The Huffington Post maintains a small army of wage slaves who spend all day "moderating" the site's millions of comments. Their current primary task: to ensure that no comments are published about Arianna Huffington's wanton airplane Blackberry-ing incident.
Betsy Morgan, the former CEO of The Huffington Post, has taken a job running Glenn Beck's website. Hmm. Isn't there something troubling about leaping from one ideological organization to an opposite one so quickly? Morgan has a compelling explanation.
Vanity Fair has taken a look at the case of Peter Daou and James Boyce, two Democratic operatives who claim Arianna Huffington stole their idea for the Huffington Post. That idea? A Democratic political operation masquerading as a news site.
In your intrepid Thursday media column: the NYT's Tim O'Brien leaves for HuffPo (with memo!), NPR listeners have already forgotten Juan Williams, MSNBC salutes Larry King, and The Bloomberg Way of Opinion is coming.
In your icy Tuesday media column: Kathy and A.C. are back for New Year's eve, Larry King's nearly done at CNN, John Roberts leaves morning TV, and HuffPo's profitability confirmed.
Two Democratic political consultants are suing rich website owner Arianna Huffington and her business partner Ken Lerer, claiming that Huffington and Lerer stole their idea for The Huffington Post. How convenient that it was called "The Huffington Post," then!
Republican heartthrob and fancy belt-wearer Aaron Schock is at the Huffington Post's NYC office as we type. Someone should tell him hanging out with Arianna Huffington will do nothing to slow those rumors about being a closeted gay Republican.
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Arianna Huffington's failed attempt at nonprofit journalism, was taken over by the Center for Public Integrity. Now the Center for Public Integrity has been taken over by a right-wing hack. Ha-ha!
Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington provided free buses from New York to Washington, D.C. for Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity. Unfortunately, most of them showed up late. Not really a great way to restore sanity, in the end.
The Taiwanese studio behind those computer-animated news re-enactments has finally gone too far: They've killed Gawker, in a senseless hit-and-run engineered by a whip-wielding Arianna Huffington. And all we wanted to do was go to the Jon Stewart rally!
Pundit Juan Williams got a $2 million contract from Fox News for telling the world he was scared of Muslims. Now this Huffington Post columnist wants in on the action. She's really scared of Muslims! Give her money and fame.
In your cooling Tuesday media column: the Daily Beast-Newsweek fallout shakeout, the hero of the Enron story moves to Slate, Lou Dobbs reveals widespread stupidity, HuffPo's investigative demise confirmed.
The Huffington Post is poised to announce a merger of its investigative fund with the Center for Public Integrity tomorrow morning, a move that will effectively end the fund as it exists today, we hear.
[Here is the image the Huffington Post used to illustrate the good news that the Air Force has stopped enforcing Don't Ask Don't Tell. Goose would be thrilled—spoiler alert—if he didn't die tragically.]
In your paltry Tuesday media column: Fox News wants the Latino eyeball, the Brits unite against Rupert Murdoch, Hoda Kotb has a book, the NYT Magazine steals from Oprah, and how to find HuffPo, on the internet.
In your precipitous Monday media column: HuffPo's hefty bus price tag, the Tina Brown-to-Newsweek deal seems very close, a Jarvis-Weisberg Twitter feud, the Chicago Tribune's editor consoles his staff, and our boss is finally in a real magazine.
Arianna Huffington's web venture is finally in the black. It only took five years, thousands of volunteer bloggers and the most clever search engine optimization that money can buy.
Tonight, Arianna Huffington visited The Daily Show and dropped a bomb on Jon Stewart when she pledged an unlimited amount of HuffPo buses to his "Rally to Restore Sanity" for New Yorkers who need to hitch a ride. Video inside.
In your wide-ranging Tuesday media column: HuffPo lashes out at an unpaid former writer, NBC's worth revealed, Reuters wants to be like us, and Jay Rosen tells a story.
The New York Times Co. says it will post a loss in the third quarter. Print ad revenue's slowing, growth of online ad revenue's slowing, and there's no paywall (yet). More alarming: NYT stars are leaving—for the internet!