Fanhouse

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FanHouse is a sports website owned by AOL. It launched in September 2006. FanHouse is part of AOL's MediaGlow publishing division. It is considered the internet's most linked sports blog by aggregator BallHype[1], and won Editor & Publisher's 2008 EPpy Award for "Best Sports Blog"[2] and was named as a finalist for the award in 2009.[3]

In January 2009, FanHouse began hiring experienced print journalists, including Jay Mariotti, Kevin Blackistone and Lisa Olsen. FanHouse has continued to bolster its roster, hiring writers away from the Orlando Sentinel, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Contra Costa Times, among others. FanHouse kept its stable of traditional bloggers as well, including widely published Michael David Smith. Upon its 2006 launch, it became the first sports blog to pay a large number of sports bloggers a per-post fee.

FanHouse is managed by executive producer Randy Kim. Previous executive producers have moved on to leadership positions at Yahoo! (Jamie Mottram), Yardbarker (Alana Nguyen) and NBC (John Clifford Ness). Many FanHouse bloggers have also moved on the other publications.

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