The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post is an American online newspaper. It was founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer and Jonah Peretti and went on 9 May 2005 as a news and news commentary online platform. The political orientation of the American edition is regarded as left liberal. Since February 2011, the newspaper is owned by AOL. Arianna Huffington became president and editor in chief of the newly formed Huffington Post Media Group. 2012 received the Huffington Post as the first commercial online newspaper a Pulitzer Prize. Since October 10, 2013, is also a German edition.

Publication model

The Huffington Post brings together Internet links to a wide variety of news sources and columnists and besides provides their own reports and comments. Much of the posts written by unpaid volunteer writers. They refer almost exclusively on reports from other media and prepare these for a readership that is interested with strong opinion rating less of backgrounds than short summaries. Addition, there are almost daily columns by Huffington self and a core team of staff. In addition, the Huffington Post Posts by celebrities from the field of politics, journalism, business and entertainment published ( inter alia, Norman Mailer, John Cusack, Bill Maher ). Because of its reputation and access to important information channels succeed the employees regularly to publish exclusive messages.

History

Development from 2008

As of 2008, Huffington began on the basis of economic success restructure their businesses. You hired well-known journalists from mainstream media and built an editorial, the independent journalism operates. In February 2011, Huffington sold her company for 315 million U.S. dollars as a whole at AOL. As a result, all journalistic areas of both companies under the umbrella of AOL Huffington Post Media Group and the Huffington line were merged.

Since 2011, the Huffington Post is expanding worldwide, mostly with co-operation with national media houses. Thus was launched in May 2011, a Canadian Huffington Post, which appear depending on the regional focus, in English and French (Le Huffington Post Québec). This was followed by country-specific versions for the UK in July 2011, France in October 2011 ( with the partner Le Monde ), Spain in June 2012 ( with partner El País ) and Italy in September 2012 ( with the partner Gruppo Espresso ). Since May 2013, this is also a Japanese version together with the partner Asahi Shimbun, in June 2013 was followed by the French -language edition of Al Huffington Post for the states in the North African Maghreb.

Huffington Post Germany

The German version of the Huffington Post by AOL has been planned since the end of 2011 and in April 2013 took concrete form by the German -language offshoot was founded together with the Burda subsidiary Tomorrow Focus. On October 10, 2013 launched the German edition. To the editor in chief Sebastian Matthes was appointed publisher Cherno Jobatey and the headquarters is located in Munich.

Reception

  • According to market research firm comScore The Huffington Post in May 2013 has 77.2 million monthly visitors worldwide, of which 47.8 million visitors to the American edition.
  • The taz speaks of the most networked political blog of the Internet.
  • Spiegel Online called the Huffington Post, the most important source of information for millions of Americans and the most influential alternative medium of the United States.
  • From Time Magazine Arianna Huffington is on the list of 100 most influential people.
  • Stefan Niggemeier published in October 2013 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung a critical article ( a core sentence reads: Journalists, however, are suddenly confronted with the fact that their attention will be offered at each location, but more and more often lack the resources, converting them to euros ).
  • The Huffington Post blogger Thilo Specht published in October 2013 an article, the rumored, the Huffington Post is not a traditional news format, but rather an engagement platform ( Quote: The Huffington Post is a content management system with an attached 15 -member editorial staff and community. ).
  • Cicero referred to the German branch of the Huffington Post as a "new avenue for lobbying " in the Internet. The author of the article here refers to the first day of the offer "Recommended Posts " published " paean to the Russian energy giant " Gazprom by the head of the export division of the same company, Alexander Medvedev.
  • The German Journalists Association ( DJV ) criticized that guest writers Huffington Post Germany " not only free to work, but transferred ( almost) complete rights and also accept responsibility ."
  • According to Spiegel Online, the Germany edition is dominated by the CDU related bloggers; the American edition of the left-liberal bloggers.

Columnist / blogger

For the Huffington Post write many popular columnists (referred to as a blogger ), among them:

Awards

  • 2006 won the online newspaper its first Webby Award for best political blog.
  • 2012 won the Huffington Post the Pulitzer Prize in the category "National Reporting" for a series of articles of their military correspondent David Wood on wounded American war veterans.
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