This seems a no brainer. Who is the best person to lead your staff of editors, programmers and the like for a news property? A top notch news edtior, of course. Case in point: News.com picked up Friday on the fact Yahoo! hired former Wall Street Journal Online editor Neil Budde to run their News site.
And yes, before you ask, this seems to be another move by the Internet portal to get more original content in their stable. Budde, given his background in the newspaper business, undoubtly has a number of connections which whould serve him well in drumming up partnerships. Failing that, we may end up seeing at some point a daily Yahoo! News broadcast.
