You all know the tale: MediaBistro started as a series of cocktail networking parties hosted by Laurel Touby, who then realized she could monetize a website by charging (voluntarily, at first) for job postings. Then came the classes, which are totally overpriced especially when compared with nearly identical, yet much longer, journalism classes at the New School. (I've taken both!) Then came the seminars would you pay $75 to watch dubious dating columnist Julia Allison and others talk about personal branding? MediaBistro makes money by getting people to pay them to learn how to break into ...

• Related Media
• Comments
• Share
• Email