The email came in with a simple header: "WTF?" Let's just say it was from someone "close to the organization," with this news: Internet research company Jupitermedia just scooped up Mediabistro for $23 million. Pretty nice payday for the media job site/message board/information hub/mini-university/blog network that grew over a decade out of Laurel Touby's brainchild: The little cocktail-party media networking group that could.
Flashback to a year ago: Last June, Gawker reported...
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