Software company BitTorrent, Inc. has hired former CNN News producer Harrison Bohrman to serve as news director. It’s a new position at the peer-to-peer file-sharing network, created for the forthcoming launch of a new initiative titled BitTorrent News.
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BitTorrent News is billed as an in-house, streaming news network that would focus on breaking news events. The San Francisco-based company, which currently offers a live streaming platform called BitTorrent Live, hasn’t officially detailed a timeframe for the new channel's launch, though Variety in June reported that the service could debut before the U.S. presidential election.
Bohrman joins BitTorrent from Vice, where he was a senior development producer of the brand’s television network, Viceland. Prior to that, he was a producer at CNN, where he spent more than five years writing and producing for Emmy and Peabody award-winning teams.
As BitTorrent’s news director, Bohrman will build the company’s news team from the ground up, leading the development, planning and production for the forthcoming news network.
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