The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post is one of the most widely read sources of internet news today. The online news source was created in May of 2005 as a joint effort on the part of Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti in response to a growingly more Conservative media. Although the site tends to align itself with more traditionally liberal points of view, contributing writers and bloggers can write on a wide variety of subjects. The Huffington Post reports on topics ranging from politics, events, entertainment, and other popular topics of interest. Guest bloggers on the site range from celebrities to concerned citizens who have a need to be heard.
The Huffington Post features a number of blogs on their site, as well as videos, and a large number of other entries pertaining to the news of the day. The site has recently come under fire among other journalists for merely being a "giant link farm" that does not in fact report about topics but instead links to other sites that contain news content. Staff at The Huffington Post, as well as regular contributing writers on the site are very active in social media, where many of them can be found on Twitter, Facebook, and other popular networking sites as well.
Although the liberal news site was originally created primarily as a response to such sites as the Drudge Report, ranking sites such as Nielsen Net Ratings and Alexa report that the number of visitors to The Huffington Post site exceed visitors to the Drudge Report by nearly ten timesAlexa:[1]. According to Technorati, The Huffington Post is linked to more than any other site on the web Technorati: [2]. The site now has over 22 million unique visitors each month. Between 2006 and 2008, the online news site secured $25 million in funding in order to hire more full-time in-house staff and expand the site's web presence.
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Over the past couple of years, The Huffington Post, frequently called HuffPo for short, has gained a substantial amount of traffic. Since the site was originally intended to offer a more liberal perspective of news and events and compete directly with the existing Drudge Report blog, this video gives analysis and comparison of the traffic of these two sites, explaining how The Huffington Post got to the point where it received nearly twenty times as much traffic as its conservative competitor.
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Founders
Arianna Huffington
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Founded
May 2005
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Headquarters
New York, New York
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Monthly Traffic
20 Million +
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Slogan
"The Internet Newspaper"
