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Dan Froomkin Becomes Latest Refugee at Huffington Post
The trail between the Washington Post and Huffington Post is becoming something of a pipeline: ousted liberal WaPo columnist Dan Froomkin has landed at Arianna Huffington's well-funded website. His new home may be worse than the old one. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Lulupasternak: Considering he didn't do any actual reporting at WaPo (aggressive aggregating is more like it), I wonder how he's going... 1 Responses | Other threads
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print is dead
Huffington Post: Acquisition Bait, Now More Than Ever
It's official: Betsy Morgan says she was indeed pushed out as the ineffectual CEO of the Huffington Post. But to what end? The new regime is downplaying profitability in favor of revenue growth — the ideal ramp for a sale. More » -
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Will Investors Leash Arianna Huffington's Spending?
It's a bold new future at the Huffington Post: investors have installed their own CEO; a CBS producer will launch a Gotham edition next month. Nevertheless, insiders are murmuring about belt-tightening, starting at the top. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by MerrickEuterpe: Huffington has a nasty habit of getting the organizers of her speaking engagements to pay her directly for her travel... more » | Other threads
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exits
Investor Takes Over Management of Huffington Post
As the Huffington Post bulks up, the company is apparently changing management: CEO Betsy Morgan is on her way out, replaced by Eric Hippeau of investor SoftBank Capital, PaidContent reports. More » -
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Does The Huffington Post Use Sexism To Drive Liberal Page Views?
The Sexist blogger Amanda Hess says, "Yes." And we're a little hard-pressed to disagree. [Jezebel]
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By MeganComment by PilgrimSoul: Is this surprising? Liberal dudes often think because they don't call us bitches to their faces they are exempt... 23 Responses | Other threads
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charts
Will Arianna Huffington Be Paying You This Month?
The Huffington Post has been taking flack for not paying writers, but it's not so simple. Most bloggers aren't paid, but some are. On staff, there are paid interns, unpaid interns, and paying interns. It's all very complicated, but luckily we made you a chart. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by mimigoliath: I dunno, writing for HuffPo gets me lots of exposure, so I don't mind not being paid. Of course, I... 5 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Who's Afraid of Arianna Huffington?
Syracuse University's journalism school will next week honor Arianna Huffington, and already alarm bells are going off inside traditional media: Why honor a woman who doesn't pay most of her writers, undermining the school's own graduates? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by sample032: Anyone with only a light knowledge of economics knows the reason for low pay (if any) of journalists is because... 4 Responses | Other threads
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moguls
Arianna Huffington Discovers 'Weird Porn' on the Internet
Though she's been depicted strangling newspapers and stealing their content, Arianna Huffington was just warmly praised by the Washington Post's publisher. There are several reasons for this, starting with her comment about "very weird porn." More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Gregoire: You know, after you get past the accent, she's really quite boring. 1 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Can the Huffington Post's Fresh News Vets Survive Arianna?
For all her success, Arianna Huffington is a notoriously difficult boss. Turnover at her Huffington Post has been high; it's mainly the young and hardy who last. So HuffPo's two new seasoned pros should produce either a surprising turnaround — or an all-too-predictable trainwreck. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by The Lone Scout: Technically speaking, if something has run off the rails, it's already a train wreck. 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Feel Awkward, Innocuous, and Sad
Did you know Arianna Huffington's godson is so afraid of Gawker, he can't say its name aloud on Twitter? Or that Ruth Reichl can be bought? The things one learns from the media's Twitter addicts: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by timeoutofmind: how much will i pay for used twits at the cabbage patch convention in Ypsilanti next February ? more » | Other threads
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rumormonger
Huffington Post Bidding On Local News Site?
We hear the Huffington Post is trying to buy Outside.in, the local news aggregator from supremely smug literary Park Sloper Steven Johnson. HuffPo embracing the local news business as promised? Bizarre. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by BooWahBabe: I have NEVER heard of them and am once again confused as hell as to how something like this or... 5 Responses | Other threads
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arianna huffington
Why the Huffington Post will never be Vogue
Most bloggers seem to be mentally competing with the newspaper media model of The New York Times. Were they to visit the average newspaper office, they'd quickly realize what they really want: A glamorous magazine job. That seems to be Arianna Huffington's thinking, too. Gawker writer Ryan Tate has a long, delicious post about Huffington's workplace quirks. But his kicker applies to any blogging biz: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by lottalance: stupid is as stupid blogs = the Huffington Post A nice little place to put so many self-important blow hards. ... more » | Other threads
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lists
BusinessWeek scrapes Techmeme for its latest list
Loic Le Meur! Gabe Rivera! Joi Ito! Don't feel bad if you've never heard of them. BusinessWeek.com's latest 25 Most Influential People on the Web is a mashup of billionaire powerbrokers with a randomized handful of those folks you run into at that same little tech conference that happens under a different name every month. I'm guessing they left out TechCrunch's Michael Arrington to create buzz. If you don't want to click through 27 pageviews on BusinessWeek's site, here's the entire list in alphabetical order: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by newtonke: I think it is much more the people 'behind' those people you should watch. If your a gagbillionairre, or your... more » | Other threads
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blogging for dollars
Even conservatives are tired of Fox hogging the debates
Normally if I saw Arianna Huffington, Craig Newmark and Markos Moulitsas coauthoring a statement, I'd click my Back button and Move On, as they say. But Instapundit editor Glenn Reynolds has joined the mostly leftospheric collection of bloggers who've dubbed themselves the Open Debate Coalition. They want two things, which I've helpfully edited down to 10 words each: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by Churchill: Sarah Palin won't be able to debate b/c she's not feeling well! Palin will set back women for FIFTY... 1 Responses | Other threads
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superficial
The 7 Internet women Playboy should have asked to get naked
Forget the glass ceiling for a second. This week anyway, the worst enemy of "women in tech" (like we're all one big happy girl army) is the Hot List. Playboy's "Hottest Blogger" contest is still rolling, still prompting faux-thinky "conversations" about objectification and what sets women back. (An aging softcore publication is the least of our worries.) By now a couple of Playboy's nominees have confided that they're eager to lose the vote and get it over with. What, there weren't any serious "Women of the Internet" who would pose anyway? Dear Playboy: Skip the voting on the collection of contenders we've assembled. Photo-shoot them all. More »
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Comment by Adarael: @Molly Crabapple: Grossly more style. And who else employs fashionable writers who are willing to totally geek out over Soviet... more » | Other threads
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blogging for dollars
HuffingtonPost going local with Chicago section
The shrill cacophony of wealthy Democrats from Hollywood you've come to know and love on the Huffington Post will be coming to a major market near you soon enough, as the site will manicure content gardens for urban markets. Chicagoland bloggers now have any exciting opportunity to not get paid to contribute their opinions about local politics. [Guardian UK] (Photo by AP/Evan Agostini)
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By Jackson WestComment by Carlos: Sweet choice. Probably the #1 or 2 city on the "Cities turned to complete shit by a Democrat administration"... more » | Other threads
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quotable
Arianna Huffington wants you to have a menage a trois
"The online vs. print debate is totally obsolete. It's as musty as the old barroom argument about Ginger vs. Mary Ann. It's 2008, why not have a three-way?" — Blog mogul Arianna Huffington, putting the sin in "synergy" for BusinessWeek, 22 May 2008
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By Owen ThomasComment by FlakJack: Given Arianna's prior marriage to one of teh gays, I assume she speaks with authority here. more » | Other threads
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blogging for dollars
Who will discover Arianna Huffington's algorithim for vileness?
"If all those geniuses working in Silicon Valley could come up with a way to screen for those vile comments," as Arianna Huffingon mused on KQED's Forum, would her Huffington Post blog empire be empowered to delete meanness from the blogosphere? Sounds like a challenge. Maybe Google can inspire its engineers by changing its slogan to "Don't be vile."
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Comment by raincoaster: They* Arianna's claws reach even unto my first drafts. more » | Other threads
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party report
The future of Jonathan Zittrain (and how to stop it)
Really, I wasn't trying to be posh for the book party Arianna Huffington threw Saturday for Oxford scholar Jonathan Zittrain and his new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It." I pulled up to Larry Ellison's Pacific Heights manse in a black Town Car because that's the only vehicle I was able to flag down in North Beach. Huffington, the pundit turned blog mogul, greeted me at the door and extracted a promise of my best behavior before allowing me in. (One wonders what these people think my worst behavior might be, and if they realize how tempting living down to their expectations is.) More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Rachel Marsden: Jetzt stereotypieren Sie Deutsch. Und mich. :) more » | Other threads
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lazy valleywag
What's Sergey Brin doing with Arianna Huffington in Tahiti?
Google cofounder Sergey Brin is, two days away from his company's first-quarter earnings call, sunning himself in Tahiti. As is Greco-American blog tycoon Arianna Huffington and Wendi Deng, wife of News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch. Huffington is reportedly there on vacation, but it's a stretch to think Brin and Deng are also there by sheer coincidence. Anyone have a bead on what prompted the South Pacific power summit? Do let us know your theories.
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By Owen ThomasComment by loslosbaby: Who are all these people you're talking about? Oh, yeah, I know who they are, they're old. more » | Other threads
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blogging for dollars
Don't have a cow if you can get the milk for free
Fishbowl watch: Simon Dumenco at AdAge slams Arianna Huffington's Huffington Post a second time for not paying their bloggers. But for most of Huffington Post's celebrity contributors, a blogger's paycheck wouldn't be worth the time it would take to cash it. HuffPo seems to be doing all right, which means the real compensation for a post there is the kind of in-crowd recognition that can't be bought. -
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Tech blogger on HuffPo: "Can you say IPO?" Answer: "No."
The new editor at TechCrunch, Erick Schonfeld, has gotten a little IPO-crazy in these heady days of Bubble 2.0. The best guess we've seen on a Huffington Post valuation is $60 million which, for a media company, is a drop in the bucket. We can't remember a tech or media company going public with a valuation anything like that. Huffington Post is the most unlikely IPO candidate since Wired in 1996 — and Wired had substantially more revenues and a real magazine business. Maybe we were onto something with the whole cheese thing. More likely? An acquisition. More »
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Comment by OaklandTechie: Believe it or not, there is a precedent for small publishers going public. My old employer NewMedia Magazine (part of... more » | Other threads
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blogging for dollars
Huffington Post raises more cash
At PaidContent, Rafat Ali picked up this interesting fact from a perfunctory USA Today profile of Arianna Huffington: Her company, The Huffington Post, has raised another $5 million in financing. With blogging companies in vogue with big media, though, that strikes me as small change. Huffington doesn't even pay most of her celebrity bloggers, so it's not clear what she would need the money for. But one wonders why she didn't take more money off the table. Could it be that, despite all the buzz, the Post's blog-for-free business model isn't all that hot?
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By Owen ThomasComment by Blackjack: So who's the cheaper slave driver, Denton or Arianna? more » | Other threads
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loren feldman
TechNigga and the Don Imus of Silicon Valley
"I want to apologize to all the black tech bloggers. It could have been any ethnic group. It could have been gay guys, could have been Jews, could have been micks, skinnies, chinks, any of them...It was just your guys' bad luck that it went down that way...I'm a fucking idiot comedian and I did this." When PodTech promised to sign on more "professional producers," did it mean a white guy putting on a blackface minstrel show? Because that's what PodTech talent Loren Feldman has been up to, as part of a freakish little "opera" this videoblogger has engineered over the past week. Here's the story as told in videos, from "TechNigga" to Loren screaming, "No balls on any of you, you're just fucking sheep." More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by IgorTheTroll: Loren Feldman the Puppet is a Pussy! He picks on weak people who cannot fight back! Loren tried Playing me by... more » | Other threads
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huffit
Arianna Huffington takes on Kevin Rose
Arianna Huffington, personality and political blogger, continues to embrace all things new and Web 2.0 by introducing Digg-like functionality to her self-named web property, The Huffington Post, or Huffpo for short. Dubbed, unsurprisingly, HuffIt, the beta service apes Kevin Rose's voting and news aggregating service Digg. Although not a direct threat, the introduction does shed light on the challenges facing Digg. More »
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By Tim FaulknerComment by Jordan Golson: The last time someone asked me to 'HuffIt', they handed me some paint thinner. What an awful name. more » | Other threads
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elizabeth spiers
New Media Blowup: Elizabeth Spiers, Solo Again
It was March 29, 2006, that Gawker founding editor Elizabeth Spiers launched Dealbreaker, the first of her grown-up internet ventures. Just a few weeks more than a year later, that new media party is over. From her email, just sent: "My partners and I have an insurmountable difference of opinion regarding long-term strategy for the company and we've come to point where I would like to do some projects that are materially riskier and more experimental than Dead Horse's existing properties, and they would prefer to pull back and focus solely on the sites we have." We always thought the safe, happy years for talent came when you stopped working for the millionaire and went out in partnership. Guess not. (Who were we kidding? Oh right, ourselves.) So how long until Ken Lerer turns on Arianna Huffington? How long until Michael Jackson and Barry Diller turn on Kurt Andersen? Heck, how long until Barry Diller tries to spit-roast the College Humor boys? Jon Fine has more.
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By ChoireComment by bartlebysmiles: @BMC -- per Elizabeth's post, how does someone get fired from "her own company?" And who's running Dead Horse if... more » | Other threads
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scams
An open letter to our pals at Paltalk
We recently received a solicitation from video chat site Paltalk to see if we'd like to join in an interview with Amanda Congdon. Talk about a short memory. A few months back, Paltalk got in touch with Gawker for a chat with Congdon and Arianna Huffington. We cooperated, on the condition that we'd get to run a highlight clip on Gawker. Unfortunately (for us), things did not go as planned. More »
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By Chris MohneyComment by raincoaster: It's like sleeping with Paris and getting a note from her lawyer the next day that unlike the rest of... more » | Other threads
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geeking out
Geek out: Al Gore lunges and Martha befriends a topless boy at D Conference
Wrap up the Powerbook cord and follow Esther Dyson to the next con — the D Conference winds down today. For actual news from people who are there, check out the Wall Street Journal's blog. (Favorite post: Turning the schmaltz up to 11.) For trumped-up news filtered through the snark machine, look no further. Photos by ZDNet reporter Dan Farber. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Andy Baio: The "big techie journalisty guy" is actually Brian Dear, the founder of EVDB. more » | Other threads
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