Peter Lauria Joining Dan Abrams’ Mogulite

Former Daily Beast and New York Post writer Peter Lauria will be joining Dan Abrams’ soon-to-be-launched Mogulite as a consulting editor. The site, which is the seventh in the Abrams-owned blog network, which includes Mediaite, will have “the same kind of philosophy of Mediaite” in treating “media figures as celebrities to some degree,” Abrams told the Huffington Post.
 
Lauria is a bit of a controversial figure—Harvey Weinstein joked that the writer was the inspiration for Inglourious Basterds and the “No.