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1. January 6, 2011 07:17 AM

   Vanity Fair’s Odd HuffPo Story

   By Felix Salmon

   What to make of Bill Cohan's big Vanity Fair piece on a slightly skeevy lawsuit where a pair of Democratic party operatives are trying to pull a Winklevoss on Arianna Huffington? Arianna's flack, Mario Ruiz, is clearly enjoying being asked to comment on it: It's a great story—if you read it backwards. At the end of the article, the writer...

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2. 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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3. February 10, 2011 06:00 PM

   AOL Settled with Unpaid “Volunteers” for $15 Million

   Why the HuffPost bloggers won’t be so lucky, and why that matters

   By Lauren Kirchner

   When AOL acquired The Huffington Post for $315 million this week, we at CJR wondered, among other things, whether the thousands of bloggers who have contributed free writing to The Huffington Post would continue to do so after the sale, or whether they’d feel slighted at being left out of the profits. We also asked what the merger meant for...

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4. February 14, 2011 06:11 PM

   AOL’s HuffPo Premium Doesn’t Mean Much For the NYT

   By Ryan Chittum

   Frederic Filloux has some harsh criticism of The Huffington Post's business model, calling it "a digital sandcastle." But what caught my eye was this at the bottom of his piece: What ailing AOL bought is vapor. About 35% of the HuffPo’s users come form Google. They land on cleverly optimized content: stories borrowed from other (and consenting) medias that mostly...

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5. February 7, 2011 06:57 PM

   Audit Notes: A Disney Delivery, Tribes and Payday Loans, HuffPo/AOL

   By Ryan Chittum

   The New York Times reports that Disney is trying to capitalize on the massive baby market by infiltrating the hospital immediately after birth: In this new venture, the company gains access to the maternity hospitals through a company called Our365, a business that sells bedside baby pictures. Our365 pays hospitals for exclusive access, and companies like Disney pay Our365 to...

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6. January 24, 2011 08:44 PM

   Audit Notes: Crisis Panel Has Teeth?, Mortgage Fraud, Corporate Size

   By Ryan Chittum

   Shahien Nasiripour of The Huffington Post scoops that the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission may just have some impact after all: It has referred several cases to authorities for prosecution, as required under the law that created the panel. The bipartisan panel appointed by Congress to investigate the financial crisis has concluded that several financial industry figures appear to have broken...

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7. February 25, 2011 06:51 PM

   Audit Notes: Grand Oil Party, The Limits of Anecdote, Mod Investors

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Economist's Matt Steinglass reports on an egregious government giveaway to the oil companies—one that started accidentally and has now been intentionally enshrined by Republicans in Congress. The Minerals Management Service was supposed to give free leases to oil drillers in the Gulf in areas in which paying royalties would make drilling uneconomic. So apparently, in 1998-99, the folks at...

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8. December 1, 2010 08:42 PM

   Audit Notes: The Federal Reserve’s Trillion-Dollar Bailout Document Dump

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Federal Reserve today released a trove of information, much of which was sought by Bloomberg's Mark Pittman lawsuit, on its multi-trillion dollar programs to bail out the financial system. The Huffington Post's Shahien Nasiripour zeroes in on the massive subsidies the Fed gave foreign banks: Deutsche Bank, a German lender, has sold the Fed more than $290 billion worth...

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9. November 13, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: Whinin’ Dimon, Elizabeth Warren, WSJ on Petraeus

   JPMorgan CEO takes to CNBC for consolation

   By Ryan Chittum

   I got a chuckle from Mark Gongloff's Huffington Post piece on Jamie Dimon taking his anti-administration whining to the friendly confines of CNBC: Dimon on Friday afternoon did his whining on CNBC, which has become a sort of Dr. Phil for aggrieved CEOs in the wake of the national catastrophe that is Obama's reelection, according to CNBC. Dimon played some...

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10. July 12, 2011 05:14 PM

    Huffington Post and “Over-Aggregation”

    Where do we draw the line between aggregation and plagiarism?

    By The Editors

    AdAge media columnist Simon Dumenco recently posed a good question to the online news community: “What constitutes unfair -- unethical -- aggregation?” The question came up after Dumenco noticed that a Huffington Post writer had cribbed the central idea and supporting factual information from Dumenco’s earlier piece, "Poor Steve Jobs Had to Go Head to Head With Weinergate in the...

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11. 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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12. February 4, 2011 12:19 PM

    HuffPo Goes Underwater for Mortgage Story

    Tip of the hat to a housing crisis report

    By Joel Meares

    A deep Friday tip of the hat to HuffPo’s Ryan Grim, Arthur Delaney, and Lucia Graves for their lengthy piece, “Learning To Walk: Fear, Shame, And Your Underwater Mortgage,” published yesterday. It’s a smart and mostly dispassionate examination of the reasons mortgage holders who find themselves underwater choose to walk away from their homes—or, alternatively, to stay and continue...

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13. February 25, 2011 02:30 PM

    HuffPo Shows OCC Still Poster Child of Regulatory Capture

    By Ryan Chittum

    The Huffington Post's Shahien Nasiripour has some interesting reporting in a story on the Obama administration's move to settle the fraudclosure scandal with banks for up to $30 billion in fines and writedowns. He reports state attorneys general want the settlement to be even bigger. But most interesting to me is the reporting on what the Office of the Comptroller...

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14. April 20, 2011 01:08 PM

    HuffPo Strong on North Carolina Benefits Expiring

    Arthur Delaney’s solid unemployment reporting

    By Joel Meares

    The Huffington Post’s Arthur Delaney has been doing some solid work following an important unemployment and budget story out of North Carolina that this weekend took a turn—and which has been somewhat drowned out in the national news cycle. It’s a story about the flipside of growth. On Saturday, Democratic governor Beth Perdue vetoed a bill pushed through the...

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15. June 24, 2011 02:38 PM

    HuffPo’s Missing Gephardt Disclosure

    By Joel Meares

    Sebastian Jones, an editor at the liberal Washington Monthly, has shot a sharp dart at The Huffington Post for publishing an op-ed by former Missouri congressman Dick Gephardt that was missing a key disclosure: Gephardt, who was attacking the president’s health care reform bill, is, in Jones’s words, “a lobbyist representing the very corporate interests gunning to kill the program.”...

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16. October 25, 2012 11:00 AM

    HuffPost launches a platform for user-generated reporting

    “Firsthand” to premiere “a new type of comment”

    By Hazel Sheffield

    An October 1 editorial from Arianna Huffington announced The Huffington Post’s latest development in user engagement: Firsthand. Developed using a reporting platform called Ushahidi, Firsthand invites users to contribute words, images, or video to show how issues track across geographical areas. For its first month, Firsthand is appealing to the Huffington Post community for stories on mortgage refinancing and foreclosures....

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17. August 13, 2012 05:11 PM

    HuffPost Live Launches

    It’s about conversations rather than citizen journalism, says founding editor Roy Sekoff

    By Hazel Sheffield

    When Huffington Post Live launched on Monday morning, its founding editor, Roy Sekoff, quickly found reasons to be proud of the work he put into building the video streaming service. “One of the first ideas that I ever had was the segment called Defend Your Comment, Sekoff said. “What if we got a commenter who said something really strong on...

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18. December 2, 2010 07:19 PM

    Inured to “Trillions”

    Take a step back on the Federal Reserve bailout story

    By Ryan Chittum

    The Federal Reserve is forced by Congress to reveal who it secretly bailed out with trillions of dollars in loans. Yesterday it releases the documents, which reveal that: — Foreign banks were the biggest recipients of the Term Auction Facility and Term Securities Lending Facility bailout loans numbering in the trillions of dollars — The Fed took on more than...

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19. April 20, 2011 03:59 PM

    Misinformation On Killed and Injured Photographers

    Sad news brings a lesson on caution

    By Joel Meares

    There has been much confusion in the wake of reports that documentary filmmaker Tim Hetherington was killed today in Misrata, Libya, and three other photographers were injured, two gravely. Initial reports were that Hetherington and photographer Chris Hondros were both killed—but the Times and others are now reporting that Hondros and photographer Guy Martin are in grave condition rather...

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20. February 7, 2011 02:55 PM

    Parsing the AOL/HuffPo Merger

    What everyone gets out of the deal, and what to look for next

    By Lauren Kirchner

    After Sunday night’s announcement that AOL is buying The Huffington Post for $315 million and giving Arianna Huffington editorial control over all of the media group’s content, let’s take a look at what everyone involved is getting out of this deal: The Huffington Post: Money! Money and resources. As Arianna Huffington wrote in an e-mail to her site’s bloggers this...

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