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FoxNews.com executive editor Stephen Bromberg joined Aol as executive editor, AOL.com, where he will oversee the homepage.

Bromberg oversaw the development and publication of all FoxNews.com online content, having previously held the posts of senior news editor and news manager. Prior to FoxNews.com, he also worked with The Journal News in Harrison, N.Y., and the New York Post.

He will be based at AOL’s headquarters in New York and report to AOL.com general manager Chris Grosso, who said:

Steve is a seasoned journalist with expert news judgment who will bring a laser focus and deep consumer knowledge to AOL.com’s daily content. Steve and the entire AOL.com team are tasked with making the new AOL.com the Web’s most influential and inspiring start page.

Bromberg added:

I am looking forward to making AOL.com America’s homepage. We will deliver a constant stream of the most important and engaging content to AOL.com’s media-savvy audience 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

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Fox News’ liberal pundit Ellis Henican and conservative pundit Jim Pinkerton sat down today on FoxNews.com’s “Skype Gripe” to talk about the new developments in Keith Olbermann‘s suspension, referencing “The Daily Beast” post by Howard Kurtz. Pinkerton said on the “Gripe” that “Olbermann clearly runs NBC now.”

Henican told TVNewser that the FoxNews.com program is a “very raw and frank exchange” that “looks behind the curtain of punditry.”

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Fox News has dropped “The Strategy Room” name from its live, daily online program, and has renamed it “Fox News Live.”

The old URL for “The Strategy Room” redirects to “Fox News Live.” WebNewser confirms with Fox News that the site transitioned to FOXNews.com Live after the election.

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Fox News rolled out its first paid iPhone app, Fox News’ America’s Election HQ, which is currently available in the App Store for $0.99, paidContent reported.

Fox News’ America’s Election HQ will offer premium politics-related news and opinion through Election Day, Nov. 2, continuously updated, according to paidContent. Other features include a newsletter called Power Play and a map outlining the midterm elections and how they will affect Democrats and Republicans in the House, Senate, and governor races.

Senior vice president of news and editorial Michael Clemente told paidContent:

We decided to do this because people who are intensely interested in politics are interested in Fox News. Politics is a strength for us. And on the mobile app end, it’s a fairly open space. In terms of the major players, you have Mike Allen at Politico and ABC’s The Note.

It’s an enhanced version of the free Fox News app, as well as what’s on the channel. We’ll have a mix of items that are on our other screens, as well. Viewers don’t want 16 different ways to access Fox News, and we want to make it easy on them. I think the app will be unique and comprehensive for users interested in how the political races are shaping up across the country.

Mediaweek‘s Mike Shields writes about FoxNews.com, specifically how its traffic lags behind its cable news rivals, even as the linear channel crushes them in the ratings.

But even on its own, CNN.com consistently beats Foxnews.com by 7 million or 8 million unique users. Per comScore, the gap is even larger: 43.4 million uniques for CNN.com in June vs. 11.4 million for Foxnews.com. Plus, CNN.com regularly bests Foxnews.com in measures like page views, time spent and video streams-and it has opened an early lead in mobile (14 million uniques vs. 9 million in May for Fox, per Nielsen).

Shields notes that it isn’t all bad news for the site:

Still, Fox’s newfound dedication to the Web has paid off in user loyalty. According to a recent American Customer Satisfaction Index report, Foxnews.com registered the highest scores in the news category, 82 vs. just 73 for CNN.com. “A Foxnews.com visitor is a Fox News brand person,” said Eric Feinberg, industry director at ForeSee Results, which produces the research in conjunction with the ACSI. “The repeat visitor side of the equation for Fox News is huge”-indicating that the site is poised to grow its base sharply.

Shields addressed some of the questions, but it is still worth asking, why is the network’s websites failing (so far) to attract the massive readership that its competition has?

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Fox News Channel’s upcoming Latino-targeting website, FoxNewsLatino.com has named Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush as its senior editor.

Vourvoulias-Bush was most recently Corporate Executive Editor of impreMedia, overseeing brands such as El Diario/La Prensa and La Opinion. he has also worked at Time Magazine’s Latin American edition, and was a research associate on Latin America for the Council of Foreign Relations.

“Alberto’s extensive experience in the Latino media market will serve as a major asset to the launch of FOXNewsLatino.com this fall,” said Michael Clemente, Senior Vice President of News Editorial, FOX News, announcing the hire.

The press release is after the jump.

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Fox News has redesigned the FoxNews.com homepage, and has locked up Porsche as the official relaunch sponsor.

Visitors to the site today were greeted by an “unveiling” animation featuyring the classic Fox searchlights. After the user clicks through, or the animation concludes, a pop-up appears welcoming visitors “to the all new FoxNews.com homepage,” along with the Porsche logo.

Porsche is also the sole sponsor of the homepage today, touting its new Porsche Panamera.

In addition to an overall cleaner look, the new site features category sections that are more prominently featured, as well as a news ticker that scrolls across the screen delivering headlines. The ticker is even embeddable:

The top of the page also features tabs that take visitors to FoxBusiness.com, Fox News Radio and The Fox Nation.

Not featured on the new website is the recently launched Fox News Insider blog, though that site is still being described as an “experiment” by insiders.

Fox News has soft-launched a website, Fox News Insider, with a social media focus. The site, which as at www.Foxnewsinsider.com, is being constantly updated with reports from Fox News Channel, as well as info on FNC programming like “The O’Reilly Factor”.

Users can sign into the site with their Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo! or MySpace accounts, allowing them to comment on or share stories. There is also a dedicated Twitter account @foxnewsinsider, which is feeding updates from the site directly to users Twitter feeds.

The site also features a “live wall” where users can post comments about what is happening on Fox News, as well as a Twitter tracker, which aggregates the tweets from FNC correspondents and shows.

Other features include a daily poll and an “open question” which asks users what they think about an issue of the day.

The site is a very fan-friendly move for FNC, with embeddable video, deep social media integration and a user-friendly layout and structure.

For Fox News fans that are stuck at work during the day, the site can serve as a way to get the latest news from the network straight to their desks.

The site seems to have come together pretty quickly, as the domain was purchased by News Corp. on May 24. Not bad for two weeks’ work.

In a move that will surely irritate some of its more prominent commentators (looking at you Sean Hannity), Fox News is launching a new bilingual news website for Latinos this Fall. Business Insider’s Joe Pompeo has the details about Foxnewslatino.com, which will launch this fall and feature content in both English and Spanish.

“The launch of FOX News Latino creates an unprecedented opportunity to expand our reach by engaging a new audience and providing a unique platform on which web users can access compelling content focused on the Latino community and the American dream,” said FNC senior VP of news Michael Clemente in a statement.

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