The Huffington Post
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The Huffington Post (often shortened to HuffPost or HuffPo) is a political group weblog founded by Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer. Begun on May 9, 2005, it is notable because of its early success and prominence as a predominantly leftist news and commentary outlet, and its feature of Huffington's network of prominent friends from various fields and viewpoints. Its name is most likely a play on The Washington Post, a prominent United States newspaper.
In addition to regular, almost-daily columns by Huffington and a core group of contributors (notably Harry Shearer, John Conyers, Cindy Sheehan), the HuffPost has featured notable celebrity contributors from politics, journalism, business, and entertainment (Norman Mailer, John Cusack, and Bill Maher, to name a few), as well as other relative unknowns. Because of the prominence and access of its contributors, the HuffPost regularly publishes scoops of current news stories, otherwise providing links to selected prominent news stories, providing a left counterpoint to the link-heavy style of The Drudge Report. Compared to other left blogs like the expertise-heavy Znet or the long-established Daily Kos, the HuffPost draws a balance between hard news commentary and celebrity opinion features.
The blog's coverage is composed primarily of U.S. politics.
Contributors
A comprehensive list of Huffington Post contributors can be found here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/index/Celebrity bloggers include current or former politicians:
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Prominent journalists & authors include:
Among the actors, directors, and producers featured have been:
Others include:
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Advance publicity claimed forthcoming articles from:
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Awards
The Huffington Post won the 2006 Webby Awards for Best Political BlogArianna Huffington was selected to the Time 100 list recognizing the 100 most influential peoplehttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187219,00.html
Controversy
George Clooney stated that he didn't compose a blog post that appeared on the Huffington Post under his name. Arianna Huffington stated that she recieved permission from Clooney's publicist to compile quotes from his television interviews and post it as a blog. The misunderstanding led to a rift between Clooney and Huffington. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/on-george-clooneys-blog_b_17350.htmlThe New York Times newspaper reports on the controversy surrounding blogger Peter Rost being banned from the Huffington Post http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/technology/26huff.html?ex=1152590400&en=d866e0dee616d13b&ei=5070. Rost claims he was fired for acting as a whistle blower exposing a troll within the Huffington Post organization while Huffington claims he was banned because "his blog was becoming about personal grudges...[which] would have been no problem if the posts were interesting."
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