''HuffPost'' (formerly ''The Huffington Post'' until 2017 and sometimes abbreviated ''HuffPo'') is an American

progressive Progressive may refer to: Politics * Progressivism, a political philosophy in support of social reform ** Progressivism in the United States, the political philosophy in the American context * Progressive realism, an American foreign policy par ...

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

alternative to the

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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 o ...

. 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

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, audio, and photo. In 2012, the website became the first commercially run United States digital media enterprise to win a

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

. 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 chai ...

, 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 AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by the current incarnation of Yahoo (2017� ...

for US$315 million, making

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 i ...

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 in ...

. In November 2020,

BuzzFeed BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media. Based in New York City, BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson III to focus on tracking viral content. Ken ...

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

. It was founded by

, and

. 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 Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization in ...

opposing Clinton. An early ''Huffington Post'' strategy was crafting

search-engine optimized Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines. SEO targets unpaid traffic (known as "natural" or " organic" results) rather than direc ...

(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 exchan ...

from

SoftBank Capital SoftBank Capital is a venture capital group in the United States, focusing on technology and telecom early stage businesses. It was founded by SoftBank. Since 2015 it does not actively make investments, but it continues to oversee its prior portfo ...

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 Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years rese ...

, 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 SoftBank Capital is a venture capital group in the United States, focusing on technology and telecom early stage businesses. It was founded by SoftBank. Since 2015 it does not actively make investments, but it continues to oversee its prior portfo ...

, became CEO of ''The Huffington Post''. In January 2011, ''The Huffington Post'' received 35% of its traffic from

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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 the M ...

. This strategy appealed to AOL CEO

Tim Armstrong Timothy Ross Armstrong (born November 25, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and producer. Known for his distinctive voice, he is the singer/guitarist for the punk rock band Rancid and hip hop/punk rock supergroup Transplants. ...

, who tried to implement similar SEO-driven journalism practices at AOL at the time of its acquisition of ''The Huffington Post''. In March 2011,

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 editori ...

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 MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. MapQuest vies for market share with competitors such as Google Maps and Here. History MapQuest's ...

, Black Voices, PopEater (now HuffPost Celebrity),

AOL Music AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by the current incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. ...

, 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 Blackvoices.com is an American historical website. The entity appeared on the internet in 1995. According to Streetroachpics.com, Blackvoices.com first appeared as a link on the ''Orlando Sentinel'' website. Barry Cooper was the founder. Histo ...

, 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 is a ...

-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,

acquired AOL for US$4.4 billion and the site became a part of

. Huffington resigned to pursue other ventures and was succeeded as editor-in-chief by

Lydia Polgreen Lydia Frances Polgreen (born 1975) is an American journalist. She is best known for having been the editor-in-chief of ''HuffPost''. She also spent about one year between 2021 and 2022 as the head of content for Gimlet Media. Prior to that she wa ...

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.

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 CEO ...

. On November 19, 2020, it was announced that

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

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

'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

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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 and ...

'', the first edition in an Asian country. * On September 24, 2013, an Italian edition, ''L'Huffington Post'', was launched, directed by journalist

Lucia Annunziata Lucia Annunziata (Sarno, 8 August 1950) is an Italian journalist. Career Born in Sarno (in the Salerno province), at the age of 13 she moved to Salerno, where she attended high school and university, obtaining a degree in History and Philosoph ...

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 French became an international language in the Middle Ages, when the power of the Kingdom of France made it the second international language, alongside Latin. This status continued to grow into the 18th century, by which time French was the l ...

edition, launched for the

Maghreb French French language, French became an international language in the Middle Ages, when the power of the Kingdom of France made it the second Lingua franca, international language, alongside Latin. This status continued to grow into the 18th century, ...

area. On December 3, 2019, the

Maghreb The Maghreb (; ar, الْمَغْرِب, al-Maghrib, lit=the west), also known as the Arab Maghreb ( ar, المغرب العربي) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of North Africa and the Arab world. The region includes Algeria, ...

edition was closed. * On October 10, 2013,

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

-based ''Huffington Post Deutschland'' was launched in co-operation with the

liberal-conservative Liberal conservatism is a political ideology combining conservative policies with liberal stances, especially on economic issues but also on social and ethical matters, representing a brand of political conservatism strongly influenced by libe ...

magazine ''

Focus Focus, or its plural form foci may refer to: Arts * Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fringe arts festival in South Australia Film *''Focus'', a 1962 TV film starring James Whitmore * ''Focus'' (2001 film), a 2001 film based ...

'', covering

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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,

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 Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...

, Google CEO

Eric Schmidt Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and software engineer known for being the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, executive chairman of Google from 2011 to 2015, executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 20 ...

, 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 Grupo Abril (simply also known as Abril) is a Brazilian media conglomerate headquartered in São Paulo. The company is the holding company of Editora Abril, which publishes the weekly newsmagazine ''Veja.'' History and profile Victor Civita, an ...

, 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 Korean ( South Korean: , ''hangugeo''; North Korean: , ''chosŏnmal'') is the native language for about 80 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It is the official and national language of both North Korea and South Korea (geographic ...

edition was launched in

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

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 alternati ...

. * 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 Po ...

'', 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 Media24 is the print media division of the South African media company Naspers. It controls Naspers' newspaper and magazine Southern African publishing and printing activities, including Internet publishing of the 24.com collection of web portal ...

. 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 A contributor network (or contributor platform) is an arrangement in which an online publication releases articles authored by freelance writers, known as ''contributors'', who are not part of its staff. Depending on the program, contributors may ...

. 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 National Writers Union (NWU), founded on 19 November 1981, is the trade union in the United States for freelance and contract writers: journalists, book and short fiction authors, business and technical writers, web content providers and poets. ...

and

NewsGuild-CWA The NewsGuild-CWA is a labor union founded by newspaper journalists in 1933. In addition to improving wages and working conditions, its constitution says its purpose is to fight for honesty in journalism and the news industry's business practices ...

; 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 Prejudice can be an affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived group membership. The word is often used to refer to a preconceived (usually unfavourable) evaluation or classification of another person based on that person's per ...

by the court, holding that the bloggers had volunteered their services, their compensation being publication. In 2015,

Wil Wheaton Richard William Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor. He portrayed Wesley Crusher on the television series ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', Gordie Lachance in the film ''Stand by Me (film), Stand by Me'', Joey Trotta in '' ...

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 *

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...

on politics *

Robert Reich Robert Bernard Reich (; born June 24, 1946) is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He worked in the administrations of President of the United States, Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and served as United S ...

on politics *

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge Catherine, Princess of Wales, (born Catherine Elizabeth Middleton; 9 January 1982) is a member of the British royal family. She is married to William, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the British throne, making Catherine the likely next ...

on mental health issues. *

Harry Shearer Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943) is an American actor, comedian, writer, musician, radio host, director and producer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Shearer began his career as a child actor. From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member ...

on life issues *

Jeff Pollack Jeffrey Ian Pollack (November 15, 1959 – December 23, 2013) was an American film director, screenwriter, television producer and writer. As a film director he directed the films ''Above the Rim'' (1994), ''Booty Call'' (1997) and '' Lost ...

on music *

Roy Sekoff Roy Sekoff is the founding editor of ''The Huffington Post''. He was born and raised in Coral Gables, Florida. Before helping launch ''The Huffington Post'', he was a writer, producer, and on-air correspondent for Michael Moore’s Emmy-winning ' ...

on politics *

Craig Taro Gold Craig Taro Gold (born November 1969), known as Taro Gold, is an American author, entertainer, singer-songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is the author of several ''New York Times'' best-selling books including ''Open Your Mind, Open Your Life'' and ...

, spiritual author *

Jeff Halevy Jeff Halevy is an American author, public health advocate, and fitness contributor to various media outlets. He is the host of a cable television program '' Workout From Within with Jeff Halevy''. '' Workout From Within with Jeff Halevy'' and w ...

on health *

Cenk Uygur Cenk Kadir Uygur ( ; ; born March 21, 1970) is a Turkish-American progressive political commentator, media host, attorney, journalist, and politician. Uygur is the creator of ''The Young Turks'', an American left-wing, sociopolitical, progressi ...

Diane Ravitch Diane Silvers Ravitch (born July 1, 1938) is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Previously, she was a U.S. A ...

on education * Jacob M. Appel on ethics *

Howard Friedman Howard Steven Friedman (born June 10, 1972) is a prominent American statistician, data scientist, health economist, and writer who teaches at Columbia University Friedman is widely known for his role as a lead statistical modeler on a number of k ...

on statistics and politics *

Auren Hoffman Auren Raphael Hoffman (born 1974) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, author and CEO of SafeGraph, a firm that gathers location data from mobile devices and sells information about places and the movements of people. Personal life Hoffma ...

on business and politics *

Cara Santa Maria Cara Louise Santa Maria (born October 19, 1983) is an American science communicator. She hosts the podcast ''Talk Nerdy'' and co-hosts ''The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe'' podcast, and was a co-host of TechKnow on Al Jazeera America. Santa Ma ...

on science *

Nancy Rappaport Nancy Rappaport is an American board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist. She serves as an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is the attending child and adolescent psychiatrist at Cambridge Health Alliance a Ha ...

on child psychiatry * Iris Krasnow on marriage *

Anand Reddi Anand Reddi is a researcher and global health specialist. He is known for his scholarly work on U.S. Global Health Policy including the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). His basic science research focuses on the molecular mecha ...

publishes on

global health Global health is the health of the populations in the worldwide context; it has been defined as "the area of study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide". Problem ...

Radley Balko Radley Prescott Balko (born April 19, 1975) is an American journalist, author, blogger, and speaker who writes about criminal justice, the War on Drugs, drug war, and civil liberties. In 2022, he began publishing his work on Substack after being ...

on civil liberties and the criminal justice system *

Frances Beinecke Frances G. Beinecke (born August 2, 1949) is an environmental activist and politician. She served as the former president of the Natural Resources Defense Council from 2006 to 2015. Early life and education Beinecke is the youngest of four child ...

on climate change and the environment *

Jenna Busch Jennifer Anne "Jenna" Busch (born May 30, 1973) is an American entertainment journalist known for her work on sites like IGN, ''Huffington Post'', ''Coming Soon'', JoBlo, SheKnows, Collider, and ''Stan Lee's World of Heroes''. She is currently ...

on the entertainment industry *

Jerry Capeci Gerald Capeci () is an American journalist and author who specializes in coverage of the Five Mafia crime families of New York City. Capeci has been described by news organizations, such as CNN and BBC, as an expert on the American Mafia. ...

on the mafia *

Margaret Carlson Margaret Carlson is an American journalist, political pundit, and an opinion columnist for Bloomberg News. She is known for being the first female columnist for ''Time'' magazine. She was a regular panelist for CNN's '' Capital Gang'' from 1992 ...

on politics * Dominic Carter on politics *

Deepak Chopra Deepak Chopra (; ; born October 22, 1946) is an Indian-American author and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternati ...

on integrative medicine and personal transformation *

John Conyers John James Conyers Jr. (May 16, 1929October 27, 2019) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. representative from Michigan from 1965 to 2017. The districts he represented always included part of western Detroit. ...

(deceased) on politics *

Danielle Crittenden Danielle Crittenden (born April 20, 1963), is a Canadian-American author and journalist. 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 Laurie Ellen David (née Lennard; born March 22, 1958) is an American environmental activist, producer, and writer. She produced the Academy Award-winning ''An Inconvenient Truth'' (2006) and partnered with Katie Couric to executive produce ' ...

on environmental and food issues *

Andrea Doucet Andrea Doucet (born c.1960) is a Canadian social scientist and writer. She is professor of sociology and gender studies at Brock University, and holds the Canada Research Chair in gender, work and care. She was also the editor of the academic jour ...

on gender relations * Ryan Duffy on demographic trends *

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on gender relations *

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on defense *

Mitch Feierstein Mitchell B. Feierstein is a British-American investor, banker and writer. He has worked as a columnist for the Daily Mail and works as a columnist for The Independent and the Huffington Post. Feierstein appears regularly as a financial commentator ...

on the Federal Reserve *

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on law *

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on politics, media, and technology *

Michelle Fields Michelle Fields (born January 10, 1988) is an American political journalist who formerly wrote for ''The Huffington Post'', and was a reporter for ''Breitbart News'', as well as a Fox News contributor. After graduating from college, Fields was hi ...

on politics *

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on social media * Myriam François-Cerrah on France and the Middle East *

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on politics * Yvonne K. Fulbright on sexuality *

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on climate change and the environment *

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on issues important to teen girls *

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publishes cartoons *

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on Native Americans * Steve Gilliard on politics *

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on counterterrorism issues * David Goldstein on politics *

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on politics in a comedic taste *

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on politics *

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on foreign policy *

Katie Halper Katherine Rose Halper (born July 11, 1980/1981) is an American comedian, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, and political commentator. She is the host of the podcast ''The Katie Halper Show'' and co-host of the podcast ''Useful Idiots'' with Matt Tai ...

on politics * Thor Halvorssen on human rights *

Jane Hamsher Jane Hamsher (born Jane Murphy; July 25, 1959) is a US film producer, author, and blogger best known as the author of ''Killer Instinct'', a memoir about co-producing the 1994 movie ''Natural Born Killers'' with Don Murphy and others, and as the ...

on politics *

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on politics *

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on drugs and addiction *

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on politics and culture *

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on international law *

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on the Middle East *

on entrepreneurship *

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on politics *

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on the arts *

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on math art

Alternative medicine and anti-vaccination controversy

''HuffPost'' has been criticized for providing a platform for

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and supporters of

vaccine hesitancy Vaccine hesitancy is a delay in acceptance, or refusal, of vaccines despite the availability of vaccine services and supporting evidence. The term covers refusals to vaccinate, delaying vaccines, accepting vaccines but remaining uncertain abou ...

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, president of the

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, criticized ''The Huffington Post'' for allowing

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proponent Dana Ullman to have a blog on the site. In 2011, skeptic Brian Dunning listed it at No. 10 on his "Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Websites" list.

Anne Sinclair appointment to editorial director in France during Strauss-Kahn affair

In January 2012, ''The Huffington Post'' was criticized for naming as editorial director in France the well-known former TV journalist

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because she stood by her husband

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, former IMF head, when several women accused him of sexual assault. Commentators at ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

'' warned against potential conflict of interest in the French edition's news coverage.

Apology by the South African edition

In April 2017, ''HuffPost South Africa'' was directed by the press ombud to apologize unreservedly for publishing and later defending a column calling for disenfranchisement of white men which was declared malicious, inaccurate and discriminatory hate speech.

Jeffrey Epstein

In July 2019, ''HuffPost'' was criticized for publishing a story written by Rachel Wolfson, a publicist, that praised

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. Editors later removed the article at the author's request.

Political stance

''HuffPost'' has been seen as a mostly

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or liberal-leaning outlet, being described as such by the

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, and ''

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''. Upon becoming the editor-in-chief in December 2016,

said that the "wave of intolerance and bigotry that seems to be sweeping the globe" after the election of

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was remarkable and ''The Huffington Post'' has an "absolutely indispensable role to play in this era in human history." Commenting in 2012 on increased

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". According to Michael Steel, press secretary for

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Speaker of the House

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, Republican aides "engage with liberal websites like ''The Huffington Post'' nyway, if forno other reason than ecausethey drive a lot of cable coverage". Jon Bekken, journalism professor at

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, has cited it as an example of an " advocacy newspaper". ''

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'' editor

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referred to it as the "''Huffing and Puffington Post''". During the

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, ''HuffPost'' regularly appended an editor's note to the end of stories about candidate

, reading: "Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims—1.6 billion members of an entire religion—from entering the U.S." After Trump was elected on November 8, 2016, ''HuffPost'' ended this practice to "give respect to the office of the presidency."

Awards

* Won a

in 2012 in the category of national reporting for senior military correspondent David Wood's ''Beyond the Battlefield'', a 10-part series about wounded veterans. * 2010 "People's Voice" winner in the 14th

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. ''The Huffington Post'' lost the 2010 Webby Award jury prize for "Best Political Blog" to

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. *

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in 2010 for "Trafficked: A Youth Radio Investigation". * Named second among the "25 Best Blogs of 2009" by ''

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.'' * Won the 2006 and 2007

for "Best Politics Blog". * Contributor Bennet Kelley was awarded the Los Angeles Press Club's 2007 Southern California Journalism Award for Online Commentary for political commentary published on the site. * Ranked the most powerful blog in the world by ''

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'' in 2008. * Co-founder

ranked 12th in the 2009 list of the "Most Influential Women in Media" by ''

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''. She was ranked 42nd in the 2009 Top 100 in Media List by ''

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''. * Nominated in 2015 for the "Responsible Media of the Year" award at the

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