Media Moves

Yahoo names O’Lear senior director of curation and platforms

Coleen O’Lear

Coleen O’Lear will join Yahoo News as senior director of curation and platforms. In her new role, she will helm the curation and distribution strategy across all products and platforms.

O’Lear will partner with the newsroom and technology teams to find creative and new avenues to surface the right content and engage with audiences. She will also oversee various editorial teams, including homepage & apps, newsletters, optimization and the copy desk.

She begins Aug. 14.

Recently, she was head of curation and platforms at The Washington Post, where she worked for more than a decade as a mobile producer, assignment editor, managing producer and editorial director.

She also worked at McClatchy-owned newspapers, The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette.

She was a copy editor for news and sports at The Times-Picayune and an editorial assistant at NOLA.com.

O’Lear has a B.A. from Loyola University New Orleans.

Be sure to congratulate O’Lear via Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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