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Huffington Post Debuts New York City Local Section

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 23, 2009 - 11:39am.
Los Angeles - Politics and culture blog The Huffington Post has launched a new section dedicated to New York City, which will feature New York-centric news articles plus bloggers posting on local topics. The company also partnered with existing local publications including the New York Observer, Gotham Gazette and Brooklyn Rail to syndicate coverage.

The Huffington Post Acquires Comedy News Site 236.com

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 14, 2009 - 10:07am.

New York - Politics and culture blog The Huffington Post has acquired comedy news site 236.com, and will be integrated as a new comedy section on the site.

Buzz Watch: Ariana Huffington Shares 4 Secrets Of Creating A Successful Blog

Authored by Rohit Bhargava on October 23, 2008 - 6:45am.

Huffington_2 Yesterday at the MarketingProfs event, Ariana Huffington took the stage for a keynote presentation sharing some lessons she has learned about building a successful blog network with the Huffington Post. Though she definitely ignored my advice to speakers about spending some time at an event to get to know the attendees (she was barely off the stage before heading out the door), she did share some interesting points in her talk that should be useful to most marketers:

Political Blog The Huffington Post Lands $5 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 26, 2007 - 7:39am.

Los Angeles - Influential news and politics blog The Huffington Post has raised $5 million in its second round of financing, from previous investors Softbank Capital, Greycroft Partners, Bob Pittman's Pilot Group and company CEO and co-founder Ken Lerer, PaidContent.org reported.

Huffington Post Allows Top Commenters To Become Bloggers

Authored by Scott Karp on August 17, 2007 - 7:36am.
Arianna HuffingtonThe Huffington Post has unveiled a new comment system that allows top commenters to become featured bloggers on the site. I interviewed Arianna Huffington about the new system — our Q&A appears below. First, a few thoughts on the idea of promoting commenters to bloggers. Every media company is experimenting with “user-generated content,” and comment-enabled content is now ubiquitous, but most media companies treat those “users” as an undifferentiated mass (as the distasteful term “user” implies) and the content they “generate” as one big bucket of “stuff.”