Digital lifeline for Gourmet editors

Collen Curtis, AOL’s editorial director of women’s and lifestyle programming, is hiring about a dozen Gourmet editors who lost their jobs when the magazine shut down in November. They’ll develop recipes and content for a new AOL food site launching next month. Cheryl Brown, a Gourmet editor for a decade, will serve as editor of the site, which has yet to be named. AOL has also tapped “Top Chef” judge Gail Simmons, and chefs Marcus Samuelsson and Curtis Stone to develop their own video series for the site.