Today Arianna Huffington stuck another pin her map of blog world domination.
Bienvenue, Le Huffington Post Québec!
Like other international HuffPo launches, Le Huffington Post Québec (HPQ) is a partnership with a local media company, Bell Canada and its agency Media Experts. But unlike the other publicized spin-offs and verticals, HPQ conspicuously lacks a celebrity editor or blogger. Read More
We've previously documented the wonderfully instigation-happy writing style of Alexia Tsotsis, the TechCrunch blogger who clearly knows something about severance packages at AOL that everyone else doesn't. Because she's at it again, writing like she wants to get fired, or at least test the limits of TechCrunch's autonomy and/or Arianna Huffington's patience. Read More
Le Huffington Post has found an editorial director in Anne Sinclair, wife of former I.M.F. director turned perp walk all-star Dominique Strauss-Kahn, reports L'Express.
Word reportedly got out because invitations to the site's launch party on Monday listed Ms. Sinclair as a host. The Huffington Post France, like El Huffington Post, is a collaboration between the AOL-owned blog behemoth and a local paper, in its case, Le Monde. Read More
The Huffington Post has given up the name of its parenting blog, "Parentlode," columnist Lisa Belkin announced yesterday. The New York Times thought the name was too similar to that of its own parenting blog, "Motherlode," which was written by Ms. Belkin until she moved to The Huffington Post two months ago. When she Read More
IMPRESSIVE DISPLAYS OF CHUTZPAH
Alexia Tsotsis was a well-liked and popular tech blogger before she was at TechCrunch, back when she was at SF Weekly. She became even more well-liked and popular when Michael Arrington corralled her into going to TechCrunch, which was shortly before AOL bought the site out and promised Michael Arrington the full editorial autonomy to be as combative and belligerent with his new ownership as he had been with anyone with the past. Not long after, AOL chief content capo Arianna Huffington pushed Michael Arrington out to show him just how much autonomy the irascible feeding-hand-biting blogging mogul had. Because TechCrunch's chief Kool-Aid mixer, Mr. Arrington, was out of the picture, some of the best TechCrunch writers on staff started quitting. Ms. Tsotsis has held out.
It is now safe to say she appears tired of holding out. Read More
For every Huffington Post vertical, a bold-face editor-at-large.
The Divorce vertical has Nora Ephron, Huff/Post 50 has Rita Wilson, Business has the economist Simon Johnson, and, as of today, Huffington Post Gay Voices has Michelangelo Signorile, the Sirius XM radio host and author of Queer in America. Read More
It wouldn’t be another glorious fall week in New York if there weren’t more celebrities down at Zuccotti Park. Unfortunately, Kanye has not made a return visit, but Alec Baldwin did put his hours in, as did Meghan McCain, who voiced approval for the message of the 99 percent in her recent Daily Beast column. Ms. McCain’s biggest issue with the protests? Pot smoke and a guy wearing a tinfoil cape. Mr. Baldwin? Hippies pressuring him to admit he’s a libertarian. Read More
The Huffington Post is launching verticals faster than we could dream them up. Last week the blog portal launched local news verticals for Detroit and Miami and today Arianna Huffington announced a partnership with French news publishers Le Monde Group and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendantes (“LNEI”) to launch an international spin-off site called Le Huffington Read More
Arianna Huffington gets the Vogue profile treatment this week. It's online.
According to the profile, Ms. Huffington has not changed radically since her New Yorker profile in 2008.
"The most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus," cf Michael White, remains the best thing ever written about her. Read More
The riots in London seem finally to have subsided, but strange things are afoot stateside this week, so much so that we’re starting to wonder if Mercury, which went retrograde Aug. 3, is currently doing to the entire planet what it once did so publicly to Jeremy Piven. (Also, when does the statute of limitations Read More
To celebrate the launch of new Huffington Post verticals HuffPo Women and HuffPo Parents yesterday, Arianna Huffington sat down for a live newsroom video chat with Marlo Thomas, star of the ’60s sitcom That Girl and author of the New Age children’s classic Free to Be You and Me.
Ms. Thomas will serve as editor at large for the lavender-themed women’s site, contributing original video content. According to Forbes, she will make a cool $1 million doing it—which, if true, must be the biggest payday she’s had in years. She will be joined by new managing editor Farah Miller, former digital chief of OWN: The Oprah Network.
The hires make sense: Ms. Huffington is known for her New Age leanings (she and a former flame, the late Bernard Levin, briefly followed metaphysical guru John-Roger), and Off the Record has noted a sort of Oprah Winfrey-style secular spirituality about Ms. Huffington lately. Read More
The Huffington Post’s editorial credibility was called into question again today when GrubStreet.com reported Marion Nestle had been listed as a co-author for an article about a proposed NYC sugar-sweetened beverage ban. "I was amazed to see it. I don’t recall writing it,” Nestle said on her blog. The article now stands corrected Read More
Last weekend in the Bronx, Derek Jeter made Yankee history by becoming the first player in the franchise to reach 3,000 hits. His dramatic homer deep into left field in the third inning of Saturday’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays thrilled fans—especially Christian Lopez, who caught the Read More
Arianna Huffington has made her triumphant return to the country where she spent her salad days and Huffington Post UK went live this morning. "In so many ways my time in Britain set the course of my life," writes Ms. Huffington in her first editor's note, "I started (and finished) college here. I started Read More
On her blog yesterday Arianna Huffington had a long response to Jonathan Tasini's class-action lawsuit suing her for lack of payment, which in essence, is that the former Congressional/Senate candidate is "utterly cynical."
I'm looking at the proof of it right now: multiple emails (now collected in a legal file) Tasini has sent to me Read More
