Web’s Revolving Door

TheAtlantic.com is gearing up its 2012 campaign coverage, announcing new responsibilities for Josh Green and Conor Friedersdorf, as well as the addition of former Lake Forest (Calif.) Patch editor Spencer Kornhaber.

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Raise a toast to LinkedIn, as the professional networking site announced the creation of 100 new jobs in Dublin, Ireland, over the next 12 months, with 15 of them already listed.

Positions will be available at various experience levels in sectors including sales, business development, marketing, customer services, finance, human resources, and operations.

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Huffington Post Media Group continues to expand, announcing six new hires Tuesday that bring its total since the merger of AOL and The Huffington Post to 23 editorial-staff additions.

New criminal justice reporter Radley Balko had been a senior editor at Reason magazine.

Rebecca Carroll, who has held editor positions at Uptown and Paper magazines, is on board as culture editor of Black Voices.

New deputy entertainment, culture, and lifestyle editor Maura Egan comes from T Magazine, The New York Times‘ fashion and lifestyle magazine, where she had been travel editor since 2008.

GOOD education editor Amanda Millner-Fairbanks was named education reporter.

The new religion reporter is Jaweed Kaleem, who had held the same post at The Miami Herald since 2007.

And Christopher Spurlock will become infographic design editor in May after graduating from the University of Missouri, where he produces infographics for the Columbia Missourian.

The Center for Public Integrity announced two additions to its board of directors: Jennifer 8. Lee and Matt Thompson.

Journalist and author Lee spent nine years at The New York Times and is the author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food.

Thompson is an editorial product manager at NPR.

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Gannett announced the addition of former ShortTail Media co-founder, president, and CEO David A. Payne as senior vice president and chief digital officer.

Payne, who will also join the company’s management committee, was senior VP and general manager of CNN.com from 2004-08, and also held other positions with CNN parent Turner Broadcasting System, as well as stints as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C.; an associate of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington; and a producer and weekend assignment editor at KUTV in Salt Lake City.

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CNN.com has a new homepage editor: Tenny Tatusian, previously associate editor for LATimes.com.

Tatusian will oversee the overall messaging and tone of the cable network’s home page.

Here’s the upshot for Yahoo! News’ The Upshot: People are leaving.

Just a little over one week after the departure of The Cutline‘s Michael Calderone, who left to become senior media reporter at Huffington Post Media Group, The Cutline managing editor Andrew Golis (pictured) is leaving to take the post of digital media and senior editor at PBS’ Frontline.

Deputy managing editor Chris Lehmann, previously a writer and editor at CQ, New York magazine, The Washington Post, and The New York Observer, will replace Golis.

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LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/) announced the opening of a sales office in Paris to be led by newly appointed marketing director for Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Laurence Bret-Stern.

Bret-Stern joined the professional networking site from AOL, where she had been leading European marketing efforts.

The Paris office joins other LinkedIn outposts in London, Amsterdam, and Dublin.

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Digg announced that it filled its vacant vice president of engineering post with Ben Folk-Williams, who had held the same title with Vast for the past four years.

Prior to Vast, Folk-Williams led engineering at Coremetrics.

Digg CEO Matt Williams said:

This has been our most important role to fill at Digg. We were looking for someone who has led the development of a scalable platform, built strong teams, demonstrated operational excellence for website performance, and has a history of developer-driven product innovation. We came across Ben and realized he fits all of those qualities, and many more — including being a longtime Digg user.

Ben has been coding since fourth grade, loves big data problems and high-volume websites, and can often be seen in coffee shops in the Mission district (and now walking over to Potrero!).

Folk-Williams added:

Digg has fantastic fundamentals — a great brand, 20 million monthly uniques, with a very passionate core community, committed investors, and an exceptional team. Digg is uniquely positioned to redefine how people discover news, and it’s great to be a part of that.

Just two business days after it was out with the old at AOL and Huffington Post Media Group, it was in with the new, as the division created by the merger of AOL and The Huffington Post announced several new hires, including two high-profile additions — Twitter co-founder Biz Stone as strategic impact adviser, and veteran journalist John Montorio as culture and entertainment editor — as well as the promotion of HuffPost senior political editor Howard Fineman to editorial director for the group.

Huffington Post Media Group and AOL also announced the addition of two new neighborhoods in Newark to Patch, in partnership with that city’s Twitter-friendly Mayor Cory Booker, and the launch of its 30-Day Service Challenge employee volunteer initiative.

Stone will advise on social impact and cause-based initiatives, including the development of a platform to make it easier for people to perform services in their communities. He will also recruit other companies to invest in and deploy best corporate practices, and create and develop a video series spotlighting companies and executives that are stellar in philanthropy and corporate responsibility.

Montorio boasts more than 30 years of experience reporting, writing, editing, and managing news staffs, including stints with The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.

In his new role, Fineman will help shape Huffington Post Media Group’s overall coverage, as well as working to integrate AOL news and information brands. He will also guide coverage of the upcoming presidential campaign coverage, continuing to report for HuffPost, and retaining his role as an analyst for NBC and MSNBC.

Other new editorial hires across Huffington Post Media Group:

White House correspondent Jennifer Bendery, who had been covering The White House and House and Senate Leadership for Roll Call for the past three years;

Culture/style reporter Caroline Dworin, who had been a regular contributor to the City section of The New York Times and appeared in anthology More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of The New York Times;

Workplace reporter Dave Jamieson, who formerly covered transportation issues for TBD;

General assignment writer Saki Knafo, who previously wrote for The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, The Believer, GQ, and Publishers Weekly;

News editor Simone Landon, who had been producer of Morning Edition for Rhode Island Public Radio;

Real estate editor Catherine New, whose work has been published by The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Metro Newspaper, Flavorpill.com, Men’s Vogue, and Psychology Today;

And four new Jefferson young journalists: Katherine Bindley, who graduated from Georgetown University and was a regular contributor to The New York Times City section, as culture/style reporter; Laura Gottesdiener, who graduated from Yale University and was a staff writer for The Brooklyn Paper, as lifestyle reporter; Joy Resmovits, who graduated from Barnard College and has been at The Jewish Daily Forward since 2010, as education reporter; and Laura Stampler, who graduated from Stanford University and has written for The New Republic, The Nation, and The Miami Herald, as lifestyle reporter.

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