Investigative journalism, one of the casualties of shrinking newsroom budgets, is getting some help from an unlikely source: The Huffington Post, an internet darling known for links and commentary, not in-depth reporting. The HuffPo, along with The Atlantic Philanthropies and other unnamed donors, is launching a $1.75 million fund to…

Huffington Post is wasting little time in putting last month’s $25 million funding to work: as expected, the company says it’s buying comedy news site 236.com. The comedy site was created in Nov. 2007 as part of a joint venture between Huffington Post and IAC (NSDQ: IACI). Now, after a…

After weeks of denials and “no comments,” political blog The Huffington Post has closed a $25 million third round funding from Oak Investment Partners, the company said in an e-mailed press release this morning. We reported earlier about a $20 million and above round with post-money valuation in the $110…

Update 2: Nov 23, 11:25 AM PST: As we mentioned in the post below, the round hasn’t yet closed completely, and the company is looking to close it $20 million, and that may mean besides Oak and previous investors, some other investor might be coming in. And the valuation is…

As one of the more engaging elections in recent years enters the final stretch, the Huffington Post is riding a wave of political influence and enviable growth. But will that all go away after the election? It’s a question that haunts CEO Betsy Morgan, and we raised it again today…

HuffingtonPost.com and Politico.com, two sites that didn’t exist in the last presidential election, lead the list of most-trafficked sites in the standalone political sites and blogs category, according to numbers released by *Comscore*. HuffPo has 4.5 million visitors in September, up 472 percent versus year ago, while Politico.com attracted 2.4…

She said it…in a short interview with Portfolio.com at Denver convention. Update: LAT does a rather snarky profile of HuffPo, and mentions that another infusion of capital, $10 million to $20 million, is in the works to hire more reporters and editors and upgrade the site’s technology. We had known…

Some rumor busting and rumor testing: —Dow Jones’ (NYSE: NWS) M&A team was in China last week, our sources says. What were they doing? Some sources say they were looking at ChinaWeb, the parent company of Chinese financial information portal Hexun. DJ was looking at it last year as well,…

So says this long and ponderous profile story on the future of newspapers in The New Yorker, drawing comparisons of HuffingtonPost being the new incarnation of the American newspaper, online. On HuffPo, the story says the site has about $11 million at its disposal (that’s the amount it has raised…

HuffingtonPost co-founder and business head Ken Lerer is stepping down from his current responsibilities, paidContent.org has learned, and a new CEO announcement should be coming as soon as tomorrow. Lerer, a former EVP at AOL (NYSE: TWX) Time Warner, never really had a formal title at the start-up but was…

HuffingtonPost, the uber-blog, has quietly raised another $5 million in a second institutional round of funding. The round included all previous investors: Softbank Capital, Greycroft Partners, CEO and co-founder Ken Lerer and Bob Pittman‘s Pilot Group personally (not through his fund, but personal investment). Earlier this evening USAT published a…