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AOL buys Huffington Post for $315 million
When AOL says it was investing in content, it wasn’t kidding. Spending $50 million rolling out Patch. Then another $30 million or so to buy TechCrunch. And then the bombshell announcement after the Super Bowl: AOL is buying the social media-friendly news site Huffington Post for $315 million. As part of the deal, Arianna Huffington [...]
AOL’s Armstrong answers question, ‘Is Patch evil?’
On stage at the Online News Association’s annual conference here in DC, AOL chief Tim Armstrong (left) was winding down the keynote session with NPR’s Vivian Schiller. That’s when USC’s Robert Hernandez (right) walked up the microphone and dropped the question that some in the audience wanted to ask, “Is Patch evil?” When Armstrong asked [...]
Guest Post: Patch dispatch from ONA
Ted McEnroe is the director of digital media at NECN in Boston and is a longtime colleague of mine. He blogs at Yankee 2.0. Ted is attending the Online News Association’s annual gathering in DC and is kind enough to file this report of his first impressions of the event. (If you’re at ONA and [...]
Digital media maven Jon Dube named GM of AOL News
We want to take a moment to congratulate LR Pal Jonathan Dube on being named the GM of AOL News. Jon has been a longtime visionary in the online news space. His most recent gig was as VP at ABCNews.com. Jon also ran Canada’s CBC.ca and is known in blogger circles for his site Cyberjournalist. [...]
AOL continues content push with TechCrunch
What what suspected yesterday became true today — AOL announced it’s acquiring the TechCrunch network of sites for an undisclosed sum. One of the biggest blogs on the web — and a big social media brand — TechCrunch will join AOL’s growing stable of content sites under the “MediaGlow” advertising umbrella: over 70 sites that [...]
