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Loading Comments Email Name Website. 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.
The downside to training an armada of young writers to aggregate news stories and capitalize on search traffic is that it is hard to pivot. The HuffPost was being overtaken by other sites that had foreseen the change in strategy, such as BuzzFeed, which was born out of its own skunkworks system, in large part through the tinkering of Jonah Peretti, a HuffPost co-founder. Meanwhile, the HuffPost—an omnibus of sorts, with seemingly countless verticals and topic areas—began to look like an outlier in a digital landscape increasingly populated by more specialized sites.
Life on the Internet can be cruel, indeed. There were serious doubts about how long Huffington would last at Verizon. Walden went out of her way to praise Armstrong. One year later, Huffington would be gone. William D. Cohan reveals one of the factors that may have contributed to her departure: a capricious management style that alienated many of the journalists who worked for her.
By William D. In a searing investigation into the once lauded biotech start-up Theranos, Nick Bilton discovers that its precocious founder defied medical experts—even her own chief scientist—about the veracity of its now discredited blood-testing technology.
As of August , the Huffington Post was the th most-visited website with approximately 75 million unique visitors per month. HuffPost does not edit or censor celebrity-written articles. Throughout its history the Huffington Post has depended on free labor from fellows, interns, and bloggers.
The lawsuit alleged that thousands of writers and other contributors were wrongly denied any compensation for the value they created for the Huffington Post. Separately the 26, member Newspaper Guild, a labor union affiliated with the Communications Workers of America that represents journalists, called for a strike against Huffington Post. As of early , HuffPost has never released a diversity report, [48] despite having a whole section of their website dedicated to increasing and expanding diversity.
From to , a number of HuffPost contributors who authored articles claiming that there was a link between childhood vaccinations and autism.
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