HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes shortened HuffPo ) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blogs that have local and international editions. Founded in 2005 by Andrew Breitbart, Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti. The site offers original news, satire, blogs and content and includes politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interest, and local news.
The Huffington Post was launched on May 9, 2005, as a liberal commentary outlet, blogs, and alternatives to news aggregators such as the Drudge Report, and continues to maintain a liberal political stance. On February 7, 2011, AOL acquired The Huffington Post for US $ 315 million, making Arianna Huffington the chief editor of The Huffington Post Media Group.
In July 2012, The Huffington Post was ranked No. 1. 1 on the Top 15 Political Sites list by eBizMBA Rank , which bases the list on each Alexa Global Traffic Rank site and the US Traffic Rank of Compete and Quantcast. In 2012,
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Histori
The Huffington Post was founded by Arianna Huffington, Andrew Breitbart, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti on May 9, 2005. It has an active community, with over a million comments made on the site each month.
Before The Huffington Post , Huffington hosted the Ariannaonline.com website. His first throw-up to the Internet was the Resignation.com website, which called for the resignation of President Bill Clinton and was the gathering place for conservatives who opposed Clinton.
In August 2016, Arianna Huffington resigned from her old role as editor in chief to pursue other ventures, and in December of that year was officially replaced by Lydia Polgreen.
In April 2017, Polgreen announced that the company would rebrand, change its name to HuffPost and reveal significant changes to its website design and logo. Polgreen also stated that the redesign will be accompanied by content changes and site reporting.
Local edition
In about June 2007, the site launched its first local version, HuffPost Chicago . In June 2009, HuffPost New York was launched, followed soon by HuffPost Denver launched on September 15, 2009, and HuffPost Los Angeles launched on 2 December 2009. In 2011, three new regional editions were launched: HuffPost San Francisco on July 12, Detroit HuffPost , on November 17th, and Miami HuffPost in November. Hawaiian HuffPost was launched in collaboration with the online investigation report and the Honolulu Civil Beat public affairs news service on September 4, 2013.
International edition
The Huffington Post launched its first international edition, HuffPost Canada , on May 26, 2011. On July 6 of the same year, Huffington Post UK launched UK edition. On January 23, 2012, Huffington , in partnership with Le Monde and Les Nouvelles edition IndÃ's pendant, launched Le Huffington Post , and the launch of the edition French is the first in a non-English speaking country. On February 8, another French edition was launched in the Canadian province of Quebec. On May Day, a US-based Spanish-language edition was launched under the name HuffPost Voces , replacing AOL Latino's Latin AOL news platform. The next month an edition for Spain was announced, as was one for Germany. On September 24th, the Italian edition, L'Huffington Post , was launched, directed by journalist Lucia Annunziata in collaboration with media company Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso. On May 6, 2013, an edition for Japan was launched with The Asahi Shimbun collaboration, first edition in an Asian country. With the launch of Al Huffington Post , there is a third francophone edition, this time for the Maghreb area. On October 10th, Munich-based Munich Vertical organization
In 2011, after its purchase by AOL, The Huffington Post contains many AOL Voices properties (including AOL Black Voices ), 1995 as Blackvoices.com, and AOL Latino ). The Voices brand was expanded in September 2011 with the launch of Gay Voices , dedicated to articles relevant to LGBT. Other parts formed, such as the Impact (launched in 2010 as a partnership between the Huffington Post and the Causecast), Women Teen , College , Religion , and Spanish Voces (en espaÃÆ'Â ± ol) Voices meta-vertical.
At the end of 2013, The Huffington Post took steps to operate as more of AOL's "stand-alone business", controlling more of its own business and advertising operations, and drive more efforts. toward securing "premium ads".
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Contributor
The site has historically published works by paid staff writers and reporters, and unpaid bloggers. The practice of publishing blog posts from unpaid contributors raises some public controversy. In January 2018, the site ended the post publishing practice of unpaid bloggers, instead launching two "Private" and "Opinion" sections featuring pieces of paid contributors.
In addition to the columns by Arianna Huffington and a group of contributors like John Conyers, Bernie Sanders, Harry Shearer, Leonard Kim, Jeff Pollack, and Roy Sekoff, The Huffington Post has many bloggers - from politicians and celebrities to academics and experts policies - that contribute to various topics. Specialist contributors include spiritual writer Craig Taro Gold and health expert Jeff Halevy.
Celebrities were allowed to use the site's blogging system before, and a number of people chose to do so for years. In many cases, such as Robert Reich, former Minister of Labor, content is posted cross among many sites.
The site also publishes columns by specialists in fields such as Cenk Uygur and Anand Reddi on global health issues, Alice Waters on food, Taryn Hillin who is Associate Editor of Weddings and Post Divorce, Harold Katz on dental hygiene, Suzie Heumann on sex, Diane Ravitch about education, Frances Beinecke and Phil Radford on climate change and the environment, Jacob M. Appel on ethics, Howard Steven Friedman on statistics and politics, Auren Hoffman in business and politics, Jon LaPook on medicine, Santa Maria's way of science, Nancy Rappaport on child psychiatry, and Iris Krasnow about marriage. Colon cancer survivor and conscientious advocate Eric Ehrmann, one of the original contributors to Rolling Stone in 1968, has been part of the HuffPo blogger group since 2009, posting independent political commentary on The Huffington Post , The Huffington Post UK , Le Huffington Post , El Huffington Post and Al Huffington Post Maghreb . It publishes a collection of the latest news and links to selected headlines. The author and former Hollywood story analyst Julie Gray writes for Posting . Michal Shapiro, former Director of Music Video, LINK TV, has covered "world music" for "Post" since 11 April 2010.
On February 17, 2016, it was announced that Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, would be a guest editing series of articles as part of a collaboration designed to improve and better understand mental health issues affecting young people.
On April 9, 2016, the American Sleep Association (ASA) and The Huffington Post announced a partnership to raise awareness about the importance of sleep and the danger of sleep disturbance. Through collaboration, ASA shares information and resources related to sleep information between two platforms.
The Huffington Post ' s OffTheBus is an online news organization that uses amateur journalists who are a collaboration between The Huffington Post , New York University (NYU) and Jay Rosen NewAssignment.Net. The Huffington Post ' s FundRace is a website that tracks contributions to a presidential campaign and includes a mapping feature that shows contributions grouped by city, neighborhood, and blocking.
Business affairs
Investment
In August 2006, The Huffington Post announced that SoftBank Capital will invest 5 million US $ on the site, which has grown in popularity in just a year, to help expand it. The plan includes hiring more staff to update the site 24 hours a day, hiring an internal journalist and a multimedia team to create video reports. Alan Patricof's Greycroft Partners also invests. The news marks the "first round of venture capital funding" sites.
This site has now invested in user-generated content models through video blogging, audio and photo content posted directly on the site.
In November 2008,
On February 7, 2011, AOL announced it will acquire The Huffington Post for US $ 315 million . As part of the deal, Arianna Huffington became president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, including The Huffington Post and the existing AOL properties Engadget, TechCrunch, Moviefone, MapQuest, Black Voices, PopEater (now HuffPost Celebrity ), AOL Music, AOL Latino (now HuffPost Voices ), AutoBlog, Patch, and StyleList.
Labor disputes
In February 2011, Visual Art Source, which has posted material from its website, went on strike against the The Huffington Post . In March 2011, the Huffington Post's strikes and calls were merged and endorsed by the National Writers Union (NWU) and the Newspaper Guild (TNG). The boycott was dropped in October 2011.
In April 2011, The Huffington Post was subjected to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed in the United States District Court in New York by Jonathan Tasini on behalf of thousands of unadjusted bloggers. The lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice on March 30, 2012, by court, stating that bloggers have offered their services, compensating them for publication.
Wil Wheaton refused to allow his work to be reused for free on the site, commenting "the company is really capable of paying contributors.The fact that it is not, and can get away with it, troubles me."
Content and scopes
HuffPost is a politically liberal American news and political opinion website with local and international editions founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, Jonah Peretti, and Andrew Breitbart, featuring columnists. The site offers original news, satire, blogs and content and includes politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interest, and local news.
Launched on May 9, 2005 as The Huffington Post as a clear-liberal-left and alternative comment outlet/blog for news aggregators like the Drudge Report, and continues to maintain a liberal political stance.
Alternative medicine and anti-vaccination controversy
The Huffington Post has been criticized by some science bloggers and online news sources to include blogs by supporters of alternative medicine and anti-vaccine activists.
Steven Novella, president of the New England Skeptical Society, criticized The Huffington Post for allowing Ullman's homeopathic funders to have a blog there:
Dana Ullman, a famous homeopathy apologist, actually has a regular blog on HuffPo. For those of us who follow such things, the start of his blog there marks the point of no return for the Huffington Post - obviously the editors have decided to go down Saruman's street and "abandon the excuse for insanity." They give up every pretense cares about scientific integrity and becomes a pseudosain fabric.
Political attitudes
Commenting on 2012 about increasing conservative involvement on the website despite its reputation as a liberal news source, Arif Huffington's Huffington Post founder his website is "increasingly visible" as an Internet newspaper "not ideologically positioned" in terms of how we cover the news. "According to Michael Steel, the press secretary for Republican Speaker John Boehner, the Republican aide" is involved with liberal sites such as The Huffington Post. [Besides, if for] there is no other reason than [for] they drive a lot of cable coverage. "Jon Bekken, professor of journalism at Suffolk University, has quoted The Huffington Post as an example of" advocacy newspaper. " The Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto mockingly calls it Puffington Host , and Rush Limbaugh often refer to it as Huffing and Puffington Post .
During the 2016 US presidential election, Huffington Post regularly added editorial notes to the end of the story about Donald Trump's candidate, reading: "Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynous and birther who has repeatedly promised to ban all Muslims - 1.6 billion members from the whole religion - from entering the US "After Trump was elected on November 8, 2016, the Huffington Post ended this practice.
Awards
- In 2012, The Huffington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in the national reporting category for the 10-part series of senior military correspondent David Wood about the wounded veteran Beyond the Battlefield . The Huffington Post is the 2010 People's Voice Winner at the 14th Webby Award and is a Winner in Lead411 New York City Hot 125. Huffington Post lost the Webby Award 2010 jury award for Best Political Blog for Truthdig.
- The Huffington Post received a Peabody Award in 2010 for "Trafficked: A Youth Radio Investigation."
- The Huffington Post is the second among 25 Best Blogs of 2009 by Time.
- The Huffington Post won Webby Awards 2006 and 2007 for Best Political Blog.
- Huffington Post Contributors Bennet Kelley was awarded the California Southern California Journalism Award Los Angeles Press Club for Online Comments for political comments published on this site.
- The Huffington Post is the most powerful blog rankings in the world by The Observer .
- Founder of Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington was named in 2009 as number 12 in
' First List of Most Influential Women In Media. In the same year, she was ranked number 42 on The Guardian ' in the Top 100 in Media List. - In 2015, The Huffington Post is nominated for the Responsible Media Award of the Year at the British Muslim Awards.
References
External links
- Official website
- South African HuffPost
- "HuffPost collects news and comments". The Guardian .
- "HuffPost collects news and comments". The New York Times .
- Bill Keller (March 10, 2011), All Aggregates That Are Suitable for Aggregates, New York Times Magazine
- Nieman Journalism Lab. "The Huffington Post". Encyclo: an encyclopedia of the future news . Retrieved April 1, 2012 .
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