Serial charmer and conservative turncoat Arianna Huffington reinvents herself yet again—as self-help guru and queen of connectedness.
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The Oracle: The Many Lives of Arianna Huffington
Dish is her capital—the means by which she makes connections and maintains them. Because she defines the agenda for the Huffington Post, which defines the agenda for so many readers, passing a tidbit her way is, in a sense, an investment. Proprietary hints are the dividend. “She knows the best of everything, from the best […]
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Blank Slate: Jacob Weisberg Doesn’t Much Care for What Works on the Internet. Can Slate recover?
The site’s internal numbers show that page views for October were up just 6 percent, to 83.6 million, and unique visitors were down 21 percent — growing pains as the site weans itself from longtime traffic teat MSN.com and develops its own, more clicky readers. Over the same time period, Gawker has more than doubled […]
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The Puffington Host
The many versions of Arianna Huffington, and their consequences.
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The Education of President Obama
If there was something incongruous about the president of the United States checking out reviews of his décor by Arianna Huffington, well, let’s face it, he has endured worse reviews lately.
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The New Gawker Media
The New Gawker Media The problem with Gawker Media’s current model—and this is true of many other sites, too, including the Huffington Post—is that it’s based on pageviews and those tyrannical CPMs. It’s essentially a junk-mail direct marketing model, which Batty is very comfortable with: watch him talk about how Gawker Media has “massively scaled […]
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The New Gawker Media
The New Gawker Media The problem with Gawker Media’s current model—and this is true of many other sites, too, including the Huffington Post—is that it’s based on pageviews and those tyrannical CPMs. It’s essentially a junk-mail direct marketing model, which Batty is very comfortable with: watch him talk about how Gawker Media has “massively scaled […]
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#Longreads #List: Stories on Arianna Huffington and the Huffington Post
#Longreads #List: Stories on Arianna Huffington and the Huffington Post
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Featured Longreader: Ron Nurwisah, news editor for The Huffington Post Canada. See his story picks from The Dependent Magazine, Maisonneuve Magazine, plus more on his #longreads page.
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Inside the social media factory created by former Huffington Post cofounder Jonah Peretti—how they’ve cracked viral content, invested in original content, and made money: At around 5 p.m., Stopera published ‘48 Pictures That Perfectly Capture the ’90s’ on BuzzFeed. ‘These pictures are all that and a bag of chips!’ he wrote at the top of […]
