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Rita Wilson Talks About Baby Boomer Website Huff/Post 50 [Video]

Rita Wilson Talks About Baby Boomer Website Huff/Post 50 [Video]

On September 14 the Huffington Post will launched a new website called Huff/Post 50 geared towards Baby Boomers and today HuffPost Editor-at-large Rita Wilson took some time to speak about the new site and what it will offer. For Baby […]

Daily Beast-Newsweek Traffic Down 24% Since Last Year

Daily Beast-Newsweek Traffic Down 24% Since Last Year

  When The Daily Beast acquired Newsweek in 2010 there was talk of great things to come from the newly merged companies, even though Barry Diller said he expected the partnership to lose $50 million before it crosses over into […]

BlogHer Inks Year-Long Deal With P&G

BlogHer Inks Year-Long Deal With P&G

High-profile women’s blog network BlogHer has entered into a partnership with conglomerate P&G to “deliver support, connections and convenience” to the site’s 26 million monthly readers. A press release announcing the BlogHer/P&G deal was notably scant on details- lacking information […]

HuffPo’s Black Voices Launches

HuffPo’s Black Voices Launches

After an announcement earlier this week that Arianna Huffington had picked up ousted OWN CEO Christina Norman, the Huffington Post’s “Black Voices” channel has launched. Hosted at huffingtonpost.com/black-voices, Black Voices “covers news and cultural trends from a black perspective” and […]

Gawker Sued For $10M By Wrongly ID’d Schwarzenegger Mistress

Gawker Sued For $10M By Wrongly ID’d Schwarzenegger Mistress

Gawker is being sued by a California woman for defamation by libel after she says she was wrongly identified as a former lover of Arnold Schwarzenegger during the height of his love child scandal. Tammy Tousignant was a flight attendant […]

HuffPo Taps Precocious Teen Reporter For New High School Vertical

HuffPo Taps Precocious Teen Reporter For New High School Vertical

The Huffington Post hiring spree continues unabated, with news that a relatively well-known 17-year-old media wunderkind has been selected to lead the network’s yet-to-be-described high school vertical. The role of teens in such media has recently been a hot topic- […]

Booze, Customized Toilet-Paper And Other Perks At AOL Headquarters

Booze, Customized Toilet-Paper And Other Perks At AOL Headquarters

When Arianna Huffington became the “content chief” for Huffington Post after the online newspaper she formed was sold to AOL she arrived at AOL headquarters in Manhattan and immediately had “nap pods” installed on premise, but that wasn’t all she […]

Former OWN CEO Christina Norman Snapped Up by HuffPo For Black Voices

Former OWN CEO Christina Norman Snapped Up by HuffPo For Black Voices

By all accounts, former OWN CEO Christina Norman’s tenure with the Big O was doomed from the start. Even Norman said when she first spoke to Oprah about the big deal gig, something was off. The meeting didn’t go well- […]

Meredith Corporation Names Tom Harty As President Of National Media Group

Meredith Corporation Names Tom Harty As President Of National Media Group

The Meredith Corporation on Tuesday named Tom Harty as the company’s new President of the company’s National Media Group. Harty replaces Jack Griffin who resigned from the company to pursue other opportunities. Harty, 47, has been with Meredith since 2004 […]

New Yorker iPad App Attracts 20,000 Paid Subscriptions

New Yorker iPad App Attracts 20,000 Paid Subscriptions

Paywalls are largely viewed as a gamble, if not handled just right a newspaper or magazine risks losing millions of online pageviews while quite possibly alienating their user base who have come to expect their content for free, however when […]

Yahoo Sports Makes Leap To Airwaves, Partners With Gow Broadcasting

Yahoo Sports Makes Leap To Airwaves, Partners With Gow Broadcasting

Yahoo Sports is currently one of the top destinations for online sports news with more than 50 million monthly visitors and now the company has partnered with Gow Broadcasting LLC to take their popular internet content to the airwaves. The […]

Huffington Post Launches Women and Parents Channels

Huffington Post Launches Women and Parents Channels

The AOL Huffington Post Media Group on Monday announced the arrival of two new sites, Huffpost Women and Huffpost Parents. The Huffpost Womens section which can be found at huffingtonpost.com/women is being edited by Margaret Wheeler Johnson who has worked […]

AOL Launches AOL HD

AOL Launches AOL HD

AOL has launched AOL HD, a dedicated video service that will deliver HD video to views on connected TV platforms including Boxee, Roku and Yahoo! Connected TV. AOL HD features three main channels of AOL Huffington Post Media Group content: […]

AOL Stock Hits 52 Week Low

AOL Stock Hits 52 Week Low

AOL stock dropped over 4% today after hitting 52-week low of $17.62 in early trading. AOL Shares are down 21.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. The drop in the share price follows the decision […]