Peter Kafka in Media on January 30 at 4:18 pm PT
Another well-known writer for a site that used to specialize in other people’s writing. This one says he’ll write about “tech for humans.”
Peter Kafka in Media on January 10 at 3:42 pm PT
Like almost every other top Huffpo executive from the pre-AOL days, Paul Berry is on to something else — which happens to involve working with a lot of former Huffpo executives.
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Peter Kafka in Media on January 9 at 8:37 am PT
News aggregator/newsmaker Buzzfeed has raised a $15.5 million C round led by New Enterprise Associates. The New York-based site, run by Huffington Post co-founder Jonah Peretti, also features HuffPo co-founder Ken Lerer as investor and chairman, and former HuffPo sales boss Greg Coleman has joined as a board advisor. The site recently signaled its intent to generate more of its own content, designed to be flung around users’ social networks, by hiring Politico blogger Ben Smith to beef up its editorial ranks.
Kara Swisher in Media on November 16, 2011 at 10:13 am PT
One thing Yahoo is good at: Giving other companies exec talent!
Kara Swisher in News on November 11, 2011 at 2:53 pm PT
Former employees are good for something, apparently!
Kara Swisher in News on April 7, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Greg Coleman, the online advertising sales exec who keeps making bank after bouncing from top Web jobs, has a new one.
The former Yahoo, AOL and Huffington Post sales leader has just taken a job as president of Criteo, a “personalized retargeting” company.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 7, 2011 at 5:55 am PT
“I want this to be the last act of my life,” says AOL’s new content boss. CEO Tim Armstrong’s translation: It’s a “multiyear contract”
Kara Swisher in News on February 7, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is the gift that keeps on giving–at least to Greg Coleman.
He’s the Chief Revenue Officer at the Huffington Post–for which the Internet giant just forked over $315 million to acquire–who will get a multimillion dollar payout from the deal.
Except Coleman is the same guy whose three-year contract as AOL’s onetime sales head was paid out by Armstrong after he was replaced after only three months.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 7, 2011 at 3:30 am PT
Former AOL CEO Steve Case is right to call out current AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s fuzzy math. But that doesn’t mean this is a bad deal.
Kara Swisher in News on February 6, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT
In a bold and definitive move, AOL is paying $315 million, mostly in cash, to buy the Huffington Post, one of the Web’s most prominent news and opinion sites.
As part of the deal, Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington–who was derided by some when she co-founded the left-leaning site in 2005 with investor and well-known communications exec Kenneth Lerer–will become editor in chief of a new unit that has purview over all of AOL content properties.
The deal was signed just this afternoon.
