Piers Morgan takes on new job at American MailOnline

 
Editor-at-large: Piers Morgan (Picture: AFP/Getty)
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Alexandra Rucki30 September 2014

Piers Morgan will be joining the US arm of the MailOnline as editor-at-large.

The surprise announcement comes after his TV series Piers Morgan Live on CNN was axed from CNN in February this year because of poor ratings.

MailOnline said Morgan will contribute stories several times a week and bring “his own experience and perspective to bear on the big US stories of the moment”.

He will continue to write a weekly column for the Mail on Sunday and host Piers Morgan’s Life Stories on ITV in the UK.

Morgan told the MailOnline: “I am very excited to take on the role of editor at ;large (US) at MailOnline, which has become the most successful and dynamic platform in the world of news.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">BREAKING NEWS: I have a new job.— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/516934768248639488" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-171031-https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/516934768248639488" data-vars-event-id="c23">September 30, 2014</a>

“The site is an addictive pleasure, that offers an extraordinarily wide and diverse range of stories from all around the world. It’s become my first stop for news each morning and multiple times throughout the day – as it has for many others, which is why 180 million people now visit MailOnline every month, 60 million of them from here in America alone.

“Writing was my first love as a journalist and being able to write on such a powerful, far-reaching and ambitious global platform is an opportunity I couldn’t turn down.”

The 49-year-old journalist, whose career spans 25 years, has worked as editor of The News of the World and the Daily Mirror. He was also a judge on Britain’s Got Talent.

He hosted Pier Morgan Live on CNN from 2011 until 2014.

Morgan, who lives in LA and London, is reportedly set to start working at MailOnline immediately.

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