Mediabistro.com community manager Seamus Condron welcomes party-goers to the Tweetup

As Social Media Week continues in full force in New York, members of media are swarming and gathering in large groups to keep warm and dry and out of the NYC winter slush.

One of last night’s biggest events was hosted by mediabistro.com at Turtle Bay, a social media Tweetup that drew a hefty crowd filled to the brim with social media experts and community managers from media outfits across the city.

For more photos of the lively crowd, check out the Flickr photostream.

(Photos by Ari Scott)

Did The Nielsen Co. have an opportunity to sell newspaper industry trade Editor & Publisher instead of shutting it down?

That’s what Alan Meckler, CEO WebMediaBrands, told FishbowlNY today. Meckler said his company, which also owns mediabistro.com, offered to take the pub off Nielsen’s hands several months ago. He said his company offered to pay nothing for the title, but was willing to take on all of their subscriber liability. Under WebMediaBrands’ oversight, E&P would have continued to produce content, although it’s likely its print version would not have survived the transition, Meckler said.

However, Nielsen declined the offer, claiming it could receive “millions” for the title, Meckler told us.

Today, E&P wrote the worst story a publication can ever produce: a report on its own closure. Reported the pub:

“The expressions of surprise and outpouring of strong support for E&P that have followed across the Web — Editor & Publisher has even hit No. 4 as a Twitter trending topic — raise the notion that the publication might yet continue in some form…As news spread of E&P‘s fate, the staffers have been inundated with calls from members of the industry it covers, and many others, expressing shock and hopes for a revival. Staff members will stay on for the remainder of 2009.”

The end of the article includes a way to contact all of the title’s staffers. Pretty smart. We think they’ll probably be getting some job offers soon.

‘Editor & Publisher’ to Cease Publication After 125 Years –Editor & Publisher

Tomorrow, Mediabistro.com is throwing a party for author — and MB instructor — Kristin Harmel to celebrate her latest novel “Italian for Beginners.”

Media professionals who stop by Hudson Terrace will be treated to drink specials featuring the delizioso “Baci” cocktail. The first few guests will get copies of Harmel’s book, and everyone will be entered into a raffle to receive two complimentary tickets to the upcoming Mediabistro panel “Creating Entertainment Content for the Web Panel” and a gift basket of goodies.

Here’s the details:

When:
Wednesday, August 12th
6:30-9:00pm

Where:
Hudson Terrace
621 W. 46th Street
(b/w 11th Avenue & West Street)

Click here to RSVP.

Learn more about Kristin Harmel here

If there’s one thing we like to do here at mediabistro.com, it’s party. Tonight, we’re offering you the opportunity to meet and network with the people who teach mediabistro.com courses at our Meet The Teachers Party.

Instructors like Alexis DiResta, Alison Pace, Beverly Goodman, Cara Birnbaum, Brett Leveridge, Cheryl Della Pietra, Christa Bourg, Christine Egan, Darragh Worland and David Tristman will all be there, and you’ll have a chance to score discounts on seminars, workshops and classes.

Interested? More details after the jump or click here to RSVP.

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After two years as publisher of Curbed, Kyle Crafton joins Sports Enthusiast Media as digital GM.

In January 2007, SEM purchased StatFox and Head2Head Sports to add to its portfolio that includes Daily Racing Form and Sports Eye Publications. In October of that same year, Arlington Capital Partners bought SEM.

Before joining Curbed, Crafton served as publisher and CFO of FishbowlNY’s parent company, mediabistro.com.

Barack Obama is not the only top story of 2008! Over at The Morning Delivery Bill Lucey has done some digging and uncovered websites such as HuffPo, Salon, and yours truly (technically mediabistro.com) who crowned others the most newsworthy this year (hello Sarah Palin!). You can find his full list here, in the meantime some highlights:

At The Huffington Post, for example, Sarah Palin‘s lavish spending was the most popular piece, which collected the most page views, while the Republican vice presidential candidate’s bikini photos was the blog post with the most page views-979 million to be exact.

At mediabistro.com, the shocking news of NBC Meet the Press host Tim Russert, dying from a heart attack at age 58 was the story that received the most reaction of the year.

Google, meanwhile, posted their most popular search terms of 2008, which shows Sarah Palin, the fastest rising search term around the globe, followed by ‘Beijing 2008,’ and Facebook.

Everybody knows that the key to succeeding in media is schmoozing! Well in New York media anyway. (The boa is optional, though clearly it has proven results). To that end, the ever industrious mediabistro.com folks who run our show (and they are seriously industrious, have you looked through all this stuff?) bring you The Press List, a weekly newsletter alerting you to upcoming media events worth knowing about. Here’s a sneak peek:

On Friday, there will be several magazine-sponsored events for your Halloween partying convenience: Esquire hosts the annual celebrity-studded Joonbug masquerade at Capitale. Hip-hopper-turned-MTV reality star Reverend Run will be the evening’s master of ceremonies. For those of you who’d rather not pony up for a ticket, Mass Appeal and Missbehave will team up with Rockstar Games to host a dance party in Williamsburg. If you’re looking for a more refined Halloween night, The Economist, kicks off its “Off The Page Discussion Series” Friday, with Leonard Lopate hosting a fittingly morbid look at the “art of obituary.” Off the Page events will continue throughout the weekend…

Interested? Sign up here. Want them to include your stuff? Just submit your event here.