AOL Kills News, Launches 'Huffington'
Online publisher gets rid of news portal and all prior AOL News content
As AOL closes one door, another opens. Yesterday, AOL unceremoniously stuck a fork in the official AOL News property only a day before the launch of 'Huffington', AOL's iPad magazine app.
The move marks a concerted effort to rebrand The Huffington Post as the primary news and editorial branch of AOL, which is quite a change from the pre-merger days, where AOL News dominated the Huffington Post's web traffic by almost 9 million monthly uniques. It is hard to say the death of AOL News comes as much of a shock though—the AOL News Twitter account has been dormant since July 21st, 2011 (the Good News account has been quiet for over a year).
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