Post Tagged with: "Huffington Post"

Huffington Post Logo Contest Sparks Design Controversy

Huffington Post Logo Contest Sparks Design Controversy

The Huffington Post’s business model has been good for some, and not so good for others- which makes it a controversial topic when compensation for content contributions is discussed. There’s no question as to whether the model benefits some- Arianna […]

Huffington Post UK Slow To Gain Traction, Faces Tough Regional Competition

Huffington Post UK Slow To Gain Traction, Faces Tough Regional Competition

I was reading an interesting post today by the Guardian’s Peter Preston in which he performed a quick tally of comments per article on HuffPost UK’s top 10 blogs. Peter found that three weeks ago the sites stories were receiving just […]

HuffPost LatinoVoices Launches, Provides “American Bicultural Experience”

HuffPost LatinoVoices Launches, Provides “American Bicultural Experience”

AOL Huffington Post Media Group on Thursday announced the launch of HuffPost LatinoVoices, an online community that celebrates and investigates bicultural Hispanic American culture. The new site offering is headed by senior editor Gabriel Lerner, a former News Editor for La […]

Maura Egan Leaves Huffpost After Five Months

Maura Egan Leaves Huffpost After Five Months

Huffington Post deputy entertainment, culture and lifestyle editor Maura Egan is leaving The Huffington Post after serving in the position just shy of five months. WWD reported that Egan wrote in an email simply that “I’d like to leave it […]

AOL Revenues Buoyed By Increased Advertising Revenues, Investors Not Impressed

AOL Revenues Buoyed By Increased Advertising Revenues, Investors Not Impressed

For the first time in three years AOL on Tuesday posted an increase in global advertising revenue during the company’s earnings call. The newly reorganized media publisher posted a net loss of $11.8 million for the quarter, compared to a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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- […]

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 […]