''Politics Daily'' was an American
political journalism
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Political journ ...
web site launched by
AOL News in April 2009.
It described itself as a "political news magazine for the general reader."
Melinda Henneberger, a former ''
Newsweek
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'' and ''
New York Times
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'' reporter,
[
was Editor in Chief.][
Carl M. Cannon was the Executive Editor and senior Washington correspondent.
Former '']Baltimore Sun
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'' reporter David Wood was chief military correspondent. Politics Daily columnist Jill Lawrence was a national political correspondent for ''USA Today
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''. ''Washington Post
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'' columnist Donna Britt and ''Chicago Sun-Times
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'' reporter Lynn Sweet wrote for the web site.
Bucking the general trend of layoffs in the media industry due to declining advertising revenue in the late-2000s recession
The Great Recession was a period of market decline in economies around the world that occurred from late 2007 to mid-2009. , ''Politics Daily'' had hired 22 professional writers and journalists by the end of April 2009,[
On March 10, 2011, Melinda Henneberger and other top Politics Daily staffers were among 200 editorial employees laid off at AOL.]The Huffington Post
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'''s Politics section.
References
External links
''Politics Daily''
American political websites
AOL
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