Yahoo’s Southland Office Hires AOL Exec

Internet media company Yahoo Inc. said it hired Shawn Hardin, a former AOL vice president, in the midst of an expansion of its media group in Southern California.

Hardin, 43, will join the company Monday as a vice president of content operations overseeing a number of media sites within Yahoo’s media group.

Hardin was most recently senior vice president broadband at AOL, a unit of Time Warner Inc. Earlier in his career, Hardin held various positions at General Electric Co.’s NBC.