Posts Tagged ‘Laurel Touby’

On this, Columbus Day 2010, it gives me great pleasure to be able to introduce myself as FishbowlLA’s newest blogger.

When I moved from Toronto to Los Angeles in the late fall of 1993, I did what any self-respecting Canadian would: I drove around at night with the convertible top down, marveling at the balmy low-50′s temperatures. As winter season approaches, a new wave of Canadian and Scandinavian west coast transplants will no doubt soon be cruising down Sunset Boulevard in similar fashion.

Since my arrival in L.A., I have hung out at the House of Blues Foundation Room with Jimi Hendrix Jr.; helped filmmaker Brian Herzlinger land a date with Drew Barrymore; felt the wrath of Mel Gibson after authoring an article about video piracy; and become fascinated with North Korea as a result of starting a grassroots Twitter and WordPress campaign in 2009 on behalf of detained Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.

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Business Week columnist Jon Fine just announced via Twitter that he won’t be returning. Fine’s wife is the founder of Mediabistro Laurel Touby.

This is Steve Krakauer with Mediabistro.com Founder Laurel Touby, Jon Fine of Businessweek and Glynnis MacNicol of FishbowlNY.

They discuss paid content on the internet, Playboy’s potential sale (and print vs. internet porn), Conan’s move to LA and more.

Listen here.

mediabistro.com founder Laurel Touby is in Long Beach this week for TED2009. She’s been Twittering all week, so we thought we’d share the feed here on FishbowlLA. Click here to follow Laurel…

Craiglist’s Craig Newmark will be there, along with Fred Durham of Cafe Press, Bruce Livingstone and Kelly Thompson of iStockphoto and Guy Kawasaki of Garage Technology.

And our fearless leader – Laurel Touby will be making the rounds. Today is the last day to get the ‘early bird’ rate on the conference. But Laurel said she will hook you up with the special rate until the end of the week because you’re FBLA readers and you deserve it. Seriously.

From their site:
What’s UGCX all about?

User-generated content is a rapidly developing revolution in media. “Average Joe” internet users now wield power over online content, and new business models are emerging in response to this shift. UGCX is the first conference and expo organized to bring together content-trendsetters and business leaders in various fields to examine how these worlds collide and what the future holds. This new mediabistro.com event will unlock the knowledge businesses and non-profits need to respond to this shift.

The conference is Feb. 9-10 in San Jose. Register here.

These are our bosses, by the way. We just want that stated…for the record.

This is Laurel Touby with Chris Ariens on the far right. There’s also TVNewser Associate Editor Steve Krakauer and Magic Wall guy Jeff Han.

More info about the summit can be found here.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles kicked off the 2008 A Season of Wishes holiday campaign this weekend at Westfield Topanga.

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NYU business professor Reed Martin has decided that he can teach the up-and-comers in the film biz about the film biz.

He convinced Farrar, Strauss & Giroux to publish his tome in January. It ostensibly looks to dissect the marketing strategies that face the independent filmmakers across the country.

Per an email Martin sent to mediabistro.com founder Laurel Touby as well other colleagues in the media:

“I have been working on it forever and ever and it’s finally done. In this down economy, more people than ever are going to try to make their first film for Sundance but many have no idea of what they are about to put themselves and their significant others through.

My book contains interviews with 100 biggest names in the indie sector talking about what they wish they had known before they started and the pitfalls that almost stopped them cold. It’s called “The Reel Truth” and it’ll be out shortly after the new year. But, if I can get enough pre-orders, I can get a Barnes & Noble tour set up. So I am trying to get the word out now.

It’s the perfect thing for the aspiring Chris Nolan or the Miranda July or the aspiring Tarantino in everyone’s family.”

Having contributed before to a film marketing book, all we can say is GOOD LUCK. Those books are nightmares to sell.

The Village Voice profiles Laurel Touby, the founder of mediabistro.com, ie our boss, whom we’ve never actually met.

But why did Tricia Romano, the former nightlife columnist, catch the assignment? Does mb.com have bottle service at the NYC parties?