Expanding its original content push, Yahoo Tuesday formally launched "The Upshot," its latest news blog that's been running in beta as "The Newsroom" since April. Upshot's eight staffers high profile
writers recruited from political and media sites including Editor Andrew Golis, previously of Talking Points Memo, and Deputy Editor Chris Lehmann, from CQ, the Washington Post and New York Magazine,
and Michael Calderone, formerly of Politico. Golis lays out the blog's mission statement
here.