Yahoo hires sports editor from LA Times

Ever since Yahoo News moved its editorial operations to Santa Monica, the company's been on a hiring tear through newsrooms across Southern California. Yahoo's picked off staffers from latimes.com and this week snagged what might be its most prominent hire from The Times yet.

Dave Morgan, the number two editor in the paper's sports department, will be the new Executive Editor at Yahoo Sports, in a move announced yesterday by The Times. (You can read the memo on the unofficial internal communication blog of The Times' newsroom -- Kevin Roderick's LAObserved.)

Award a style point to Times Sports Editor Bill Dwyre for tweaking Morgan's new employer, in final line of his memo:

"And remember, if he changes his phone numbers, you can always Google him."

Links to this article: Technorati, Yahoo