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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 23, 2012 5:03 AM
Huffington Post today took one more step in its ongoing march for a wider international reach: it has now officially opened Le Huffington Post for business. This is not the first non-U.S. edition of the news site, but it is the first to produce the content in partnership with an…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 12, 2011 7:37 AM
The news aggregating behemoth Huffington Post is continuing its march into new markets: the next stop is Spain, where the site will partner with respected national daily El Pais to produce a local edition.
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Jeff Roberts
Oct 29, 2011 10:22 AM
Arianna Huffington’s current legal battle over the rights to the idea for the Huffington Post isn’t her first encounter with the court system. Of course, anyone who makes it big in America gets sued at least once or twice along the way. But the Greek emigre’s legal tangles are a…
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Jeff Roberts
Oct 26, 2011 4:50 PM
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 York judge refused to throw out the lawsuit.
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Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 25, 2011 9:07 AM
This month, Lisa Belkin announced that she was leaving her popular parenting blog at the New York Times, Motherlode, to launch a parenting blog at the Huffington Post. The name of the new Huffington Post blog is Parentlode, and the NYT is not happy.
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Laura Hazard Owen
Sep 7, 2011 4:45 PM
The AOL (NYSE: AOL) Huffington Post Media Group is the latest news organization to become an e-book publisher. The site will release two titles this month. The first, Arthur Delaney’s A People’s History of the Great Recession, is available now. The second, Aaron Belkin’s How We Won: Progressive Lessons from…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jul 11, 2011 1:30 PM
If you can’t manage the art of aggregation, stick to the science. Aggregation has been part of our coverage mix at paidContent from the beginning. Done right, it’s a valuable tool that helps readers and benefits the original source. Done wrong, it’s at best, a mess and at worst, theft.…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 5, 2011 5:38 PM
Today, Arianna Huffington’s online news phenomenon The Huffington Post is making its European debut, with the launch of Huffington Post UK, the third site in what AOL (NYSE: AOL) hopes will become a rapidly-growing franchise by the end of this year. The launch of HuffPo UK has come with impeccable,…
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Joe Mullin
Jun 13, 2011 3:13 PM
Jonathan Tasini has added 30 pages of material to his lawsuit against The Huffington Post demanding compensation for unpaid bloggers. But even after taking two more months to gather evidence, Tasini and his lawyers don’t reveal any kind of “smoking gun” that might change their odds of winning this legal…
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Joe Mullin
May 27, 2011 4:30 PM
Lawyers for The Huffington Post have moved to dismiss Jonathan Tasini’s novel lawsuit claiming that the popular internet newspaper actually owes money to its unpaid bloggers. Tasini got exactly what he was looking for from his free blogging, HuffPo lawyers argue—exposure—and his lawsuit insisting on payment must be thrown out.
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Joe Mullin
May 25, 2011 2:32 PM
The class-action lawsuit filed by Jonathan Tasini isn’t the only questionable legal claim that The Huffington Post is fighting off right now. Last year—that is, six years after The Huffington Post was founded, two Democratic political consultants, Peter Daou and James Boyce, filed a lawsuit saying that The Huffington Post…
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Staci D. Kramer
May 5, 2011 4:41 PM
*AOL* News, consistently among the top news sites, is making way for The Huffington Post, a victim of the $315 million acquisition of the younger site. It’s confusing enough right now for those used to going to the site (no matter how much HuffPo plays it down, it did have…
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Joe Mullin
Apr 14, 2011 11:23 PM
There’s been plenty of discussion of Jonathan Tasini’s recent lawsuit against The Huffington Post and AOL (NYSE: AOL), much of it critical. When Arianna Huffington replied late yesterday, saying that the suit was nonsense and that the vast majority of HuffPo’s bloggers “are thrilled to contribute,” she had no shortage…
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Joe Mullin
Apr 12, 2011 12:51 PM
Jonathan Tasini’s name will always have a place in the history of media law because of his role in one of the most famous digital-age media lawsuits, Tasini v. New York Times. Now it looks like Tasini’s going for a second entry in the history books. Today, Tasini became the…
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David Kaplan
Apr 7, 2011 4:11 PM
Life is pretty good at AOL (NYSE: AOL) these days, including the use of three “resting rooms” that the newsroom has dubbed “NapQuest,” Arianna Huffington told AdAge‘s Ed Lee at the close of the AdAge Digital conference. It sounds like staffers will need it, as AOL wants to put more…
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David Kaplan
Mar 10, 2011 7:01 PM
AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong warned that layoffs would be coming last week, and today, the pink slips were released. Armstrong spoke about the decision during a Q&A keynote session this morning at the Bloomberg Businessweek Media Summit. In a separate interview with paidContent when he left the conference,…
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David Kaplan
Mar 10, 2011 8:52 AM
Update: CEO Tim Armstrong’s full memo to staffers. AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong took the stage at Bloomberg Media Summit and confirmed last night’s big news: the company is cutting 900 jobs; in India, 400 people were laid off and 300 jobs were outsourced and in the U.S., 200…
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Staci D. Kramer
Mar 9, 2011 11:05 PM
Last week, AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong told the crowd at paidContent 2011 that layoffs—aka “job changes”—were coming following the $315 million deal to acquire the Huffington Post. The layoffs started Thursday in India, where AOL’s operations are being dramatically downsized: 400 jobs lost, 300 outsourced, roughly 200 remaining,…
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Staci D. Kramer
Mar 7, 2011 7:47 AM
AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong said from the stage at paidContent 2011 that the company was within days of closing its $315 million deal to acquire The Huffington Post and the official word came this morning via a terse SEC filing—and a celebratory announcement that the new Huffington Post…
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David Kaplan
Mar 3, 2011 5:28 PM
The $315 million AOL/Huffington Post merger could close next week, said CEO Tim Armstrong, seated next to his new partner Arianna Huffington and Staci D. Kramer, editor & EVP, ContentNext/paidContent in the closing session of the paidContent 2011. Armstrong began by talking about the many firsts they’ve shared: Huffington’s first…
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