AOL / 20 layoffs

Layoffs hit AOL yesterday, Capital has learned.

The majority of impacted employees worked on the editorial side of the AOL.com homepage, according to sources with knowledge of the cuts, who put the total number of pink slips around 20.

The culling, one of numerous that have hit different areas of the web portal in recent months, comes amid AOL’s hiring yesterday of HGTV executive Brian Balthazar to oversee the content strategy for the homepage, and the recent appointment of longtime marketing executive Maureen Sullivan to manage AOL.com.

Balthazar is a video guy, and video is where the homepage wants to pack more punch. Sullivan, meanwhile, has been putting her team in place and coming up with a focus for what the site will evolve into in 2014.

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via Layoffs at AOL: 20 slips, mostly on homepage side | Capital New York.