Laurel Touby, a journalist for 10 years prior to her entrepreneurial career, founded mediabistro.com in 1993 as a gathering place for professionals in journalism, publishing and other media-related industries in New York City. She currently serves as chief executive officer. As a Web-based business, the company now attracts such professionals from across the country and sponsors parties, classes and seminars in major U.S-based cities and abroad. Monthly traffic to the Web site has soared to more than 5.4 million page views and 600,000 unique visitors. Touby had started her journalism at Working Woman magazine, moved to Business Week as a staff editor, and in 1993 began writing a column on workplace issues for Glamour. As a freelance journalist, she has covered everything from travel to business to breast cancer for a variety of publications, among them New York, Travel & Leisure, Self, and Working Mother. She is a graduate of Smith College with a degree in economics.

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