AOL Deal Closes, Huffington Post Announces Six New Staff Reporters

TechCrunch:

Along with the closing of the acquisition, AOL has also poached a number of talented new writers to join its newly formed team. Yahoo's Michael Calderone has been named Senior Media Reporter, the New York Times' Trymaine Lee has been named Senior Reporter, the New York Daily News' Michael McAuliff has been named Senior Congressional Reporter, and The Daily's Jon Ward has been named Senior Political Reporter. Bonnie Kavoussi will be Business Reporter, and Lucas Kavner has been named Entertainment Reporter.

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Comments

[huffingtonbloat]

03:21 PM on 03/08/2011

While AOL is a terrible business, it didn't help itself out when it was suckered into buying the HuffPo. AOL didn't seem to understand HP isn't a real news site. This place is a liberal hub to drool over Palin while reading celebrity updates. For simpletons.

Whoops, AOL stock hits lowest price ever!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/03/aol-stock-huffington-post.html#comments

[957]

12:40 PM on 03/08/2011

AOL stock sure took a dive

[lemmyk73]

12:20 PM on 03/08/2011

How much $ from this merger has Huffington Post donated to poor people vs how much was pocketed?

[Angelus2007]

12:19 PM on 03/08/2011

What is the point of the "Denver" section, I get NY, LA and even Chicago, but Denver? Why no Washington DC section? Also a "Crime" section would be good, sometimes crimes are shoehorned into other sections, like the kid who killed his classmate is in education.

[GetAbike]

01:05 PM on 03/09/2011

ya, i like the idea of a crime or justice section- covering trials like James Arthur Rays sweat lodge trial in Arizona.

[1088]

12:11 PM on 03/08/2011

Let the paid bloggers right wing bloggers begin!

[Seafarer61]

11:50 AM on 03/08/2011

Awesome...six new people to monitor Kim Kardashian eating ice cream and Tom Brady's latest hairstyles.

[dh17]

12:42 AM on 03/08/2011

A former Yahoo/Politico guy and a former Murdoch/Tucker Carlson guy. Can't wait.

[sold2aol]

12:24 AM on 03/08/2011

Fire the Mods, get rid of the badges.

[anti politricks]

04:38 PM on 03/08/2011

i like my badge :S

[sold2aol]

11:05 PM on 03/08/2011

You can keep your bugsplatter badge. I'm talking about the deletion badges.

[Skyhawk]

10:42 PM on 03/08/2011

I like my badge. You can turn yours off you know.

[Hapakanaka]

11:25 PM on 03/07/2011

May we NOW have a science section? Pretty please?

[exPatPatti]

08:09 AM on 03/08/2011

I second that.

[ChaCubed]

08:46 AM on 03/08/2011

What - the Religion and Science section isn't good enough for you? (KIDDING!)

[Najwa Alsheikh]

11:08 PM on 03/07/2011

Yahoo and The New York Daily News? Great. There goes the quality!

[Adartist777]

09:57 PM on 03/07/2011

Now that we know that HP is hiring six new journalists, who's leaving? I can't put my finger on who's been missing, but some familiar names have faded out.

[InfinteShibumi]

10:58 AM on 03/08/2011

Gee. Wonder why...

[NOSOCIALNETS]

09:30 PM on 03/07/2011

How about a new headlined editor?

[Jdaddy1951]

09:11 PM on 03/07/2011

I assume that at least one of these new reporters was hired to replace the reporter who was promoted to replace the editor who kept writing headlines that used the word "HUGE" in them ...

[roccekt]

07:41 PM on 03/07/2011

Good for Arianna, not so much for Huffpo members.

[Erewhon7]

10:09 PM on 03/07/2011

You do know this is a venture capital business.
Perhaps some of you thought this was some kind of vegan commune sponsored free-for-all.
Learn to distinguish between bourgeois liberal talk and the walk.

[Alien Nation]

12:21 AM on 03/08/2011

Or learn what the difference is between people communicating facts on the internet and people looking to profit from tragedy through advertising.

[GetAbike]

01:16 PM on 03/09/2011

dang!
and all this time i've been being so diligent in my compositions because i thought this was some kind of vegan commune sponsored free-for-a­ll.
sheesh.

[SamEllison]

06:57 PM on 03/07/2011

Cash the checks quickly.