AOL Huffington Post Media Group Relaunches OffTheBus for 2012 Election Season

OffTheBus will combine the efforts of The Huffington Post’s political team in Washington, D.C., with the Patch network of more than 800 hyperlocal news sites, and contributions from citizen journalists.

The editorial team for OffTheBus will include: AOL Huffington Post Media Group social editor Mandy Jenkins, PatchU relationship manager Andi Morrison, Patch director of multimedia and news integration John Ness, and AOL Huffington Post Media Group editorial director Howard Fineman.

Its advisory board will include: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian; Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; Jon Meacham, executive editor and executive vice president at Random House and Pulitzer-winning former Newsweek editor; Teresa Rodriguez, award-winning Univision correspondent; Shelby Coffey, trustee of the Newseum and former editor of the Los Angeles Times; and Paul Steiger,...