We're happy to introduce our new guest contributor to FishbowlLA, Claude Brodesser:

Claude started at mediabistro in September 2005, after an eight year stint as a film reporter at Daily Variety and Variety. He continues to serve as the host of KCRW's "The Business," the National Public Radio show about the business of entertainment that's carried in Los Angeles, New York and Washington D.C., among other markets. Claude's freelance work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Premiere, Entertainment Weekly and US Weekly. In his spare time, he is the lucky fiance of mediabistro.com West Coast Director of Education Taffy Akner.

Claude will be blogging about film and entertainment.