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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Arianna Huffington

1. February 10, 2011 09:52 AM

   After AOL/HuffPo Merger, a Columnist Jumps Ship

   Politics Daily’s Matt Lewis won’t work for Arianna

   By Joel Meares

   Following the weekend announcement that AOL was acquiring The Huffington Post, we wondered what would become of AOL’s political news brand, Politics Daily. We also asked what Arianna Huffington’s promotion to the head of all AOL content would mean for the generally apolitical brand—“Will this “impresario of the digital left,” as one commentator called her…infuse AOL’s rather vanilla properties with...

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2. February 8, 2011 01:42 PM

   Huffington Post Goes Supersonic

   What do you love/hate about The Huffington Post?

   By The Editors

   Change is in air at the Huffington Post, dahhhh-link. We may not know what the new Huffington Post Media Group will look like when it emerges from the $315 million AOL deal announced this weekend, but chances are it will look at least a little different than the throw-it-at-the-wall site in place today. Arianna Huffington yesterday wrote in an e-mail...

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3. April 16, 2012 05:15 PM

   Six degrees of aggregation

   How The Huffington Post ate the Internet

   By Michael Shapiro

   Of the many and conflicting stories about how The Huffington Post came to be—how it boasts 68 sections, three international editions (with more to come), 1.2 billion monthly page views and 54 million comments in the past year alone, how it came to surpass the traffic of virtually all the nation’s established news organizations and amass content so voluminous...

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4. March 17, 2011 01:35 PM

   The Newspaper Guild Calls for HuffPo Boycott

   By Lauren Kirchner

   The Newspaper Guild of America, which represents 26,000 media workers across the country, has called for a strike of unpaid writers against The Huffington Post. The Guild is joining the art publication Visual Arts Source, which represents fifty artists and had also called for a boycott several weeks prior. According to the Guild’s website: [The Guild] is committed to fair...

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5. February 7, 2011 04:00 PM

   Will HuffProse Infect AOL?

   The politics of the Huffington Post/AOL merger

   By Joel Meares

   The announcement that AOL will acquire the Huffington Post, and that Arianna Huffiington will take control of all AOL content as president and editor-in-chief of the coming Huffington Post Media Group, is not boding well for Melinda Henneberger’s not-yet-two-year-old Politics Daily. Among the icons on a graphic depicting the merger and headlining the Huffington Post today—HuffPo verticles among AOL brands...

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