HuffPost Live
At HuffPost Live, banking on a new type of star (and a new star-system)
Huntsman and Menendez were among some 300 candidates to try out for HuffPost Live out of a pool of more than 600 applicants, said Josanne Lopez, executive producer of HuffPost Live and a veteran TV-news talent scout who, in her previous job at CNN, had been lobbying the network to pick up Menendez and other fresh young things. (She was in Will Cain's corner, too, lucky for him.) More
(1)Huffington Post to launch online streaming-video network Aug. 13
“’HuffPost Live’ is all about engagement and making the HuffPost community an integral part of the dynamic, ongoing conversation that will be the heart and soul of the network,” said Arianna Huffington in a statement “And we wanted to have a launch as innovative as the project itself, as opposed to a traditional top-down approach. ‘HuffPost Live 3,2,1…’ allows us to reach out to our community members and begin a dialogue with them about what kind of network they want to be part of, as well as what kind of stories they want to talk about.” More
Huffington Post live video strategy takes shape with new hires, a new name
Roy Sekoff, Huffington Post's founding editor and a top lieutenant of the site's matriarch, Arianna Huffington, ran the meetings in which he also announced some of talent recently recruited for the venture. He named former Al Jazeera English co-host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (whose hiring was previously reported by Ad Age) , but added to the ist Alicia Menendez, the daughter of New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, who is a co-host of “Power Play” on SiriusXM Cristina Radio and a contributor to NBCLatino.com; and Marc Lamont Hill, a Columbia University professor and former Fox News analyst. More
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