Continuing to expand its editorial staff, Yahoo has hired Movieline.com columnist Mark Lisanti to be deputy editor of its new Entertainment Blogs. Lisanti, founding editor of entertainment industry
blog Defamer, will report to Entertainment Blogs Editor Courtney Reimer, who joined Yahoo earlier this year from MTV Networks.
Lisanti's hiring reflects Yahoo's recent effort to bolster
original content offerings across key areas like news, sports business and entertainment. The Web portal has turned to both tradtional and newer media properties including ABC News, the Los Angeles
Times and TalkingPointsMemo, to acquire talent for its own content projects --Mark Walsh