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 The Huffington Post (sometimes Huff Post) is an American news website, content aggregator and blog founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, Andrew Breitbart[2][3] and Jonah Peretti, featuring columnists and various news sources.[4] The site offers news, blogs, and original content and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interests and local news.
The Huffington Post was launched on May 9, 2005 as a liberal/left commentary outlet and alternative to news aggregators such as the Drudge Report.On February 7, 2011, AOL acquired the mass market[9] Huffington Post for US$315 million, making Arianna Huffington editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group In 2012, The Huffington Post became the first commercially run, United States digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize.

History

The Huffington Post was founded by Arianna Huffington in May 2005 and launched a few days later on May 9. It has an active community, with over one million comments made on the site each month. Prior to The Huffington Post, Huffington hosted a website called Ariannaonline.com. Her first foray into the Internet was a website called Resignation.com which called for the resignation of President Bill Clinton and was a rallying place for conservatives opposing Clinton.Local and international editions

Local and international editions

In 2008, the site launched its first local version, HuffPost Chicago;[17] HuffPost New York[18] launched in June, 2009, HuffPost Denver[19] launched on September 15, 2009,[20] HuffPost Los Angeles[21] launched on December 2, 2009,[22] HuffPost San Francisco launched on July 12, 2011,[23] HuffPost Detroit,[24] launched on November 17, 2011,[25] and The most recent, HuffPost Miami, launched in November 2011.The Huffington Post launched its first international edition, HuffPost Canada,[27] on May 26, 2011.[28] On the July 6, 2011 the Huffington Post UK[29] launched its UK edition.[30] On October 10, 2011, Huffington announced a deal with Le Monde and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendantes for a French language, France-targeted edition, Le Huffington Post,[31][32] to be launched by the end of 2011. On February 8, 2012, another French language edition was launched in the Canadian province of Quebec.[33] On May Day, a US-based Spanish-language edition launched under the name HuffPost Voces,[34] replacing AOL's Hispanic news platform, AOL Latino. The following month an edition for Spain was announced, as well as one for Germany.[35] On September 24, 2012, an Italian edition was launched, directed by journalist Lucia Annunziata in collaboration with L'espresso group Contributors
In addition to columns by Arianna Huffington and a core group of contributors such as John Conyers, Harry Shearer, Jeff Pollack, and Roy Sekoff, The Huffington Post has many bloggers—from politicians and celebrities to academics and policy experts—who contribute on a wide range of topics. Specialist bloggers include health expert Jeff HalevyCelebrities are allowed to post blogs on the site, and a number have opted to do so over the years. In many cases, such as that of Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, content is cross-posted among multiple sites
The site also publishes columns by specialists in a wide range of fields such as Cenk Uygur, Anand Reddi on global health issues, Alice Waters on food, Harold Katz on dental health, Suzie Heumann on sex, Diane Ravitch on education, Frances Beinecke on climate change and the environment, Jacob M. Appel on ethics, Howard Steven Friedman on statistics and politics, Auren Hoffman on business and politics, Jon LaPook on medicine, Cara Santa Maria on science, and Iris Krasnow on marriage. It publishes scoops of current news stories and links to selected prominent news stories
The Huffington Post's OffTheBus is a citizen-powered online news organization that is a collaboration between The Huffington Post, New York University (NYU), and Jay Rosen's NewAssignment.Net.The Huffington Post's FundRace is a website that tracks contributions to the presidential campaigns and includes a mapping feature that shows contributions broken down by city, neighborhood, and blockUK bloggers include Alan McGee, Jody Thompson, Dom Joly, Dina Rickman, Malcolm Cowley, Alex Lee Thomson, Anna Hart, Mark Boardman Markmeets Kat Jackman, Martin Moore, Colin Pattison, Belinda Parmar, Rachel Preece, Eric Ehrmann, and Labrinth.
Investment
In August 2006, The Huffington Post announced that SoftBank Capital would invest $5 million in the site, which had grown in popularity in only a year, to help expand it.[43] Plans included hiring more staff to update the site 24 hours a day, hiring in-house reporters and a multimedia team to make video reports. Alan Patricof's Greycroft Partners also invested. The news marked the site's "first round of venture capital funding"The site has now invested in video blogging, with many of the site contributors contributing via video, capturing clips in the media and posting them on the site.
In November 2008, The Huffington Post completed $15 million fundraising from investors to finance expansion, including more journalism and the provision of local news across the United States.On Februar 7, 2011, AOL announced it would acquire The Huffington Post for US$315 million. As part of the deal, Arianna Huffington became president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, including The Huffington Post and existing AOL properties Engadget, TechCrunch, Moviefone, MapQuest, Black Voices, PopEater, AOL Music, AOL Latino (now HuffPost Voces), AutoBlog, Patch and StyleList.[11]
Controversies