In its first Asian launch, Huffington Post expands to Japan
photo: Flickr / Marcus Vegas
The Huffington Post rolled out its first Asian edition in Japan on Tuesday. Read more at paidContent »
Judge allows case over HuffPo ownership to go forward, adds fraud claim
A bitter fight over who started the Huffington Post took a major twist today after a judge not only refused for the second time to dismiss the case, but also expanded it. Read more at paidContent »
AOL exec is new CEO of HuffPo, will report to Arianna
photo: Photo: Monaco Mediax ©
Huffington Post has a new CEO who will be tasked with building traffic and revenue and continuing the brand’s international expansion. The move comes at a time when parent company AOL appears to have figured out how to manage its media properties. Read more at paidContent »
HuffPo is not for sale, except maybe at the right price
photo: Photo: Monaco Mediax ©
AOL is getting investor interest for taking Huffington Post off its hands. But the pair are fixed on taking Arianna and TechCrunch worldwide. Next up is Japan, nine other launches and a possible UK newspaper tie-up. Read more at paidContent »
Huffington Post launches social streaming video network, HuffPost Live
AOL is hoping that the Huffington Posts’s new streaming video network, HuffPost Live, will set itself apart from competitors because of its focus on user participation, twelve hours of live programming daily from New York and LA, and a varied group of hosts. Read more at paidContent »
paidContent turns 10: A brief history of digital media
Remember when Friendster was the hot social network, publishers doubted that ebooks would ever sell, and Netflix thought DVDs in red envelopes was the future? We do — that was that state of digital media when paidContent launched in 2002. Read more »
Huffington: Smart experiment, or old-media mistake?
Huffington Post now looks less like a blog network and more like a traditional media entity, having launched its own weekly digital magazine for the iPad — but is launching a subscription app a smart way of branching out, or a sign of old-media thinking? Read more »
Emails reveal new details about Arianna’s role in HuffPo founding, ‘cover-up’ alleged
photo: AP Images
A series of emails between Arianna Huffington, her partners and the late conservative activist Andrew Breitbart shed new light about the early days of popular liberal news site Huffington Post. Read more at paidContent »
Does AOL need HuffPost more than HuffPost needs AOL?
Arianna Huffington says everything is fine at AOL and she doesn’t mind having her power reduced, but she also admits that private-equity firms have raised the idea of a spin-off of Huffington Post. Could this be the beginning of the end for the faded former portal? Read more »
Arianna Huffington’s billion-dollar Kickstarter idea
Does Arianna Huffington want to buy back the Huffington Post from AOL? Read more at paidContent »
The 2012 Pulitzers: The medium doesn’t matter
The Huffington Post won a Pulitzer Prize Monday, an important prize from a group that not too long ago thought the medium was the message — and has since learned that the work is the message. Read more at paidContent »
Tim Armstrong may have saved AOL, but at what cost?
Just over a year after AOL acquired the Huffington Post, much of the integration between the two is being unwound, and control over key elements of the business are reverting to founder Arianna Huffington. Should AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong be watching his back? Read more »
HuffPo Blog Formerly Known As Parentlode Will Now Be Called ‘Parentry’
It’s always tough to come up with a unique name for your offspring, but a little lawsuit sure can get the creative juices flowing. And so st… Read more at paidContent »
Where Does Arianna Fit Into AOL’s New Patch Plans?
AOL (NYSE: AOL) has hired a new Chief Content Officer in its latest attempt to reboot Patch, the network of hundreds of sites that offer “hy… Read more at paidContent »
How the Huffington Post became a new-media behemoth
In addition to some eye-popping figures for page views and unique visitors, the latest Huffington Post statistics show that if there’s one thing the site knows how to do, it’s how to get reader engagement that other news sites and publishers can only dream of. Read more »
Critics of HuffPo news “theft” are missing the point
photo: Flickr user Denise Chan
The Huffington Post is facing new accusations that its writers “steal” content from other media outlets by aggregating it. Not only are these charges argubly untrue, but content companies that complain about this kind of “over-aggregation” are missing the point about how news works now. Read more »
Another AOL Reorg: Dial-Up, Mobile And Web Services Report Directly To CFO
On the back of its latest executive appointments — a new head of sales, and a new head of HR — AOL (NYSE: AOL) is pressing on with more re… Read more at paidContent »
El Huffington Post: Arianna Goes To Spain With El Pais Partnership
photo: AP Images
The news aggregating behemoth Huffington Post is continuing its march into new markets: the next stop is Spain, where the site will partner… Read more at paidContent »
New York Times Sues HuffPo Over Mommy Issues
The Huffington Post not only poached the Gray Lady’s popular “Motherlode” columnist, it also had the chutzpah to name the upstart blog “Pare… Read more at paidContent »
Arianna Huffington’s Colorful Court History
photo: AP Images
Arianna Huffington’s current legal battle over the rights to the idea for the Huffington Post isn’t her first encounter with the court syste… Read more at paidContent »
Arianna Huffington Loses Ruling In Fight Over HuffPo Ownership
photo: AP Images
Two politicos who sued Arianna Huffington and her partner for stealing their idea for the Huffington Post will get to go forward after a New… Read more at paidContent »
Is HuffPo UK just young, or unambitious?
Arianna Huffington has made much of her ambitions to expand into Europe and beyond — but with just two weeks until the British version of the site launches, the evidence suggests it might not be as aggressive as its American parent. Read more »
Blogging for HuffPo Is Like Writing Open-Source Code
For anyone trying to understand why bloggers would give their content for free to a site like The Huffington Post — which is being sued by contributors for as much as $100 million — here’s a related question: Why do some programmers choose to create open-source software? Read more »
Arianna Huffington: Slave Owner or Crowdsourcing Pioneer?
Web 2.0 has grown up and is calling in the lawyers. A blogger for The Huffington Post has launched a class-action arguing that writers — who agreed to provide content without pay — should get a share of the $315 million it got from AOL. Read more »
Engadget Defection Exposes AOL’s Major Weakness
The mass defection of the Engadget staff to a site run by SB Nation does two things — reinforces how SB Nation could become a major player in the media space, and shines a spotlight on one of the major weaknesses in AOL’s growth plans. Read more »
Why Didn’t a Newspaper Create HuffPo?
photo: Flickr user George Kelly
In less than six years, Arianna Huffington and her team built a media operation second only to the New York Times in terms of traffic, and almost as valuable, while traditional news organizations have struggled to grow online. Why? Because they have too much to lose. Read more »
Can Arianna Help AOL Figure Out How Online Content Works?
Although it is far from a guaranteed win, AOL’s purchase of the Huffington Post makes a lot of sense for both sides. The latter gets the scale it couldn’t afford to build on its own, and AOL gets someone to take charge of its content strategy. Read more »
