I was told by an AOL employee that Arianna Huffington will be the director of their entire news operation. HuffPo is pretty much their model with a paid editorial staff and a lot of unpaid bloggers.
Even Indian writers making a dollar a day are too expensive for Arianna...
AOL India Cuts Staff by 400
Along with several hundred layoffs taking place in the U.S. tomorrow, which BoomTown reported earlier, AOL is also drastically cutting staff at its Indian unit right now, sources said.
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/03/10/aol-india-cuts-staff-by-400/?mod=google_news_blog