Mediagazer: How Elizabeth Spiers got Mediabistro noticed - then failed to profit from its sale (Jim Romenesko)

4:20 PM ET, November 15, 2012

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Jim Romenesko:

How Elizabeth Spiers got Mediabistro noticed - then failed to profit from its sale — When Mediabistro was sold in 2007, I told some people that I thought Elizabeth Spiers deserved at least a few of the millions that Laurel Touby took to the bank. — Touby (left) and Spiers

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Penelope Green / New York Times:
The Loft That Mediabistro Built

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

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