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Mike Porath
Editor in Chief
Mike is an award-winning writer and editor who previously worked for ABC News, NBC News and The New York Times. His reporting has taken him to more than 40 countries.
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Claire Robinson
Managing Editor
Claire Robinson is a longtime news editor at AOL. A former reporter and copy chief, she holds a Jesse H. Neal award for previous work in trade journalism.
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Mike Nizza
Deputy Editor
Mike is a producer, editor and writer who previously worked for The New York Times and The Atlantic.
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Theresa D'Angelo
Editor
Theresa joined AOL News in early 2008. She previously worked for Fox News Channel, MTV News and the Prague Post.
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James Graff
World Editor
A former senior editor for Time, James was bureau chief in Paris, Brussels, Chicago and Vienna. He has also reported from the Middle East, Mexico and the Arctic.
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JJ Helland
Editor
JJ has worked as an editor at AOL News since 2006. He holds a master's degree in journalism from NYU and previously interned at Salon.com.
David Knowles
Writer
A musician and a novelist, David has covered politics for AOL for the past three years. His writing has appeared in such publications as USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.
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John Merline
Opinion Editor
John is an 18-year journalism veteran, most recently as an editorial writer for USA Today. Prior to that, he was Washington Bureau Chief of Investor’s Business Daily.
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Steve Pendlebury
Editor
Steve covers general news and writes The Point, a daily column about hot topics on the Web. He has been at AOL since 2000 and previously worked for Reuters and the Associated Press.
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Christine Riedel
Editor
Christine began her journalism career as a newspaper reporter and editor. She jumped into online media in 1996 and has never looked back.
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Joseph Schuman
Senior Correspondent
A former writer and editor for the Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press, Joseph has been based in Paris, Washington, New York, Brussels and California.
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Andrew Schneider
Senior Public Health Correspondent
A two-time Pulitzer winner, Andrew is an investigative reporter who uncovered the nation's largest environmental disaster, among dozens of other stories. He writes at Cold Truth.
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Andrea Stone
Senior Washington Correspondent
Andrea is a former USA Today correspondent who has covered Washington, politics and news across the nation and the world. She has reported from 47 states, 28 countries, Capitol Hill and the Pentagon.
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Andra Varin
Editor
A writer and editor, Andra began her career fetching coffee in a smoke-filled newsroom filled with cranky editors. That led to gigs at the New York Daily News, ABCNews.com, CNN and UPI.
Buck Wolf
Senior Correspondent
Michael Arceneaux
Contributor
Michael Arceneaux is a Houston-bred, Howard-educated freelance writer currently based in Los Angeles. He has written on topics related to politics, pop culture, race, sexuality, and culture. Find more of his writing at thecynicalones.com.
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Theunis Bates
Contributor
Theunis is a London-based journalist. He writes for Time, Fast Company and Business Life.
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Matthew Berger
Contributor
Matthew is a contributor for AOL News.
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Russell Berman
Contributor
Russell Berman covered Washington for the New York Sun. He has also written for the Washington Post’s WhoRunsGov.com, the McLaughlin Group, New York Magazine, and the Daily Beast.
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William Boston
Contributor
A former staff correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Bill writes for Time, Monocle, Institutional Investor and other outlets from Berlin.
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James Burnett
Enterprise Editor
James is the former editor of Boston magazine, where he led his staff to numerous national awards. His freelance writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, Monocle, Rolling Stone, Details and New York, among others.
Anthee Carassava
Contributor
Anthee Carassava has worked for CNN, The New York Times and TIME Magazine, covering Greece and the Balkans for 15 years. She studied international law and stirred enormous controversy in Greece with her reports on terrorism.
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Dana Chivvis
Contributor
Dana is a writer and multimedia journalist who previously worked at The National Geographic Society. She has a master’s from Columbia Journalism School.
Cliff Churgin
Contributor
Cliff is a correspondent based in Jerusalem who has written for McClatchey Newspapers and The Chicago Tribune.
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Michael Cohen
Contributor
Michael Cohen writes on politics and national security. He is the author of Live From the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America. He blogs at democracyarsenal.org. Follow him on twitter here.
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Katie Drummond
Contributor
Katie Drummond is a writer and editor in New York. She contributes regularly to True/Slant and Danger Room, and has recently written for World Politics Review, Marie Claire and Next American City.
Tom Dunkel
Contributor
Tom's work has appeared in The Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Slate, The Wall Street Journal and more.
Lisa Flam
Contributor
Lisa Flam worked at The Associated Press for 15 years, primarily as an editor on the national news desk in New York. She is also a lifestyles writer, focusing on parenting and health.
Carl Franzen
Contributor
Carl is an up-and-coming web journalist who previously interned at Meredith Corporation, MSN, and The Atlantic. He studied journalism and religion at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
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Lauren Frayer
Contributor
Lauren is a freelance journalist and former Associated Press correspondent who has reported from Washington, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Iraq and Pakistan.
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Steve Friess
Contributor
Steve has written for The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, Wired and many other publications.
Mara Gay
Contributor
Mara Gay is a writer from New York. She previously worked for The Atlantic, and her stories have appeared in The Washington Post and The Root.
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Carmen Gentile
Contributor
Carmen is a Kabul-based freelance journalist who has written for Time, the Boston Globe and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Dave George
Contributor
Dave George is a social media marketer by day and a stand-up comedian by night. You can follow him on Twitter -- @DaveGeorge_DC
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Linda Gradstein
Contributor
Linda is a former longtime Israel correspondent for NPR and a frequent contributor to Public Radio International’s ‘The World’ program.
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Ryan Grim
Contributor
Ryan Grim is a New York-based writer and editor who enjoys writing about weird news, architecture and weird architecture. He's also a contributor at Planet Magazine.
Marc Hartzman
Contributor
Marc is normal in every way, except for his obsession with everything that is not. He’s the author of "Found on eBay," "American Sideshow" and "God Made Me Do It."
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James Hawver
Contributor
A former staff writer for the Democrat and Chronicle in his native Rochester, NY, James has lived in China, Thailand, Nepal, and now New York City. He has held internships with NBC Sports, USA Today and NPR's On the Media and attended the previous three Olympic Games.
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Zubin Jelveh
Contributor
Zubin is a former staff writer for Portfolio and Reuters, has contributed to The New York Times and The New Republic. He holds degrees in economics and journalism.
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Dana Kennedy
Contributor
Dana is a former reporter for the Associated Press and a former correspondent for ABC News, MSNBC and Fox News. Her writing appears in The New York Times, the Financial Times and the International Herald Tribune.
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Adnan R. Khan
Contributor
Adnan R. Khan is an independent journalist based in Islamabad. He contributes to Maclean's Magazine, The National Magazine, the Walrus, and other publications.
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Allan Lengel
Contributor
A former Washington Post reporter, Allan is editor of ticklethewire.com, a Web site that reports on the latest developments in federal law enforcement news.
Samuel Loewenberg
Contributor
Samuel has reported from such impoverished locales as Niger, Guatemala and Washington, D.C. His work on health and politics has appeared in The New York Times and on PBS. His Web site is samloewenberg.com.
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David Lohr
Contributor
A former senior investigative crime writer for CourtTV’s Crime Library, David also worked as a writer/producer for Investigation Discovery. He has been writing about crime and criminals for more than 15 years.
Tamara Lytle
Contributor
Tamara spent 11 years as a reporter with the Orlando Sentinel and 14 years with the New Haven Register. She has freelanced for publications including U.S. News and World Report, and AARP Bulletin.
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Meredith Mandell
Contributor
Meredith is a reporter for The Record, a daily newspaper covering northern New Jersey. She has freelanced for the New York Daily News, the L .A. Times and the San Francisco Chronicle and has worked as a reporter in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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Scott Martelle
Contributor
Scott is a former Los Angles Times staff writer, political campaign reporter and author of Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West. He also is a book critic for various outlets.
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Willem Marx
Contributor
Willem has worked as an online writer and producer for ABCNews.com and a TV reporter/producer for HDNet. He is based in London.
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Ed Mazza
Contributor
Ed has covered news on six continents ranging from events of earth-shaking importance to odd tales only whispered about in dingy bars. He has reported for ABC News, the New York Daily News and Tokyo's Yomiuri newspaper.
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John Membrino
Contributor
A veteran Washington journalist, John covered Congress and the White House for newspapers in Massachusetts and New Jersey and served eight years as news editor at Newhouse News Service.
Aunohita Mojumdar
Contributor
Aunohita has been covering Afghanistan for the last six years for the Christian Science Monitor, aljazeera.com, Eurasianet and other outlets.
Bryan Monroe
Contributor
Bryan Monroe is a visiting professor at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and was editorial director of Ebony and Jet magazines. He also helped lead the team that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. He can be reached at www.bryanmonroe.com.
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Bill Morris
Contributor
Bill Morris is the author of the novels "Motor City" and "All Souls' Day." He has worked as a reporter, columnist and freelance writer for 25 years.
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David Moye
Contributor
David is a journalist with 20 years experience writing pop culture and weird news. In his spare time, he holds psychic readings for B-grade celebrities.
David Nakamura
Contributor
David is a freelance journalist spending a year in Tokyo on a Council on Foreign Relations fellowship. He writes about politics, people and culture.
Terence Neilan
Contributor
Terence Neilan worked for 29 years at The New York Times as an editor, mainly on the Foreign Desk, and as an editor and reporter providing content for nytimes.com. In his native England he worked for 10 years on Fleet Street.
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Ozzie Nelson
Contributor
Ozzie Nelson, a former Navy pilot with substantial counterterrorism experience, is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
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Richard C. Paddock
San Francisco Correspondent
An award-winning reporter, Richard was based in Moscow, Jakarta and San Francisco for the Los Angeles Times. He has reported from Iraq, Bosnia, Burma and 45 other countries.
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Joe Peacock
Contributor
Joe Peacock was put on this earth by whatever creation story you believe for one purpose - to serve as an example to others.. He writes books and teaches people how to fist fight and draws pretty things for Fark.com. Learn more at JoeThePeacock.com.
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Broderick Perkins
Contributor
Broderick Perkins parlayed 30+ years of old-school journalism into the DeadlineNews Group, a Silicon Valley digital news service that really hits home with real estate, consumer and offbeat news.
Elaine Povich
Contributor
Elaine S. Povich is an award-winning Washington correspondent, reporter, writer and journalism professor who has worked for UPI, the Chicago Tribune and Newsday. Her recent pieces have appeared in an eclectic group of publications from The Fiscal Times to Congress Daily; from AARP Bulletin to PINK Magazine.
Tori Richards
Contributor
A Pulitzer Prize nominee, Tori has covered some of the world's biggest news over 22 years, working for the New York Post, Reuters, Bloomberg, CBS News, and the Los Angeles Daily News.
Michelle Ruiz
Contributor
Michelle Ruiz is a freelance journalist in New York. She is a contributor to New York magazine online and a former writer-producer at ABC News.
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Emily Schmall
Contributor
Emily, a freelance reporter based in Mexico City, has worked for Bloomberg, Forbes and the Miami Herald.
Robert Stock
Contributor
Robert W. Stock, a New York Times retiree, was the editor of several sections including Sunday Business and Travel. He is currently a nonfiction writer/editor in New York and an aspiring novelist.
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Dave Thier
Contributor
David Thier is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic Food Channel, The New Republic, Wired.com, IGN.com and South Magazine. He periodically moonlights as a tour guide in the haunted pubs of Savannah, Georgia.
Emily Troutman
Contributor
Emily is a contributor for AOL News.
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Laura Vanderkam
Contributor
Laura Vanderkam, a New York City-based writer, is the author of 168 Hours (Portfolio, May 2010). Her work has also appeared in USA Today and the Wall Street Journal.
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Paul Wachter
Contributor
Paul Wachter is the co-founder of againstdumb.com and writes for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic and The Nation. He lives in New York.
Sharon Weinberger
Contributor
Sharon, a national security reporter based in Washington, has been a contributor for Wired's Danger Room and has written for Nature, Discover, The Financial Times and Slate.
Stuart Warner
Contributing Editor
Stuart was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor during 39 years with Knight-Ridder papers and The Plain Dealer.
Traci Watson
Contributor
Traci spent 15 years at USA Today covering space, science, health and environmental issues.
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Barry Weintraub
Contributor
Barry consumes news and information for a living, then twists it into comedy and commentary for radio, television and the stage. He has appeared on Comedy Central, E!, Showtime, FOXNews, PBS and the BBC.
Graeme Wood
Contributor
Graeme is a writer in Ta'izz, Yemen. He has contributed to The Atlantic and many other publications, and he is on the Web at http://gcaw.net.
Paul Yeager
Contributor
Paul Yeager is a 20-plus-year meteorologist and a writer. His book credits are Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities and Literally, the Best Language Book Ever. He also writes cloudyandcool.com.
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