AOL's Patch to Hire as Many as 800 New Journalists
AOL’s Patch websites are looking to hire as many as 800 full-time employees at the local-news operations across the country, Bloomberg reports.
Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of AOL’s media operations, said she intends to increase content at the Patch websites covering about 800 local markets, and AOL may hire as many as one full-time journalist per Patch site. Huffington said she will also name a new editorial executive to work on its social-media soon.
Great news for locally-oriented journalists! We wonder if it will counteract all the chatter about whether the unpaid bloggers
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