• HuffPo Launches L.A. Edition

    Arianna rolls out fourth localized vertical.

  • Politics Still Raging on the Web

    Political sites booming, even with the inauguration a distant past

    Politics Still Raging on the Web
  • A Guide for Political Junkies

    Crooks and Liars Widely read political blog, launched by then-professional musician John Amato in 2004.   Daily Kos Progressive juggernaut site founded by Markos Moulitsas in 2002.   Huffington Post Launched as a liberal political uber-blog in 2005, has expanded into a full-blown Internet newspaper.   Politico Web site and newspaper launched in 2006, said…

  • HuffPo Readies Sports, Tech, Books Verticals

    Site looking more and more like a newspaper.

  • ‘Onion’ Editor Calls HuffPo Headline ‘Wildly Sensational’

    Baratunde Thurston, a writer, comedian, web editor at “The Onion” and newly-minted television host, interviewed White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett at the Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburgh over the weekend. The defining moment of the interview, according to the Huffington Post, “came when Jarrett was hissed and heckled.” Thurston, an occasional Huffington Post contributor…

  • Hippeau Tapped CEO of Huffington Post

    Exec is managing partner of SoftBank Capital and former CEO of Ziff-Davis.

  • Eat the (New) Press: Breakfast at Balthazar’s

    The cognoscenti of new media were gathered not-terribly-early beneath the soaring, molded plaster ceilings of Balthazar’s, a famous, French-style bistro with heavenly croissants and great big masses of flowers in vases, perched at the corner of Spring and Broadway. It was 9:30, and the vibe was laid-back-about-to-inherit-the-power-from-those-big-money media-moguls-uptown-we-can-wait-a-month. Betsy Morgan, the CEO of Huffington Post,…