As Big Head DC reported a long time ago, Laurel Touby has been shopping her Mediabistro empire around to the highest bidder. And, today, she’s found the proper suitor — to the tune of $23 million smackers! It’s a price much higher than most media insiders we’ve spoken to ever thought Touby could broker.

What this will mean for the operations of FishbowlDC, we don’t know yet. We do know that FishbowlDC’s editor Patrick Gavin has long been looking to leave his position to focus on a book about 9/11.