stories of 2007/No Pop Culture - Posted January 26, 2007
Over at LAObserved, the results are in for the top news stories of 2007. No, that's not a typo--Kevin Roderick invited readers to predict the future. Winning entry: Eli Broad buys LAT The top vote getter in the "Longshot I'd love to see" category: Joel Stein embeds in Iraq FBLA was disappointed that there was... [FishBowlLA]

LA Press Club Presents CNN's Nicole Lapin Discussing Citizen Journalism - Posted January 17, 2007
Join CNN Pipeline Anchor, Nicole Lapin, tomorrow for a panel on the future of broadcast journalism in the age of citizen journalism. Lapin is a news anchor with CNN Pipeline, CNN.com's premium commercial-free broadband video news service.One of Los Angeles' most popular citizen journalists, Kevin Roderick, will be moderating. LA... [FishBowlLA]

LA Press Club Presents CNN's Nicole Lapin Discussing Citizen Journalism - Posted January 17, 2007
Join CNN Pipeline Anchor, Nicole Lapin, tomorrow for a panel on the future of broadcast journalism in the age of citizen journalism. Lapin is a news anchor with CNN Pipeline, CNN.com's premium commercial-free broadband video news service.One of Los Angeles' most popular citizen journalists, Kevin Roderick, will be moderating. LA... [FishBowlLA]