Topic: Arianna Huffington

You Probably Should Watch This Amazon Musical Pilot About a Fake HuffPost

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Let's just get this straight off the bat: working for an online publication does not offer a lot of opportunities to break out into song, and though we don't work at the Huffington Post, we assume that their day-to-day blogging at that operation also does not lend itself to the musical comedy treatment. 

By Adam Clark Estes

Apr 1, 2013

How on Earth Could Arianna Huffington Do $275,000 Worth of Damage to Her Chelsea Loft?

The owner of a New York City apartment is accusing former tenant Arianna Huffington of trashing the place, leaving bloodied mattresses, gouged wood floors and a very expensive scratched up table. 

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By Jen Doll

Aug 28, 2012

There's a Right Way and a Wrong Way to Insult Someone Online

Donald Trump's tweet that Arianna Huffington "is unattractive both inside and out" reminds us that there are good ways and bad ways to deliver a pithy online retort. His is the latter. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Aug 28, 2012

Donald Trump Makes Bid for Nastiest Man of the Year with an Attack on Arianna Huffington

There's pretty gross stuff spewing from Donald Trump's Twitter account this morning, as the comb-overed real estate mogul unleashed on Arianna Huffington calling her "unattractive" and the reason why "her husband left her for a man."

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By Adam Martin

Aug 2, 2012

Unsurprisingly, Huffington Post Makes Its Tablet Magazine Free

With an enormous website full of free content every day, it seems that asking readers to pay 99 cents per issue for a tablet magazine from Huffington Post always did seem like an incongruity, which is why AOL is offering the publication for free.

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By Hannah Miet

Jul 15, 2012

Newark Mayor Cory Booker on Weed Law, Romney, and Why He's Not Vegan

Newark Mayor Cory Booker opened his internet doors to Reddit users in an "Ask Me Anything" session on Sunday. He explained, among other things, what went through his mind when he ran into that burning building.

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By John Hudson

Jul 1, 2012

Ask Aspen: What's the Most Misunderstood Aspect About Your Job?

At the Aspen Ideas Festival, we're asking the jet-setting attendees one big question a day. Today: What's the most misunderstood aspect about your job?

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By John Hudson

Jun 6, 2012

Huffington Post's Sideboob Vertical Is Fake, But Speculatron Is Still Real

Imagine the dismay of pubescent males everywhere when Arianna Huffington told The Guardian today that her site's new Sideboob vertical is actually just a joke.

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By Ray Gustini

May 29, 2012

What the Tweet?

Arianna Huffington, Queen Elizabeth, and Veggie Tails

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.

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By Jeff Roberts, PaidContent

May 22, 2012

How Arianna May Have Built Her Baby on a Stolen Idea

A series of emails between Arianna Huffington, her partners and the late conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart shed new light on the early days of The Huffington Post.

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By Adam Clark Estes

May 4, 2012

By Adam Martin

Apr 11, 2012

Patch's Editor-in-Chief Quits As Nicely As Possible

Brian Farnham, the guy in charge of AOL's Patch network, is leaving because Patch is not enough of a start-up for him, he said in an unnervingly positive farewell blog post Wednesday.

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By Eric Randall

Apr 4, 2012

Michael Arrington Is (Briefly) Back at TechCrunch

Michael Arrington, founder of of the popular tech blog TechCrunch is back and guest blogging for the site despite an epic, public flame war with the blog's corporate owners at AOL that ended with his exit.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Feb 24, 2012

Activist Shareholder Calls on AOL to Fire Board Members

After a short break from daily bad news, AOL's management is once again being needled in public.

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By Ray Gustini

Feb 10, 2012

What the Tweet?

Homophones, Love, and a Little Black Dress

After a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing out favorite tweets that didn't make sense.

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By Adam Martin

Jan 11, 2012

It's Not a Bad Sign If a Job Interview Is Filmed

Having a television crew document the "biggest job interview of [your] young life" sounds absolutely horrifying at first, but it seems that if you do even halfway well, the prospective boss pretty much has to hire you or she looks like an insane person (or worse).

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By Elspeth Reeve

Dec 14, 2011

Mitt vs. Newt and the Battle of Decades Past

To win the Republican nomination, both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich must atone for the same sin -- embodying the excesses of a decade past. But which one will win out? The 1980s or the 1990s?

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By Adam Clark Estes

Nov 21, 2011

Inside the 'Magical Land' of Arianna Huffington

This week, New York becomes the latest glossy magazine to profile Arianna Huffington, and like many journalists who've tackled the task before her, the magazine's Vanessa Grigoriadis paints a complex if underhanded portrait

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Oct 13, 2011

Arianna Huffington Knows a Lot About Non-Stories

She dismisses the interest in her flap with Michael Arrington as our culture's "OCD"

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 12, 2011

The BlackBerry Outage Just Got Real

Not one of Arianna Huffington's three BlackBerry's work!

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 12, 2011

Grasping for Meaning in the Huffington-Arrington Spat

Huffington blames the media in her defense of her journalism ethics

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Sep 8, 2011

After Arrington: Anarchy at TechCrunch

Ousting the tech blog's founder leaves a power vacuum in Silicon Valley

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By Adam Martin

Sep 7, 2011

The Arrington-Huffington Fight Simplified by Taiwanese Video

Next Media Animation's version of the TechCrunch scandal is more colorful than most

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 6, 2011

Michael Arrington Wants to Buy TechCrunch Back from AOL

If not that, he wants a clean break from The Huffington Post

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By John Hudson

Aug 31, 2011

What an AOL Garage Sale Would Look Like

If AOL goes private, here are the properties on the chopping block

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By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 12, 2011

Some of Huffington's Fanfare Hires Are Quietly Leaving

Reporter Shahien Nasiripour is Huffington Post's second big loss this week

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By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 11, 2011

AOL Will Buy Back Its Collapsing Stock

In an effort to stop the bleeding, Tim Armstrong is offering shareholders $250 million

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By Dino Grandoni

Jul 12, 2011

As the World Aggregates: Huffington Post Put on the Defensive

After criticism for "sketchy aggregation," the site dismisses one of its aggregators

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By John Hudson

Jun 21, 2011

The Many Brawls of Michael Arrington

The latest: a veiled threat to a tech executive who he blames for not handing him a scoop

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jun 9, 2011

By John Hudson

Jun 7, 2011

The Honeymoon Is Over for AOL-Huffington Post

Four months after the $315 million acquisition, critics are scrutinizing the wisdom of the deal

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By Elspeth Reeve

May 11, 2011

Why Newt Must Run: Arianna Huffington's 1995 Pitch

Huffington may have changed, but the way we see Gingrich hasn't

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By Adam Martin

May 4, 2011

Arianna Huffington Announces New 'Local Voices' for Patch.com

Army of unpaid, hyper-local bloggers goes to work

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By Erik Hayden

May 4, 2011

AOL's Profit Plunges 86% in the First Quarter

Advertising gains don't offset a 24 percent subscription revenue decline

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By John Hudson

Apr 29, 2011

Arianna Huffington's Legitimacy Problem

The Huffington Post founder may have just lost her credibility war with The New York Times

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By Adam Martin

Apr 26, 2011

AOL Is Serious About Recruiting 8,000 Unpaid Bloggers in Eight Days

The plan is for them to write a new "local voices" section on Patch.com

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By Ray Gustini

Apr 25, 2011

The Smart Set

Couric Finally Makes It Official; Raimi Fights For Swank

Plus: Emma Watson's leaving Brown, but not because of bullies

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By Adam Martin

Apr 15, 2011

Suing Blogger Compares Huffington to Marie Antoinette

Former HuffPo blogger pulls no punches regarding his lawsuit and his critics

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By Uri Friedman

Apr 14, 2011

Huffington Says the Blogger Suing Her Loved Writing for Free

The first response against a class action lawsuit claims the suit's "utterly without merit"

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By Ray Gustini

Apr 12, 2011

Denton and Huffington Hug; Nicolas Finds His Comic Book

Also in the Smart Set: Eric Benet sighted!

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By John Hudson

Apr 6, 2011

Huffington Post Fires an Editor for Asking Writers to Work for Free

The editor of Moviefone is sacked one day after she sacked her freelancers

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By Elspeth Reeve

Apr 4, 2011

Obama 2012 Buys Ads on the Totally-Not-Lefty Huffington Post

Reaching out to HuffPo's liberal audience, perchance? The same thing's happening at MSNBC

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By Ray Gustini

Apr 1, 2011

Huffington Post, New York Times Now Jousting Over Paywalls, Smurfs

A combative interview and a rather pointed April Fools' Day joke

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By Elspeth Reeve

Mar 28, 2011

Is the Tina Brown-Arianna Huffington Rivalry Real?

Brown says she'd never name a website after herself

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By John Hudson

Mar 11, 2011

Bill Keller's Shaky Case Against Arianna Huffington

Media observers are siding with Huffington after the New York Times editor's column

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By Ray Gustini

Mar 10, 2011

What's Expected of Arianna Huffington After the AOL Layoffs

AOL laid off 200 editorial employees on Thursday to make way for the new boss

Comments | 528 Views

By Erik Hayden

Mar 4, 2011

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