When we started this little blog, we had big dreams of being in the magazine industry one day. Who knew that years later, we'd still be … working on this little blog. But that's not the future memoir of all media bloggers! Just look at Brian Stelter, the college grad behind TVNewser, who just signed on with the New York Times' media beat. Except now instead of posting emails from anonymous tipsters, he might have to, like, go out and verify stuff. Eww.

The Times memo announcing the new hire, first reported here:

Colleagues,

You read about him on the front page of The New York Times last
November, in "The Kid With All the News About the TV News." Now
you'll read him in The New York Times.

Brian Stelter, the TVNewser blogger, is joining the Times next
month as an 8i reporter to cover the media world for NYTimes.com and
for the paper. He will report to media editor Bruce Headlam, and will
work closely with Business Day reporters and with our friends in
Culture, including television editor Steve Reddicliffe and reporters
Bill Carter, Jacques Steinberg and Ed Wyatt.

Brian's blog, as Julie Bosman reported in that page one story, "is
read religiously by network presidents, media executives, producers
and publicists." He started the blog in 2004 during winter break, and
soon was hired by Mediabistro.com to keep writing it. He made it a
must read by getting scoops about the comings and goings in the
business. So dedicated was Brian to his blog that he updated it –
posting an item about NBC News – between interviews with Times editors
in our building recently.

His hiring underscores the expansion of our efforts to integrate
what we do online and in the print edition. Working with Bruce and our
Culture colleagues, Brii will help shape our media coverage on the
Web. And, like Michael de la Merced, who was brought on to write for
DealBook but has been a major contributor to the paper's coverage of
financial news, Brian will do both; indeed, we expect many of his
online postings to become news stories.

Brian, who grew up in Damascus, Md., about an hour west of
Baltimore, just graduated from Towson University with a degree in mass
communications and was the editor of the student newspaper, The
Towerlight. He has worked as a summer intern at the NPR radio
affiliate in Baltimore, and at The Gazette, a weekly newspaper in
Germantown, Md., and served as a page in the United States Senate.

Blogging on TVNewser, running the student paper and going to
school didn't leave him a lot of time for extracurricular activities,
but when he has free time, Brian is a frequent traveler, semi-serious
photographer and amateur film critic. He also reads a lot of
nonfiction and, of course, watches TV.

Please join me, Bruce and Sam Sifton in welcoming Brian to the
pages of the Times, as a reporter this time.

Larry