Karina Longworth, (former editor of Cinematical) is joining spout.com. We met shortly after SXSW, where she had noticed us covering the festival. We talked a bit about what we’d like SpoutBlog to be, about how we binge on interviews and blog posts at festivals, then go back to the office where the day to day running of spout.com takes us away from the blog. She shared how her position at AOL was moving away from writing about film (most troubling since we’re all fans of Karina’s writing at Spout). Then, the lights went on. We want to see more great writing about film on SpoutBlog, Karina–one of our favorite film bloggers–wants to write more about film. Badda bing. We hired her.

Starting June 18, Karina will be posting here on SpoutBlog and popping up here and there at spout.com. We’re excited. Also, in the next couple days Spout will be doing something new with Susan Buice and Arin Crumley of Four Eyed Monsters. If you’re a fan of FEM, talk with Karina about it in the foureyedmonsters group on spout.com.

Stay tuned. We’ll announce what we’re up to in this Friday’s FilmCouch podcast.