By Kevin McCauley
Betsy Morgan, who was CEO of The Huffington Post for two years, is now president of Fox News Channel personality Glenn Beck’s website.
The Blaze, which was launched in August, features news and opinion pieces designed to appeal to Beck’s conservative following.
A current sampling includes “Joy Behar Wonders if Constitution-Loving is Getting our of Hand,” “Bachmann on '12 Run: ‘I’m Committed to Doing Whatever I can to Oust Obama,” “Union Boss Trumka Admits Main Goal is Using Unions to Fundamentally Change America into His Progressive Vision, Not Negotiate Member Salaries” and “Discover Channel Launching Exorcism Series.”
At HuffPo, Morgan grew the site from 4M to 22M unique visitors, incorporated more than 3,000 blogging contributors to the site and raised $25M in new funding.
Before joining Arianna Huffington’s team, Morgan spent 10 years at CBS News, where she was VP-digital news, senior VP of CBS Interactive and GM of CBSNews.com.
She looks forward to establishing The Blaze, which is named after the Old Testament’s Moses and the burning bush, as a “premiere digital network curating content, community and debate and further leveraging Beck’s loyal audience.”
The Blaze is owned by Beck’s Mercury Radio Arts, which co-produces “The Glenn Beck Program,” radio’s No. 3 rated show,” “Glenn Beck” on FNC, Beck’s live stage appearances and GlennBeck.com.
Morgan lauded MRA as a “powerful multimedia brand with a great business upside.” She is eager to help develop its “businesses around topical content in all areas the engage audiences and drive a healthy national debate.”
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