In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 1 day ago

Is journalism as we know it a dead-end career? Will the rise of citizen journalism and the Web mean we'll soon get our news from journalists with d...

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In Gawker - Posted 1 week ago

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 w...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 4 weeks ago

We support everything mediabistro.com founder Laurel Touby does because a) she's our boss and b) we really, really don't want to have to wear a boa ar...

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In Gawker - Posted 10 weeks ago

The ultimate confluence of a prestige media restaurant reviewer and prestige media restaurant has finally occurred: Frank Bruni has reviewed Michael's...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 10 weeks ago

And we have a new championWith a final answer of Galileo, Greg Lindsay completed an unlikely comeback and added yet another line to his ever-growing...

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In Gawker - Posted 14 weeks ago

Once upon a time, media bulletin board site Mediabistro had a talented, anonymous ad blogger called Agency Spy, who got good dirt and the occasional u...

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In Gawker - Posted 14 weeks ago

Daily Candy, the email newsletter for women who like to buy things, was improbably successful. Former journalist Dany Levy founded it in 2000; it quic...

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In Gawker - Posted 15 weeks ago

Mediabistro maven Laurel Touby is doing a one-hour telechat for the website Spirited Woman. This is notable for two reasons: one, you have to gawk at ...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 17 weeks ago

We love lists. Especially ones that sort of tell us what we already know, except they randomly switch it around just to keep it interesting? Make su...

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In Gawker - Posted 21 weeks ago

Boa-wearing internet entrepreneur Laurel Touby shocked and awed the media world when she sold her freelancer-helping website MediaBistro for $23 mil, ...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 24 weeks ago

Those of you who follow our twitter (we all have one, by the way) will know that FishbowlNY went to Gracie Mansion last night to hobnob with Mayor Mic...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 26 weeks ago

Sad you missed out on all the Mediabistro Circus fun? No worries, you can relive the whole thing through our exxxtended Flickr set. Whether it's a whi...

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In Gawker - Posted 26 weeks ago

There's no Gawker correspondent at this week's Mediabistro conference unless a tipster volunteer for the role. ...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 26 weeks ago

Wired magazine celebrated its fifteenth anniversary last night with a party on the rooftop of the newly opened Highbar. Despite the chilly winds the ...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 26 weeks ago

Wired magazine celebrated its fifteenth anniversary last night with a party on the rooftop of the newly opened Highbar. Despite the chilly winds the ...

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In Gawker - Posted 27 weeks ago

Freelancer-helping website MediaBistro's upcoming conference, the unfortunately-named MediaBistro Circus, may not be coming along so well: boa-wearing...

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In Gawker - Posted 27 weeks ago

Boa-wearing MediaBistro entrepreneur Laurel Touby has made the mediabaristas of New York City laugh, again and again, with her inability to use e-mail...

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In Gawker - Posted 27 weeks ago

Arianna Huffington's new book - Right Is Wrong - is as partisan a piece of political writing as any during this political season. The subtitle says it...

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In Gawker - Posted 28 weeks ago

Boa-sporting Mediabistro.com proprietress Laurel Touby continues unabated in her menacing campaign to misuse email an invention originally designed ...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 28 weeks ago

Maybe it's because we're hungover from the Laurel Touby-sponsored drinks last night, but this story from the BBC struck a chord with us this morning. ...

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