RD Recap: Changes at HuffPo; New Hires at Washington Examiner

The big news in the media world is that Verizon has bought AOL for $4.4 billion, a 17 percent premium on Monday’s closing stock price. The big question for our purposes here is how the acquisition will affect AOL’s content properties, including The Huffington Post and TechCrunch. At least one reporter hears they might be spun out at a later date, possibly to German publisher Axel Springer, a company that owns many properties, like the German edition of Rolling Stone.