{"id":1759,"date":"2007-10-02T11:38:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T15:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/02\/huffpost-drafts-a-big-hitter-as-ceo\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T11:38:25","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T15:38:25","slug":"huffpost-drafts-a-big-hitter-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/02\/huffpost-drafts-a-big-hitter-as-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"HuffPost drafts a big hitter as CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times comes word that Huffington Post, which started as a rag-tag collection of blogs and has become a new-media superstar, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/02\/business\/media\/02cbs.html?ex=1349064000&amp;en=0be4183f643d8b9c&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">hiring away<\/a> the general manager of CBSNews.com, Betsy Morgan, and making her the new CEO of the Post. This is a big coup for Arianna Huffington and her team, and it&#8217;s probably no coincidence that it comes just before a U.S. election, one that the HuffPost and Jay Rosen&#8217;s NewAssignment.net have <a href=\"http:\/\/journalism.nyu.edu\/pubzone\/weblogs\/pressthink\/2007\/03\/27\/huffpost_nan.html\">teamed up to cover<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see where this new hire takes the site (Mike Arrington says that he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/10\/02\/the-huffpost-gets-a-new-ceo\/\">smells an IPO<\/a>). In any case, congrats to Arianna and the entire HuffPost team &#8212; which includes the lovely and talented (and Canadian) Rachel Sklar of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/eat-the-press\/\">Eat The Press<\/a> &#8212; for creating something extraordinary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times comes word that Huffington Post, which started as a rag-tag collection of blogs and has become a new-media superstar, is hiring away the general manager of CBSNews.com, Betsy Morgan, and making her the new CEO of the Post. This is a big coup for Arianna Huffington and her team, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/02\/huffpost-drafts-a-big-hitter-as-ceo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HuffPost drafts a big hitter as CEO&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}