Who is behind huffington post

He was 26 years old and had no previous journalism experience. In fact, after a rough two-year stint in charge of the newsroom, Soni left the Huffington Post amid allegations that he had aggressively approached a number of young women in the Editorial Fellows program for dates. Two of them reportedly brought a complaint to the editor overseeing them and AOL began an internal investigation. Reached by phone, Soni, with whom I serve on a board at Duke, our mutual alma mater, declined to comment about the allegations.

Back in New York, she called a large group of editors and writers into her office. This is going to change the way people do journalism, change the way journalism works in the world. Jaws dropped. Peck was not demoted, according to another person who was present at the meeting, but did choose to bow out of editorial duties and went back to being a reporter. Huffington, it seems, had not been included in any of the negotiations.

When the deal was announced on May 12, she was on a flight to Seattle, to attend the Microsoft C. She used the five-hour flight as an opportunity to unplug. The ink was barely dry on the deal before financial reporters at Fortune and Recode were speculating that Huffington would want to see the Huffington Post spun off from Verizon and sold to a new buyer.

After all, Verizon was buying AOL for its ability to create video content for an array of mobile devices and for its capacity to place digital advertising—not really for the editorial content found on the likes of the Huffington Post. A decade into its life—a veritable century in the Digital Age—the Huffington Post was being treated not as a high-quality news source but as another Web site for click-bait infotainment.

Adding to the intrigue was the fact that she had not yet signed a new contract, theoretically making it easier for her to join forces with a buyer to pry her business loose from Verizon. The Huffington Post sale talk died down quickly.

Huffington spun the news positively. In reality, however, while Huffington had been pouring resources into expensive ventures that failed to catch on and steering her newsroom uncertainly between serious journalism and mass-produced aggregation, the Huffington Post had missed the great shift from audience development based on search-engine optimization to an equal dependence on social media. Self-care and wellness applications on smartphones have been booming.

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She created digital tools where people could follow and respond to their own habits. What are its chances of profitability and sustainability going forward? Arianna Huffington, married and living in Washington, begins writing a nationally syndicated political column for newspapers. She begins posting blogs on her website, a new phenomenon in the late s.

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As the website has grown, it has hired a group of its own reporters, columnists and investigative journalists to produce original journalism in addition to the items it aggregates. All Sections.