Midday at The Huffington Post's Tampa 'Oasis'
The Huffington Post is no longer just an oasis for laid off print journalists, it's also one for rain-soaked Tampa conventioneers.
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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.
The Huffington Post is no longer just an oasis for laid off print journalists, it's also one for rain-soaked Tampa conventioneers.
Today The Huffington Post launched its web television operation, HuffPost Live, an online news video hub that asks a lot of the watcher compared to the average TV network.
One way to better understand where the Romney campaign's decisions come from is to learn more about its top media strategist, Eric Fehrnstrom, who's the subject of a lengthy Huffington Post profile on Friday.
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.
Consider this a PSA: The Huffington Post has made last month's iPad-only piece about Politico's Hunger Games-like newsroom available on the regular ole Web, so if you didn't buy it the first time around, have a look. [The Huffington Post]
The Huffington Post's new iPad magazine Huffington has hit the proverbial newsstands with a very fun, incestuous read on the inner-workings of Politico.
Liberal policy magazine The American Prospect has raised enough money to survive another year after a launching a frantic fundraising drive at the end of April to cover its operating gap, editor Kit Rachlis told the Huffington Post Wednesday.
The CEO of Buzzfeed and a co-founder of The Huffington Post talks about his break with partisan journalism and how cute animals make us human.
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.
Just over a year after she was anointed queen of content, Arianna Huffington has been knocked down the ladder a couple of rungs at AOL.
The Pulitzer prizes are supposed to be announced at 3 p.m. Monday, so this is prime time for rumors to start spilling out, and the hottest is that Huffington Post will pick up its first prize.
To the delight of Arianna Huffington, we imagine, a judge has dismissed that class action lawsuit filed last Spring by a group of unpaid bloggers suing the Huffington Post for pay, falling on the side of the Huffington Post.
Proving that a news outlet can poach good journalists but not good blog names, The Huffington Post finally unveiled the new moniker for its parenting blog once called "Parentlode." It is, we learn today, now "Parentry."
Anne Sinclair has been named editor of the Huffington Post's French franchise, and though she's an experienced journalist, a lot of her French colleagues think she gave up that mantle when she defended her husband, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, last year.
It's unclear exactly why, but the Department of Homeland has been operating a "Social Networking/Media Capability" program to monitor the top blogs, forums and social networks for at least the past 18 months.
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).
The Huffington Post is losing its top editor, as Nico Pitney prepares to depart the company to be with his wife in California.
After hiring a serious journalist in Ben Smith as its editor-in-chief, BuzzFeed is getting a serious amount of money to back up his effort in churning out serious journalism from the site that got famous from aggregating LOLcats.
Michelle Obama had some very serious disagreements with her husband's staff, and particularly his first chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, according to a forthcoming book from New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor called The Obamas, excerpted by The Times on Friday.
The Huffington Post finally came to a creative solution to avoid further legal scrutiny over stealing inspiration from The New York Times to name its latest blog, Parentlode.
The tech world leaned forward on Wednesday evening when Michael Arrington — the TechCrunch founder who boisterously departed AOL after a spat with Arianna Huffington — warned on Twitter of "some very bad news about AOL."
Even though there's a Tumblr dedicated to pointing out its questionable headlines, The Huffington Post almost never apologizes for offending people.
The New York Times-Huffington Post media spat over Lisa Belkin's Parentlode blog just got legal after The Times filed a lawsuit against the news website.
There's (a little) good news and there's (a lot of) bad news in AOL's third quarter earnings report out Tuesday, leaving some to wonder if Tim Armstrong's big turnaround is still stalled.
Less than 24-hours old, the Huffington Post's new parenting blog is already the target of legal action from The New York Times and insults from Times staffers.
A pair of writers unions are abandoning their seven-month-long boycott against The Huffington Post protesting the website's use of unpaid bloggers citing an agreement, but the web news giant says it's not changing its rules for unpaid writers.
She dismisses the interest in her flap with Michael Arrington as our culture's "OCD"
Writer Marco Arment airs his grievances with the site
A new survey offers tips on the dark art of SEO
The National Union of Journalists is going to hate this
Ousting the tech blog's founder leaves a power vacuum in Silicon Valley
If not that, he wants a clean break from The Huffington Post
Also, disorganized. So many different stories. Here's a quick explanation
According to some analysts, it might be their "last, best hope"
HuffPost organizes a contest that designers want no part of
Reporter Shahien Nasiripour is Huffington Post's second big loss this week
In an effort to stop the bleeding, Tim Armstrong is offering shareholders $250 million
But he was an active college prankster
After criticism for "sketchy aggregation," the site dismisses one of its aggregators
Photos reveal yet another category where the HuffPo tops The Times
Cue debate over new media
An actor from the Twilight series stumbles upon a story by ChristWire.org
Four months after the $315 million acquisition, critics are scrutinizing the wisdom of the deal
The Huffington Post founder may have just lost her credibility war with The New York Times
The British newspaper is now second on the web behind the New York Times
The last time AOL was accused of not paying contributors, it cost them $15 million
The editor of Moviefone is sacked one day after she sacked her freelancers
Andrew Breitbart had a post pulled from the front page for name calling
Huffington says she won't miss them
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