Today marks my first official day as editor of Fishbowl NY, and rest assured, this will be one of the first and last posts "about" me. But here goes: Before taking mediabistro's managing editor, media news slot, I was at FOLIO:, the revered magazine about magazines located in historic South Norwalk, CT (or, as I like to call it, "Brooklyn Way East"), where my focus was on amping up its online news coverage, traffic and always-indefinable "cool" factor. I plan to do the same, and much more, here.

In its relatively short history, FishbowlNY has been home to some of the finest writers I know, including Elizabeth Spiers, Rachel Sklar, current co-managing editor Aileen Gallagher and the omnipresent Greg Lindsay, among others. Shaq-sized shoes to fill, I realize. To me, this blog is as much yours as it is mine, so please drop me a line early and often with news, feedback, gossip, classified documents. You know, the real good dirt.

One final note: I have always held that my three dream jobs in the NYC media world would be, in no particular order: staff writer for The Onion or Daily Show; a beat reporter for the New York Mets (circa '86); and working for mediabistro, a great group of people I've admired for a long time.

So here I am, with plenty of game, a mean crossover and hopefully great things ahead.