Mediabistro’s Laurel Touby, who has been on a sabbatical of sorts, traveling with her husband, former Businessweek columnist Jon Fine, is back in the office.
Ms. Touby made $23 million from her sale of the site in 2007. She sent the following email, announcing that she will be working two days a week, to Read More
After selling her Web site mediabistro.com for $23 million, Laurel Touby told The Times that she had somewhere between $9 million to $11 million in her bank account after taxes. “I had all kinds of illusions about how far the money would go and what I would enjoy, but they’re not true,” The Read More
Yesterday evening at the Four Seasons, scores of well-dressed Manhattan women gathered to chat and mingle at the fifth annual Dinner & Dis(course) cocktail and dinner party. The event, organized by MediaBistro.com, drew together an array of female leaders in the magazine industry, along with one visibly uncomfortable male, Media Bistro associate editor Noah Read More
Laurel Touby has sold her media gossip/bulletin board/media YMCA superstructre for a lot of money.
Drumroll: $23 million.
Here's the Times lead, which Ms. Touby posted to her own Web site just as the only people likely to be interested were trying to figure out whether Rupert Murdoch was going to get away with buying Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
