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​Fusion Taps Margarita Noriega to Oversee Social Media Efforts

MAY 16, 2014 – Fusion’s Chief Digital Officer Daniel Eilemberg today named Margarita Noriega Director of Social Media for Fusion. In her new role, Margarita will work with the digital team as well as the show production units to amplify the reach of the Fusion brand across all social media platforms.

This is the latest hire the network has made to its digital and social media teams in recent weeks – YouTube and Upworthy veteran Hong Qu joined Fusion as Chief Technology Officer; renowned blogger Felix Salmon named Senior Editor; Mariana Santos to oversee interactive storytelling unit; Danilo Lauria to lead micro-video efforts.

“Millennials were born into a new era of technology, and have come of age during the rise of Facebook and Twitter. I am excited about our growing team… and believe Fusion will capitalize on this extraordinary opportunity to build a media brand finely attuned to this generation’s digital tendencies,” Eilemberg said in an email to staff.

Most exciting bit: @margafret has promised to do actual reporting with her social media team, not just linking to other people’s work

— Felix Salmon (@felixsalmon)

May 16, 2014

Daniel’s email to the Fusion staff below –

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Fusion Taps Former YouTube, Upworthy Executive Hong Qu as Chief Technology Officer

Fusion today announced that Hong Qu (@hqu), a veteran of YouTube and Upworthy, will become the network’s Chief Technology Officer.  “We want Fusion to be an incubator for innovation where we take risks and experiment not only with new forms of content, but also new ways of ways of delivering that content – especially on our mobile platforms,” Fusion CEO Isaac Lee said in an email to staff today. “Hong will work with our product team to find innovative new ways for us to reach our digital native audience, one that is increasingly culturally and socially connected.”

Hong is the second executive hire Fusion has made this year.  In January the network hired veteran journalist and new media entrepreneur Daniel Eilemberg as its Chief Digital Officer.  Eilemberg founded Animal Politico, Mexico’s first news platform to launch exclusively on Twitter, in 2010 and built it into one of the leading political news and social media properties in Mexico.  Eilemberg now oversees all of Fusion’s digital, mobile, and social media platforms.

Isaac Lee’s full email after the jump.