Arianna Huffington | The New York Observer

Arianna Climbs Into the Top Tier With ‘That Man,’ Drudge

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:34:22 -0500

In the spring of 2005, when asked about Arianna Huffington’s plan to launch a news-aggregating blog to compete with the Drudge Report, Matthew Drudge did not seem too impressed.

“I don’t think that need is there,” he told The Observer. “I think I fill that need.”

And while he allowed that Ms. Huffington had “tons of charm and humor,” he questioned whether she and her coterie of boldface names had...

Hillary's Web Guru Strikes Again

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:46:25 -0500

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After Criticism, HuffPo Mulls Revenue-Sharing Model—With a Twist

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:27:33 -0500

Remember all that outrage a couple weeks back about the fact that The Huffington Post doesn't plan on paying its bloggers? Well, it looks like something good might actually come out of it.

In an interview with Portfolio.com, Arianna Huffington said that she's considering a revenue-sharing model which would allow her contributors to direct a portion of the ad revenue generated by their stories to a cause of their choice.

The Portfolio.com story also...

At Atlantic Party, Haves and Have-Nots

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:21:08 -0500

Last night at a party for The Atlantic Monthly's 150th anniversary, held on the stage of the NYU student center auditorium, the aging cable-access porn star Robin Byrd was looking around the room. She saw Robert DeNiro, and locked in.

"Hello!" she said, touching his right arm.

"Hi" he replied.

"Hi," she said, curling a smile.

"Hi, hi," he replied, holding his look for an extra second and turned away.

CNN Throws Big Bash For Trendy 'Planet in Peril' Doc

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:46:36 -0400

Last night, several hundred of New York’s most fashionably eco-aware gathered at the Museum of Natural History for a screening of CNN’s “Planet In Peril,” a two-part documentary reported by Anderson Cooper , Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and Jeff Corwin, set to air on October 23rd and October 24th.

The guest list read like the seating chart at Michael's, and of them at least Larry King, Arianna Huffington (sans crutches) and CNN president Jonathan Klein...

Lamont's Woes

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:00:00 -0400

First, Ned Lamont is falling behind Joe Lieberman in fund-raising. Lamont has $330,000 on hand, compared to Lieberman's $4.7 million. And now, Arianna Huffington is writing a theoretical obituary for him, blaming the consultants Lamont brought on board for dulling down a once-exciting campaign.

"The addition to the Lamont campaign after the primary of Democratic insiders Howard Wolfson, Doug Schoen, and Stephanie Cutter has been part of the problem. According to their poll-driven culture,...

The Transom

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Word-of-Mouth

East 66th Street, Tom Freston’s townhouse. “Arianna’s the most protean person around,” said Ed Kosner, of Arianna Huffington. “Look it up. Not protein.” The former Daily News editor in chief was leaning on a rail, waiting for his wife. He blogs for Ms. Huffington’s Huffington Post. “It’s fun.” “She’s very inventive and very intelligent and has good English education,” said Mr. Kosner. “I think she has always been fearless, from the...

The Transom

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Word-of-Mouth East 66th Street, Tom Freston’s townhouse. “Arianna’s the most protean person around,” said Ed Kosner, of Arianna Huffington. “Look it up. Not protein.” The former Daily News editor in chief was leaning on a rail, waiting for his wife. He blogs for Ms. Huffington’s Huffington Post. “It’s fun.” “She’s very inventive and very intelligent and has good English education,” said Mr. Kosner. “I think she has always been fearless, from the first time...

The Peach Pile-Up! Tom Freston, Jonathan Cheban, Mrs. Tobey McGuire, Prince Charles, and Chris Meloni

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:39:34 -0400

What's Next for Tom Freston? Arianna Huffington turns on abrasive bloggers! Gotham’s Very Gay Bachelor List. 27 out of 101? Really? Mrs. Tobey McGuire Does Lunch. In L.A., everyone can hear you talk about therapy and baby names at lunch. Meeting Prince Charles. Royal protocol at Asprey. Chris Meloni Rocks the Globe. The celebs continue to convene for the Globe Theater that as of yet...

Not Angry Enough

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:49:34 -0400

You'd think the day after Bill Clinton goes on Fox News and tells his interviewer, "You did Fox's bidding -- you did your nice little conservative hit job on me," the liberal netroots would be ecstatic. But some of them are considerably less impressed with the way Clinton's performance looks the morning after. Ariana Huffington said that instead "of popping champagne corks, let's make use of this moment by stepping back and giving it some...

Would It Be Anti-Friendly to Note the Coverline Is in 200-Point Red Text?

Fri, 26 May 2006 02:47:58 -0400

Anti-Matter "Arianna Huffington, among others, has grown besotted with Gore's newfound 'authenticity,' and contrasts it with Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton's 'triangulation' and 'phoniness.' New York magazine slapped Gore's face on the cover and dubbed him 'The Anti-Hillary.'" –THE GORE MOMENT, by John Podhoretz, The New York Post, May 26,...

Gore Is Bigger Than Ever!

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:00:00 -0500

A crowd of nearly 500 in the Library Theater in Park City, Utah, stayed on through a standing ovation and into the question-and-answer session as Al Gore—one Kentucky reporter actually addressed him as “Mr. President,” to laughs and cheers—restated his warnings about the “planetary emergency,” global warming. Mr. Gore is the star of a documentary entered in the Sundance Film Festival, An Inconvenient Truth, and all the questions were for him. The director, Davis...

Hillary's Rough Week

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:18:00 -0500

The "plantation" remark seems mostly forgotten, but Arianna Huffington piles on Hillary nonetheless, countering what she sees as the conventional wisdom that Hillary is a lock. I think there may be a new "Hillary: Not Such a Lock?" bit of conventional wisdom emerging actually...and there's a lot of time for yet more conventional wisdom between now and 2007. Huffington loves the (overstated) notion that Hillary's success upstate has no bearing on national politics, and offers...

Bloggorhea

Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:00:00 -0400

** Exclusive! **

SOURCES: WARREN BEATTY TO BLOG! The Observer has learned that Warren Beatty, the 68-year-old actor and director, will likely join a lineup of liberal all-stars who will "group blog" on a Web site to be launched next month by columnist Arianna Huffington. "I probably will," Mr. Beatty said, on the phone from his production office in Los Angeles. The "Huffington Report," as Ms. Huffington has dubbed it, will also feature such boldface bloggers...

Fucking Articulate

Sun, 18 Apr 2004 20:00:00 -0400

Not everyone stuffed into MTV Networks chairman Tom Freston's East 66th Street townhouse on April 12 wanted to say how they'd made a fool of themselves recently-even though the party was for Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America, Arianna Huffington's 10th book.

Her publisher at Miramax Books, Harvey Weinstein, declined to comment on any instances of his foolishness or fanaticism. "I'm retired," he said, before turning his attention to investment banker...

They'd Rather Be In Philadelphia!

Sun, 06 Aug 2000 20:00:00 -0400

It was 10:15 on a soupy Philadelphia night and Arianna Huffington was already running behind in getting her revolution started. Ms. Huffington–the helmet-haired columnist, Maria Callas biographer, neo-con talking head, and former doting spouse of moneybags Republican Senate hopeful Michael Huffington–was supposed to be four blocks away at a modest little restaurant called the White Dog Cafe, hosting a party for a group of disenfranchised activists called the Shadow Convention.

Trying to capitalize on...