“In the end, 20 percent of AOL’s in-house workforce was canned and nearly every editorial staffer, including my own editor with whom I’d worked every day for two years, was shown the door. The people I knew inside AOL told me that workers were fired in mass conference room terminations, with no reason given.”
An AOL insider spills the beans about the editorial bloodbath that occurred after the antiquated Internet company purchased Huffington Post.
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