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#conspiracies
Katie Couric Reveals Who Really Controls the Media
Katie Couric made a list of the "most powerful" people in media for Forbes and they're all... Jews. Kidding, only six of 11 are Jews. The real power belongs to computer nerds. Couric mentioned zero old media people. More » -
#attachecase
Arianna Huffington Tapping Brian Grazer's Braintrust
In a power move sure to rock the universe of self-absorbed Westside LA liberal showbiz activists, Arianna Huffington has grabbed Billy Silverman, producer Brian Grazer's former "cultural attaché" to head up her forthcoming Los Angeles local site. More » -
#photogallery
What Does Arianna Huffington Really Look Like?
The Huffington Post has brought back its old trick of posting embarrassingly high-resolution photos of celebrities, Portfolio.com notes, to much controversy. HuffPo defends its pics as "playful spin on our... fascination with celebrity images." OK, let's "play." With your founder. More » -
#conspiracies
How the Swine Flu Joined Glenn Beck and the Huffington Post
Combine two dashes of the Huffington Post's culty, medicine-fearing "Living" section and one dash of Fox News' craziest host, and you've got Love in the Time of Swine Flu. Not even Dr. Dean Ornish could stop these paranoid fellow-travelers. More » -
#therich
Jets Don't Count for Greed Hater Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington is accustomed to a life of wealth. She rides her friends' yachts and jets. She even wanted to buy a plane for the Huffington Post, says an insider. So why's she talking about CEO "excess" on The View? More » -
#jobs
Arianna's Knight in Khaki Armor
We always found it strange the Huffington Post was unprofitable, what with the Web juggernaut's traffic growth, editorial accomplishments and army of unpaid writers. It turns out HuffPo's investors thought that was weird too. Time for a new ad man. More » -
#conflictsofinterest
Huffington Post's New Medical Editor Already Promoting Clients
How will the Huffington Post turn around its much-criticized health coverage? With a doctor who consults for the likes of McDonalds, PepsiCo and Mars Inc., the candy maker. Dr. Dean Ornish is already at work plugging his clients. More » -
#citizenjournalism
HuffPo's Dangerous Quacks, Hacks and Cultists
Salon has a great post by a doctor about medical quackery at the Huffington Post, where a columnist recently suggested colon cleansing could treat swine flu. This is the downside of HuffPo's open, unpaid model — and culty recruiter. More » -
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#nepotism
Well Born and Well Kept at the Huffington Post
The Huffington Post just hired another VIP's child, this one the son of White House senior adviser David Axelrod. Funny how a website famous for not paying bloggers finds room on the payroll for an undistinguished corps of rich kids. More »
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#jobs
Arianna Huffington Seduces Journalist Over Email
The Huffington Post has hired its fourth ex-Washington Post reporter, young Jose Antonio Vargas. How did Arianna pull of this latest bit of poaching? Emails of "passion" and "exploration." Oh, my, Ms. Huffington! More » -
#jobs
Arianna Huffington's Hypocrisy on 'Un-American' Outsourcing
Back in 2004, Arianna Huffington didn't have a well-funded, fast-growing internet publishing empire. So she could afford to call the hiring of foreign workers a "crime against America." You'll never guess what Huffington is doing today. More » -
#richuncles
Why a Huffington Post Co-Founder Buys Extravagant Real Estate For Pretty Young Ladies
Cityfile encountered a stubborn mystery this week: Why did Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer help People magazine reporter Joey Bartolomeo buy a $1 million Upper East Side apartment? Bartolomeo and Lerer were mum, but we've found a (mundane!) answer. More » -
#jobs
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 » -
#advertising
Google Games Bite Newspapers
Desperate for online advertising, newspapers have learned to aggressively optimize their content for Google. The result: more traffic. Junky traffic. More » -
#printisdead
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 » -
#huffingtonpost
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 » -
#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 » -
#nipslippolitics
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] -
#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 »
