David Cohen - FishbowlLA http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla LA Media News, Unspooled Copyright 2013 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:59:41 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Live from the Oscars Press Room… Thanks to this year’s nifty Oscars.com “All Access” app (pictured), it was possible to watch winners visit the backstage press room without actually having to be in the press room, suited up in journalist formal wear. So bravo to the Academy for giving FishbowlLA the ability – from the comfort of home – to track the various reporter tactics attempted deep in the bowels of the Kodak Theater.

NPR’s Amy Walters tried to get Best Adapted Screenplay winner Aaron Sorkin to bite on a Mark Zuckerberg tease, wondering how the writer felt about his subject now. But Sorkin expertly dodged the Q-trap, commending Zuckerberg for his Saturday Night Live appearance and suggesting that no one would want to have a film made about their behavior at age 19.

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]]> Richard Horgan http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/oscars-aaron-sorkin-christian-bale-inception-kodak-theater-press-room_b23329#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/oscars-aaron-sorkin-christian-bale-inception-kodak-theater-press-room_b23329 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/?p=23329 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:15:15 +0000 Spot.us Launches Two New LA Quality-of-Life Projects Spot.us, the non-profit journalistic website run by David Cohn, has just launched two new complimentary projects in Los Angeles, funded by the California Endowment. The first, called the LA Vitamin Report, is an 8-part multimedia series devoted to “quality-of-life” issues in Los Angeles. Alex Schmidt will be the project manager. Schmidt is a radio veteran who has worked as a staff reporter at WHYY, a web producer at The New Yorker, a producer at Marketplace, and a web producer at 20th TV Fox.

Schmidt’s first story for the project–about homeless children commuting hours across the city to go to school–just aired on the Madeleine Brand show today. Read more about it here.

Spot.us is also launching a complementary blog called The Daily Vitamin, which will cover the same terrain as the multimedia effort. Yours truly, Matthew Fleischer, has been named the blog editor. I’ll be posting a few times a week on issues ranging from land use to public health. I might even throw some flaneuring in there for nostalgia sake.

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]]> Matthew Fleischer http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/spot-us-launches-two-new-la-quality-of-life-projects_b14861#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/spot-us-launches-two-new-la-quality-of-life-projects_b14861 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/?p=14861 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:01:28 +0000