Team

Welcome to the next phase in the evolution of AOL News. Here you will find original reporting, analysis and commentary from our ever-growing cast of top-notch journalists.

We've brought on dozens of contributors from around the world and are expanding that group daily.

Are you interested in joining the team? Drop us a line, and tell us about your professional experience in news and what you think you can offer. E-mail us here.
Mike Porath

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

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

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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Amy Ayres

Amy Ayres

Editor

Amy joined AOL in 2000 and has spent most of her years with the company working in News. Before starting at AOL, Amy was a writer-producer for ABCNews.com.

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Theresa D'Angelo

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

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

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.

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David Knowles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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Buck Wolf

Buck Wolf

Senior Correspondent

Buck surfs the outer fringe of pop culture, reporting on weird news. He's a regular on several radio shows, a member of Us Weekly's Fashion Police, and the former entertainment producer at ABCNEWS.com. (Facebook | Twitter)

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Michael Arceneaux

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

Theunis Bates

Contributor

Theunis is a London-based journalist. He writes for Time, Fast Company and Business Life.

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Russell Berman

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

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.

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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

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.

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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

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

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.

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Tom Dunkel

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.

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Lisa Flam

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.

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Carl Franzen

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

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

Steve Friess

Contributor

Steve has written for The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, Wired and many other publications.

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Mara Gay

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

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

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

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

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.

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Marc Hartzman

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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

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.

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Frank Luntz

Frank Luntz

Contributor

Frank Luntz is a contributor for AOL News.

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Tamara Lytle

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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Aunohita Mojumdar

Contributor

Aunohita has been covering Afghanistan for the last six years for the Christian Science Monitor, aljazeera.com, Eurasianet and other outlets.

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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

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

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.

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David Nakamura

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.

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Terence Neilan

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

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

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

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.

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Elaine Povich

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.

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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.

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Michelle Ruiz

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

Emily Schmall

Contributor

Emily, a freelance reporter based in Mexico City, has worked for Bloomberg, Forbes and the Miami Herald.

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Robert Stock

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

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.

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Laura Vanderkam

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

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.

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Sharon Weinberger

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.

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Stuart Warner

Stuart Warner

Contributing Editor

Stuart was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor during 39 years with Knight-Ridder papers and The Plain Dealer.

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Traci Watson

Contributor

Traci spent 15 years at USA Today covering space, science, health and environmental issues.

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Barry Weintraub

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.

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Graeme Wood

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.

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Paul Yeager

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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