Last night I attended the big, big
tenth anniversary party for Mediabistro, which has grown from a series of cocktail parties into a huge media Web site that also throws cocktail parties. The slightly too-small room was packed past fire code violation point with the usual suspects, who drift aimlessly from media party to media party throughout New York in search of their own souls.
The party doubled as an awards show for ten notables from every media-related category.
Ken Sunshine was there representing the PR industry, along with fellow honorees including
New York Magazine editor Adam Moss,
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, and NPR correspondent
Adam Davidson. The one honoree that everybody (or me, at least) actually showed up to see,
Stephen Colbert, didn't make it. Dang.
Mediabistro founder Laurel Touby gave a quick, loud speech and handed out the awards with accompanying shrieks of... joy? She referred to
Adam Moss as a "hot babe," a questionable characterization. I spent most of my brief time at the party waiting in line to pay $7 for a Red Bull, and chatting with new (young) NYT TV writer
Brian Stelter and new (still young enough)
PRNewser blogger Jason Chupick, who in a previous life actually represented PRWeek while working at Plesser Holland.
You're moving up in the world, Jason!