The Snob Blog is the creation of Jeremy Murphy, who designed
the website as an off-shoot of his column, "The Travel Snob," which is
published every other month in Simply the Best magazine. Murphy, who
is based in New York City, has been writing their travel features for
seven years now, including its annual rankings of the "Best Hotels in
the World."
Though travel writing is his passion, Murphy's real job is with CBS
Television, where he serves as a Vice President in its Communications
Department. Among his responsibilities are editing their new consumer
fanzine Watch, a bi-monthly publication that goes out to 400,000
readers across the U.S., and publishing the corporation's annual Social
Responsibility Report, a yearly publication that highlights the
company's good deeds through its various divisions. Even a cynic like
Murphy is impressed with the depth and breadth of the company's
commitment to these causes, and this is someone who used to be a
journalist, and so naturally believes everyone is lying and full of shit.
Previously, he worked as a reporter for Mediaweek, a trade magazine
covering the media buying and planning sides of the industry.
He covered the local television stations beat, and accumulated four
cover stories during his year and a half with the magazine. He credits
his experience at Mediaweek, working with Editors Bill Gloede and
Michael Burgi, with teaching him the industry. Though the late Friday
deadlines positively sucked, he nevertheless looks upon this time
fondly, depending, of course, on the right prescription dosage at the
time.
Before moving to New York for Mediaweek, Murphy worked as a
feature writer and columnist for the Bradenton Herald, a Knight Ridder
newspaper on the southwest coast of Florida (KR has since been sold
to McClatchy, one of the better newspaper companies out there, not
that there's much of a difference anymore). At the paper, he covered
general lifestyle topics, in addition to serving as the local TV columnist
and following the society beat. His column, "Scene & Heard," cast a
tongue-in-cheek look at the region's philanthropic and social scene.
Though often mistaken for the valet, he nevertheless developed a
niche on the party scene with his twice-weekly column. He also
launched two campaigns for the betterment of life on the Gulf Coast --
the "Bring Starbucks to Bradenton" drive, which didn't get any
signatures except for a paw print from the cat living under his
apartment staircase, and the "Pay Jeremy's Citibank Balance" fund,
which sadly never qualified for matching donations from the United
Way. His time in Bradenton was not a total loss, though. It was there he
developed a taste for foie gras, thanks to his friend Sean Murphy's
Beach Bistro restaurant, where be became the establishment's resident
Norm Peterson. Bitches can't beat that now, can you?
Before that, he worked as a copy editor/ feature writer for the
Boca Raton News, a once quality paper that soon devolved into a rag
not worthy of fish wrapping. Dog training, maybe, but definitely below
birdcage liner, especially under publisher Michael Martin. However,
when Murphy was there it was definitely mediocre and on good days
not such a bad read. Like his time at the Bradenton Herald, the young
scribe made many life-long friends during this time, especially over
Bahama Burgers at Guppies, a dive bar located just a few blocks from
the paper's crappy, Motel 6-esque headquarters. Editor's Note: The
Boca News of today is said to be a much better paper with a talented
staff of writers. No word on whether it's still good for puppy training.
Murphy graduated from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla.,
where he majored in Communications. Though he'd like to say he
chose the university for its fine academic record and picture-esque
Boca Raton setting, the truth is he didn't want to leave home. However,
it was at FAU that Murphy gained his journalistic footing. With his
partner in crime Jennifer Goddard, he won control of the student
newspaper, the Free Press (which was quickly rebranded The
University Press; eww, just typing that former name makes me want to
take a shower), and quickly staged a complete turn-around of the
mis-managed (that's being generous) publication. As Editors, Murphy
and Goddard fired everyone, revamped the entire look and feel of the
paper, out-sourced its advertising function to the local paper and
instilled a whole new era of profitability, stability and journalism
excellence. That didn't stop the administration from dissolving its
publication committee and washing its hands of the paper, but that's
grist for a whole other website.
As a teenager, Murphy gained national recognition for publishing
his very own fanzine from his home. The magazine, called
Entertainment 2000, covered all aspects of the entertainment industry,
written completely from a 16-year-old's perspective, typos et all.
Though it started as a handwritten, sloppily designed and photo-copied
newsletter, the magazine later evolved into a monthly publication with a
10,000 circulation, printed on a very large web press by a company
that later threatened to sue for the non-payment of the bill.
the website as an off-shoot of his column, "The Travel Snob," which is
published every other month in Simply the Best magazine. Murphy, who
is based in New York City, has been writing their travel features for
seven years now, including its annual rankings of the "Best Hotels in
the World."
Though travel writing is his passion, Murphy's real job is with CBS
Television, where he serves as a Vice President in its Communications
Department. Among his responsibilities are editing their new consumer
fanzine Watch, a bi-monthly publication that goes out to 400,000
readers across the U.S., and publishing the corporation's annual Social
Responsibility Report, a yearly publication that highlights the
company's good deeds through its various divisions. Even a cynic like
Murphy is impressed with the depth and breadth of the company's
commitment to these causes, and this is someone who used to be a
journalist, and so naturally believes everyone is lying and full of shit.
Previously, he worked as a reporter for Mediaweek, a trade magazine
covering the media buying and planning sides of the industry.
He covered the local television stations beat, and accumulated four
cover stories during his year and a half with the magazine. He credits
his experience at Mediaweek, working with Editors Bill Gloede and
Michael Burgi, with teaching him the industry. Though the late Friday
deadlines positively sucked, he nevertheless looks upon this time
fondly, depending, of course, on the right prescription dosage at the
time.
Before moving to New York for Mediaweek, Murphy worked as a
feature writer and columnist for the Bradenton Herald, a Knight Ridder
newspaper on the southwest coast of Florida (KR has since been sold
to McClatchy, one of the better newspaper companies out there, not
that there's much of a difference anymore). At the paper, he covered
general lifestyle topics, in addition to serving as the local TV columnist
and following the society beat. His column, "Scene & Heard," cast a
tongue-in-cheek look at the region's philanthropic and social scene.
Though often mistaken for the valet, he nevertheless developed a
niche on the party scene with his twice-weekly column. He also
launched two campaigns for the betterment of life on the Gulf Coast --
the "Bring Starbucks to Bradenton" drive, which didn't get any
signatures except for a paw print from the cat living under his
apartment staircase, and the "Pay Jeremy's Citibank Balance" fund,
which sadly never qualified for matching donations from the United
Way. His time in Bradenton was not a total loss, though. It was there he
developed a taste for foie gras, thanks to his friend Sean Murphy's
Beach Bistro restaurant, where be became the establishment's resident
Norm Peterson. Bitches can't beat that now, can you?
Before that, he worked as a copy editor/ feature writer for the
Boca Raton News, a once quality paper that soon devolved into a rag
not worthy of fish wrapping. Dog training, maybe, but definitely below
birdcage liner, especially under publisher Michael Martin. However,
when Murphy was there it was definitely mediocre and on good days
not such a bad read. Like his time at the Bradenton Herald, the young
scribe made many life-long friends during this time, especially over
Bahama Burgers at Guppies, a dive bar located just a few blocks from
the paper's crappy, Motel 6-esque headquarters. Editor's Note: The
Boca News of today is said to be a much better paper with a talented
staff of writers. No word on whether it's still good for puppy training.
Murphy graduated from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla.,
where he majored in Communications. Though he'd like to say he
chose the university for its fine academic record and picture-esque
Boca Raton setting, the truth is he didn't want to leave home. However,
it was at FAU that Murphy gained his journalistic footing. With his
partner in crime Jennifer Goddard, he won control of the student
newspaper, the Free Press (which was quickly rebranded The
University Press; eww, just typing that former name makes me want to
take a shower), and quickly staged a complete turn-around of the
mis-managed (that's being generous) publication. As Editors, Murphy
and Goddard fired everyone, revamped the entire look and feel of the
paper, out-sourced its advertising function to the local paper and
instilled a whole new era of profitability, stability and journalism
excellence. That didn't stop the administration from dissolving its
publication committee and washing its hands of the paper, but that's
grist for a whole other website.
As a teenager, Murphy gained national recognition for publishing
his very own fanzine from his home. The magazine, called
Entertainment 2000, covered all aspects of the entertainment industry,
written completely from a 16-year-old's perspective, typos et all.
Though it started as a handwritten, sloppily designed and photo-copied
newsletter, the magazine later evolved into a monthly publication with a
10,000 circulation, printed on a very large web press by a company
that later threatened to sue for the non-payment of the bill.
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