''HuffPost'' (formerly ''The Huffington Post'' until 2017 and sometimes abbreviated ''HuffPo'') is an American
progressive news website, with localized and international editions. The site offers news, satire, blogs, and original content, and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interests, and local news featuring columnists. It was created to provide a
progressive alternative to the
conservative
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news websites such as the
Drudge Report
The Drudge Report (stylized as DRUDGE REPORT) is a U.S.-based news aggregation website founded by Matt Drudge, and run with the help of Charles Hurt and Daniel Halper. The site was generally regarded as a conservative publication, though its ow ...
.
The site offers content posted directly on the site as well as
user-generated content
User-generated content (UGC), alternatively known as user-created content (UCC), is any form of content, such as images, videos, text, testimonials, and audio, that has been posted by users on online platforms such as social media, discussion f ...
via
video blogging
A video blog or video log, sometimes shortened to vlog (), is a form of blog for which the medium is video. Vlog entries often combine embedded video (or a video link) with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded i ...
, audio, and photo. In 2012, the website became the first commercially run United States digital media enterprise to win a
Pulitzer Prize.
Founded by
Andrew Breitbart
Andrew James Breitbart (; February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012) was an American conservative journalist, and political commentator who was the founder of ''Breitbart News'' and a co-founder of ''HuffPost''.
After helping in the early stages of '' ...
,
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (née Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, el, Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου ; born July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of '' Th ...
,
Kenneth Lerer
Kenneth Lerer is an American businessman and a media executive. He was the chairman and co-founder of ''The Huffington Post'', an American news website acquired by Aol in 2011. Lerer is also a managing director of Lerer Hippeau Ventures, and cha ...
, and
Jonah Peretti
Jonah H. Peretti (born January 1, 1974) is an Internet entrepreneur, a co-founder and the CEO of BuzzFeed, co-founder of ''The Huffington Post'', and developer of reblogging under the project "Reblog".
Education and early career
Peretti was b ...
,
the site was launched on May 9, 2005 as a counterpart to the Drudge Report. In March 2011, it was acquired by
AOL for US$315 million, making
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (née Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, el, Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου ; born July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of '' Th ...
editor-in-chief.
In June 2015,
Verizon Communications
Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in ...
acquired AOL for US$4.4 billion and the site became a part of
Verizon Media
Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas i ...
.
In November 2020,
BuzzFeed acquired the company.
Weeks after the acquisition, BuzzFeed
laid off
A layoff or downsizing is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees (collective layoff) for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing (reducing the ...
47 ''HuffPost'' staff in the U.S. (mostly journalists) and closed down ''HuffPost Canada'', laying off 23 staff working for the Canadian and Quebec divisions of the company.
History
''The Huffington Post'' was launched on May 9, 2005, as a commentary outlet, blog, and an alternative to news aggregators such as the
Drudge Report
The Drudge Report (stylized as DRUDGE REPORT) is a U.S.-based news aggregation website founded by Matt Drudge, and run with the help of Charles Hurt and Daniel Halper. The site was generally regarded as a conservative publication, though its ow ...
.
It was founded by
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (née Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, el, Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου ; born July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of '' Th ...
,
Andrew Breitbart
Andrew James Breitbart (; February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012) was an American conservative journalist, and political commentator who was the founder of ''Breitbart News'' and a co-founder of ''HuffPost''.
After helping in the early stages of '' ...
,
Kenneth Lerer
Kenneth Lerer is an American businessman and a media executive. He was the chairman and co-founder of ''The Huffington Post'', an American news website acquired by Aol in 2011. Lerer is also a managing director of Lerer Hippeau Ventures, and cha ...
, and
Jonah Peretti
Jonah H. Peretti (born January 1, 1974) is an Internet entrepreneur, a co-founder and the CEO of BuzzFeed, co-founder of ''The Huffington Post'', and developer of reblogging under the project "Reblog".
Education and early career
Peretti was b ...
.
Prior to this, Arianna Huffington hosted the website Ariannaonline.com. Her first foray into the Internet was the website Resignation.com, which called for the resignation of President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
and was a rallying place for
conservatives
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opposing Clinton.
An early ''Huffington Post'' strategy was crafting
search-engine optimized (SEO) stories and headlines based around
trending keywords, such as "What Time Is the Super Bowl?"
In August 2006, ''The Huffington Post'' raised a $5 million
Series A round
A series A round (also known as series A financing or series A investment) is the name typically given to a company's first significant round of venture capital financing. The name refers to the class of preferred stock sold to investors in exch ...
from
SoftBank Capital
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and
Greycroft
Greycroft is an American venture capital firm. It manages over $2 billion in capital with investments in companies such as Bird, Bumble, HuffPost, Goop, Scopely, The RealReal, and Venmo. Greycroft was founded in 2006 by Alan Patricof, Dana Sett ...
.
In December 2008, ''The Huffington Post'' raised $25 million from
Oak Investment Partners
Oak Investment Partners is a private equity firm focusing on venture capital investments in companies developing communications systems, information technology, new Internet media, healthcare services and retail.
History
The firm, founded in 19 ...
at a $100 million valuation and
Fred Harman
Fred Charles Harman II (February 9, 1902 - January 2, 1982) was an American cartoonist, best known for his popular ''Red Ryder'' comic strip, which he drew for 25 years, reaching 40 million readers through 750 newspapers. Harman sometimes used th ...
of Oak Investment Partners joined its board of directors. The money was to be used for technology, infrastructure,
investigative journalism
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, and development of local versions.
In June 2009,
Eric Hippeau
Eric Hippeau is a partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures in New York City.
Early life and education
Hippeau graduated from the Lycee Francais de Londres and attended the Sorbonne University in Paris.
Career
Hippeau joined Ziff-Davis in 1989 as pub ...
, co-managing partner of
Softbank Capital
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, became CEO of ''The Huffington Post''.
In January 2011, ''The Huffington Post'' received 35% of its traffic from
web search engine
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s, compared to 20% at
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
.
This strategy appealed to AOL CEO
Tim Armstrong
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, who tried to implement similar SEO-driven journalism practices at AOL at the time of its acquisition of ''The Huffington Post''.
[
In March 2011, AOL acquired ''The Huffington Post'' for 315 million. As part of the deal, Huffington became president and editor-in-chief of ''The Huffington Post'' and existing AOL properties ]Engadget
''Engadget'' ( ) is a multilingual technology blog network with daily coverage of gadgets and consumer electronics. ''Engadget'' manages ten blogs four of which are written in English and six have international versions with independent editor ...
, TechCrunch
TechCrunch is an American online newspaper focusing on high tech and startup companies. It was founded in June 2005 by Archimedes Ventures, led by partners Michael Arrington and Keith Teare.
In 2010, AOL acquired the company for approximately $ ...
, Moviefone
Moviefone is an American-based moving pictures listing and information service. Moviegoers can obtain local showtimes, cinema information, film reviews, and advance tickets, as well as TV content and a comprehensive search tool that allows users ...
, MapQuest
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History
MapQuest's ...
, Black Voices, PopEater (now HuffPost Celebrity), AOL Music
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, AOL Latino (now ''HuffPost Voices''), AutoBlog, Patch, and StyleList.[
''The Huffington Post'' subsumed many of AOL's ''Voices'' properties, including ''AOL Black Voices'', which was established in 1995 as Blackvoices.com, and ''AOL Latino'', ''Impact'' (launched in 2010 as a partnership between ''Huffington Post'' and ]Causecast
Causecast was a pro-social software company, founded in 2007 and based in Los Angeles. The company provided an online platform that helped businesses and organizations manage community giving, employee volunteering, donations, matching, rewarding ...
), ''Women'', ''Teen'', ''College'', ''Religion'', and the Spanish-language ''Voces (en español)''. The ''Voices'' brand was expanded in September 2011 with the launch of ''Gay Voices'', dedicated to LGBT
' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity.
The LGBT term ...
-relevant articles.
By late 2013, the website operated as a "stand-alone business" within AOL, taking control of more of its own business and advertising operations, and directing more effort towards securing "premium advertising".
In June 2015, Verizon Communications
Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in ...
acquired AOL for US$4.4 billion and the site became a part of Verizon Media
Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas i ...
.[
Huffington resigned to pursue other ventures and was succeeded as editor-in-chief by Lydia Polgreen in December 2016.][
In April 2017, Polgreen announced the company would rebrand, changing its official full name to ''HuffPost'', with changes also to the design of its website and logo and content and reporting.
On January 24, 2019, 20 employees were laid off as a part of Verizon Media laying off 7% of its staff. The opinion and health sections were eliminated. Pulitzer Prize finalist Jason Cherkis lost his job.
On March 6, 2020, Polgreen announced that she would step down as editor-in-chief to become the head of content at ]Gimlet Media
Gimlet Media LLC is a digital media company and podcast network, focused on producing narrative podcasts and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. The company was founded in 2014 by Alex Blumberg and Matthew Lieber, who serve as the company's CE ...
.
On November 19, 2020, it was announced that BuzzFeed had agreed to acquire ''HuffPost'' from Verizon Media in a stock deal. Later in November 2020, HuffPost shut down its India operation after six years. According to some media reports, the acquisition did not include the India site due to regulations barring foreign ownership of Indian Digital Media.
On February 16, 2021, BuzzFeed's acquisition of ''HuffPost'' officially closed. On March 9, 2021, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti
Jonah H. Peretti (born January 1, 1974) is an Internet entrepreneur, a co-founder and the CEO of BuzzFeed, co-founder of ''The Huffington Post'', and developer of reblogging under the project "Reblog".
Education and early career
Peretti was b ...
said that the company had lost "around $20 million" during the previous year. The same day, it was announced that ''HuffPost Canada'' would be shut down and immediately ceased publishing.
On April 12, 2021, Danielle Belton became editor-in-chief.
Local editions
* In spring 2007, the first local version, ''HuffPost Chicago'', was launched.
* In June 2009, ''HuffPost New York'' was launched.
* ''HuffPost Denver'' launched on September 15, 2009.
* ''HuffPost Los Angeles'' launched on December 2, 2009.
* ''HuffPost San Francisco'' launched on July 12, 2011.
* ''HuffPost Detroit'' launched on November 17, 2011
* ''HuffPost Miami'' launched in November 2011.
* ''HuffPost Hawaii'' was launched in collaboration with the online investigative reporting and public affairs news service Honolulu Civil Beat on September 4, 2013.
International editions
* On May 26, 2011, ''HuffPost Canada'', the first international edition, was launched. Following BuzzFeed's acquisition of HuffPost, it was announced on March 9, 2021, that ''HuffPost Canada'' would stop publishing content and cease operations the following week as part of a broader restructuring plan for the company.
* On July 6, 2011, ''Huffington Post UK'' was launched.
* On January 23, 2012, ''The Huffington Post'', in partnership with ''Le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...
'' and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendantes, launched ''Le Huffington Post'', a French-language edition and the first in a non-English speaking country.
* On February 8, 2012, another French language edition was launched in Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
.
* On May 1, 2012, a U.S.-based Spanish-language edition was launched under the name ''HuffPost Voces'', replacing AOL Latino.
* In June 2012, the edition for Spain, ElHuffPost, was launched.
* On May 6, 2013, an edition for Japan was launched with the collaboration of ''Asahi Shimbun
is one of the four largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. Its circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition a ...
'', the first edition in an Asian country.
* On September 24, 2013, an Italian edition, ''L'Huffington Post'', was launched, directed by journalist Lucia Annunziata in collaboration with the media company Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso
GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A., formerly known as Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso S.p.A. is an Italian media conglomerate. Founded in 1955, it is based in Turin, Italy.
History
In 2009, the group L'Espresso created an online advertising consortium ...
.
* In June 2013, ''Al Huffington Post'', the third francophone edition, launched for the Maghreb French
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area. On December 3, 2019, the Maghreb
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edition was closed.
* On October 10, 2013, Munich
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-based ''Huffington Post Deutschland'' was launched in co-operation with the liberal-conservative
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magazine ''Focus
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*''Focus'', a 1962 TV film starring James Whitmore
* ''Focus'' (2001 film), a 2001 film based ...
'', covering German-speaking Europe
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. On January 11, 2018, it was announced that the German language edition would shut down on March 31, 2018.
* In January 2014, Arianna Huffington
Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (née Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, el, Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου ; born July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of '' Th ...
and Nicolas Berggruen
Nicolas Berggruen (; born 10 August 1961) is a US-based billionaire investor and philanthropist. Born in Paris, France, he is a dual American and German citizen.Jeremy Kahn (October 25, 2011)''Bloomberg'' He is the founder and president of Berggru ...
announced the launch of the ''WorldPost'', created in partnership with the Berggruen Institute
The Berggruen Institute is a Los Angeles-based think tank founded by Nicolas Berggruen.
History
In 2010, Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels sat down with a group of academics, business leaders, and political veterans in California to discus ...
. Its contributors have included former British prime minister Tony Blair
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, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, novelist Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel '' The Corrections'', a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Pr ...
, and musician Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma ('' Chinese'': 馬友友 ''Ma Yo Yo''; born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born in Paris to Chinese parents and educated in New York City, he was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from ...
.
* On January 29, 2014, the Brazilian version was launched as ''Brasil Post'', in partnership with Grupo Abril
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History and profile
Victor Civita, a ...
, the first in Latin America. Brasil Post was later renamed ''Huffington Post Brasil'' in 2015, then ''HuffPost Brasil''. In November 2020, the edition was closed down following BuzzFeed's acquisition.
* In February 2014, a Korean language
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edition was launched in South Korea
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in partnership with the local center-left newspaper ''The Hankyoreh
''The Hankyoreh'' (, literally "The Korean Nation" or "One Nation") is a centre-left liberal daily newspaper in South Korea. It was established in 1988 after widespread purges forced out dissident journalists, and was envisioned as an alternat ...
.
* In September 2014, planned launches were announced for sites for Greece, India, as well ''HuffPost Arabi
Arabic Post (Arabic: عربي بوست), formerly known as HuffPost Arabi (Arabic: عربي HuffPost) was an Arabic-language news web site founded by Wadah Khanfar, the former CEO of Al Jazeera Media Network in partnership with ''The Huffington P ...
'', an Arabic version of the website.
* On August 18, 2015, ''HuffPost Australia'' was launched.
* On November 21, 2016, ''HuffPost South Africa'', the brand's first sub-Saharan edition, was launched in partnership with Media24
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.[ The South African edition stopped when the partnership with Media24 ended in 2018.]
Criticism and controversy
Unpaid bloggers
The site originally published work from both paid reporters and unpaid bloggers through its contributor platform.
In February 2011, Visual Art Source, which had been cross-posting material from its website, went on strike against ''The Huffington Post'' to protest its writers not being paid. In March 2011, the strike and the call to boycott was joined and endorsed by the National Writers Union and NewsGuild-CWA
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; however, the boycott was dropped in October 2011.
In April 2011, ''The Huffington Post'' was targeted with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by Jonathan Tasini
Jonathan Bernard Yoav Tasini (born October 18, 1956) is an American political strategist, organizer, activist, commentator and writer, primarily focusing his energies on the topics of work, labor and the economy. On June 11, 2009, he announced th ...
on behalf of thousands of uncompensated bloggers. On March 30, 2012, the suit was dismissed with prejudice
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by the court, holding that the bloggers had volunteered their services, their compensation being publication.
In 2015, Wil Wheaton
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stated that he refused to allow his work to be reused for free on the site.
The practice of publishing blog posts from unpaid contributors ended in January 2018. This transformed the site, which had become notable for featuring extensive sections in a broad range of subjects from a significant number of contributors. Some of the contributors included:
* Adrienne Wu on gender, and species, identity
* Arianna Huffington
Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (née Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, el, Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου ; born July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of '' Th ...
* Barack Obama
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on politics
* Robert Reich
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on politics
* Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
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on mental health issues.
* Harry Shearer
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on life issues
* Jeff Pollack on music
* Roy Sekoff on politics
* Craig Taro Gold
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, spiritual author
* Jeff Halevy on health
* Cenk Uygur
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* Diane Ravitch
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on education
* Jacob M. Appel on ethics
* Howard Friedman
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Friedman is widely known for his role as a lead statistical modeler on a number of k ...
on statistics and politics
* Auren Hoffman
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Personal life
Hoffma ...
on business and politics
* Cara Santa Maria
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Santa M ...
on science
* Nancy Rappaport on child psychiatry
* Iris Krasnow on marriage
* Anand Reddi
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publishes on global health
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* Radley Balko
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on civil liberties and the criminal justice system
* Frances Beinecke
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Early life and education
Beinecke is the youngest of four child ...
on climate change and the environment
* Jenna Busch
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on the entertainment industry
* Jerry Capeci
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* Margaret Carlson
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on politics
* Dominic Carter on politics
* Deepak Chopra on integrative medicine and personal transformation
* John Conyers (deceased) on politics
* Danielle Crittenden
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Career
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she is the daughter of Max Crittenden, a former editor with the ''Toronto Telegram'', and journalist and book critic Yvon ...
on Jewish lifestyle
* Laurie David
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on environmental and food issues
* Andrea Doucet
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on gender relations
* Ryan Duffy on demographic trends
* Maddy Dychtwald
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Anne Sinclair appointment to editorial director in France during Strauss-Kahn affair
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, former IMF head, when several women accused him of sexual assault. Commentators at '' l'Express'', ''Rue89
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Apology by the South African edition
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Jeffrey Epstein
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. Editors later removed the article at the author's request.
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said that the "wave of intolerance and bigotry that seems to be sweeping the globe" after the election of
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engagement on the website despite its reputation as a liberal news source, ''The Huffington Post'' founder
stated that her website is "increasingly seen" as an Internet newspaper that is "not positioned ideologically in terms of how we cover the news".
they drive a lot of cable coverage".