As the relatively recently-formed Aol / HuffPo hybrid prepares to fold Aol News into the Huffington Post, the company has revealed that it will replace Jai Singh with longtime “HuffPostian” Nico Pitney as the sites’ managing editor.

The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein made history last year by becoming the first blogger to ask a question at a presidential news conference. Since then, he has burnished a fine journalistic reputation with hard work and honest reporting. In this installment of Inside the White House Press Corps, Sam talks about that first presser, the Nico Pitney-Dana Milbank dustup, covering the White House, and really delivers the goods on embarrassing TV habits.

Howard Kurtz rehashed the recent exchanges between Fox News and the White House on Reliable Sources this morning. Former Fox News contributor Jane Hall extended the debate to cable news at large, saying “The reason I left [Fox News] is because I think they have less debate than they used to but it is a fair point to say how much debate is there on MSNBC … we have a bifurcation of the media.”

This year’s Netroots Nation, the annual gathering of of progressive bloggers launched in 2006, was different: The president from the party they fought to elect — President Barack Obama, a Democrat — is in power, and they no longer represent the voice of the opposition.

But that doesn’t mean they don’t have any.

There was a report in US News, yesterday, that has different corners of the blogosphere going at the White House Press Corps like ‘roid-raged 5th graders at a pinata. The criticism centers, not around the corps’ threat of a “more adversarial tone” with the Obama White House, but around the reasons for it: Print reporters [...]

The recent kerfuffle between Nico Pitney (Huffington Post) and Dana Milbank (Washington Post) over a clumsy exchange in a White House press conference brings to mind two media mavens rarely mentioned in the same sentence: Marshall McLuhan and Thomas Jefferson. Seen in the context of their ideas about media and government, a tiff between a [...]

Nico Pitney won the clash with Dana Milbank today on “Reliable Sources,” but not on the merits – through classic tactics of going on the offensive, changing the subject, and comparing apples to oranges. I’m really surprised that Milbank wasn’t ready for it. But though they both scored a few points, I actually feel like [...]