Paula Froelich

Paula Froelich is the New York Times best-selling author of the novel, “Mercury In Retrograde.” She is best known in New York for being the deputy editor of the New York Post’s gossip column, Page Six, where she worked for ten years until June, 2009. She was also a correspondent for “Entertainment Tonight” and “The Insider” from 2002 to 2006 and has appeared as a guest on “The View,” “Real Time With Bill Maher,” “Today,” “Good Morning America,” “The Early Show,” “Entertainment Tonight,” Extra,” “The Joy Behar Show,” “Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell” and “The Howard Stern Show.” Before The New York Post, Paula was a financial reporter, covering interest rate swaps and over the counter derivatives for Dow Jones Newswires and Institutional Investor. She is currently a contributing editor for Playboy and freelances for the New York Observer, Gourmet, and The Daily Beast. In January 2012 she won a Gold Medal award from the North American Travel Journalists Association for her piece in Playboy on Iraq, “Down And Out In Baghdad.” Her digital, viral marketing work for The Sundance Channel won a CableFax award in the Integrated Marketing Campaign category and she also created the content for the (short-lived) tablet magazine, Punch. Paula is originally from Ohio and Kentucky and loves to travel to places where the USD still means something. www.abroadabroad.com