The Young Turks Hires Rotten Tomatoes' Matt Atchity as Its First Head of Programming

He'll be overseeing, and growing, TYT's YouTube channels

The Young Turks has its first head of programming in Rotten Tomatoes editor in chief Matt Atchity, who joins TYT effective today. In this role, Atchity will be responsible for expanding the reach of TYT’s collection of YouTube channels–TYT Sports, Pop Trigger and ThinkTank among them–which cover a range of interests from sports to gaming to pop culture.

Atchity is already well-acquainted with one of those programs; he founded TYT’s movie review program, What the Flick?, along with Cenk Uygur and Ben Mankiewicz in 2010.

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