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Which Tech Company Is The Next to Get a TV Show?

Entertainment Weekly reports that CBS has ordered a comedy pilot about young gents starting their careers at Groupon. This is all well and good--we'd watch it, if we got a particularly witty email. But we think it's time for MORE tech companies to get television pilots--and we have a few loglines for networks we think could use them! Read More

Mainstream News Organizations Aren’t Very Good At Using Twitter, Study Finds

The journalism community prides itself on its social media use, but a study released yesterday reveals that mainstream news organizations are using Twitter wrong, i.e. to advance their own material as opposed to engaging with readers and followers. Researchers from The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and The George Washington University's School Read More

Roger Ailes’ Knows Sarah Palin is Hot; Has Doctor Call Him Ugly

Phew. Just when you thought Roger Ailes was just a bloodless automaton who only cares about ratings and how expressive anchors can be when he mutes them on television, he opens up and shows his more sensual side.

"I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings," the Fox News president declared to the Associated Press recently. Okay, but which one of those features did you actually find sexually exciting, Mr. Ailes?

We'll never know, as that is all he says on the subject. But don't worry, TV's most infamous exec is full of fun soundbites today! Read More

Kreayshawn Swagging Out at The Huffington Post Today

White girl mob boss Kreayshawn is scheduled to "play some music" at the office of The Huffington Post/AOL today, according to a tipster. AOL Music industry relations rep Adam Horne wrote in an email yesterday:

"Oakland-based, Odd Future-approved, Arby's-hating rapper Kreayshawn will be coming by the office to play some music and visit the staff tomorrow at Read More

The Wee Hours: In Tip Top Shape

"No, Arianna can’t make it,” said the birthday boy. “But,” he continued, sipping his whiskey, “she sent me a birthday email today.” Arianna Huffington, it seems, doesn’t much make it out to Bed-Stuy on a Sunday night.

The birthday boy, a writer for the Huffington Post, had gathered his friends on the eve of Read More

Marine Life Advocate January Jones Makes a Splash in The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post today upped its already formidable stature in the celebrity-blog-platform bracket with the debut of January Jones. Whatever could Mad Men's Betty Draper be writing about? Shark fins!

You see, January Jones is a marine life activist. Or, rather, a shark activist. A sharktivist. A sharkattacktivist. A believer in the shark fin. A Read More

Huffington Post Investigative Arm Merges with Nonprofit Center

In a new venture from two different practitioners of nonprofit investigative journalism, the Center for Public Integrity will join forces with the Huffington Post Investigative Fund. Gawker had the story last night from a source, and it was confirmed by The New York Times a few hours later.

The merger, which will go into effect on Read More

Nick Denton, In Memo to Staff: ‘We Overtook Huffpo (Temporarily)’

Gawker Media overlord Nick Denton sent a memo to staff this morning announcing that the sites in his dominion drew in 9.1 million people this past week, putting it ahead of The Huffington Post. Here's the memo in full, courtesy Romenesko.

From: Nick Denton Subject: We overtook Huffpo (temporarily)To: edit@gawker.comDate: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 11:14 AM
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How to Profile Arianna Huffington: The Inspection Scene

There's another profile of Arianna Huffington out today, this one from Elizabeth Spiers in Forbes. We're starting to notice a pattern in these profiles: the scene where Ms. Huffington introduces the reporter to some of her staff in The Huffington Post's SoHo office. It's normally also the part of the profile where the writer points Read More

Huffington Post to Offer Free Buses to Jon Stewart’s Rally in D.C.

Penny-pinching New Yorkers now have one less excuse for missing Jon Stewart's upcoming Rally to Restore Sanity. Last night on The Daily Show, Arianna Huffington announced that she would be providing transportation to Washington, D.C. for the Oct. 30 event. "We have as many buses as people to fill them," she said.

The rally, which Read More

$100,000 For Glenn Beck’s Sex Tape

(The following is the full text written by Beau Friedlander that was posted to the Huffington Post at 8:18 a.m. on August 30, 2010, and removed by the editors later that day. The page that previously hosted the article is now running the following: "Editor's Note: This piece was published directly to the Huffington Read More

Huffington Post and the Would-Be Glenn Beck Sex Tape

Huffington Post contributor Beau Friedlander published a post to that site this morning offering $100,000 to anyone who could produce a sex tape of Glenn Beck, but it didn't stay online for long. A few hours after it went up the tags were changed from "Politics" to "Comedy," and soon the entire article was gone. Read More

Writing About The Huffington Post is Difficult

Daniel Lyons writes for Newsweek this week about Arianna Huffington, who has recently turned 60 and moved to New York City from Beverly Hills to be closer to her business and her daughters, who are in college at Yale. Mr. Lyons opens with a portrait of Ms. Huffington in her offices on Prince Street: Read More

On Headlines, or ‘Monica Lewinsky Boyfriend: My Date With Bill Clinton’s Blow Job Intern’

David Carr marvels at the maddeningly low-brow, mystically formulaic craft of writing headlines for the web in his column today.
Mr. Carr presents an example from The Huffington Post — "Obama Rejects Rush Limbaugh Golf Match: Rush 'Can Play With Himself'" — to show what best practice has to offer in 2010.

It’s digital Read More

The Huffington Post Turns Focus to Profit, Seeks to Double Revenue in 2010

Five years after its launch, with traffic at 22 million unique visitors last month, The Huffington Post is ready to turn a profit.
Arianna Huffington's site plans to double revenue in 2010, from $15 million to $30 million, transitioning out of what CEO Eric Hippeau called "investment mode" to turn a proft for the first time, Read More