Thrillist, looking to tap the boom in local ad dollars, is expanding its NY-based guide to men's lifestyle and entertainment across the nation through two big new partnerships. Paid Content reported today that Thrillist will be partnering with the Huffington Post and ESPN, taking its content beyond a newsletter and setting it live on the city-specific sites of these two major... MORE >
Should Walt Disney Company CEO Robert Iger be worried? His wife, television journalist Willow Bay, helped inaugurate a new divorce section on the Huffington... MORE >
Digg, the social news aggregation site, has been having a bad month. After a disasterous redesign and a revolt by users many top staffers are fleeing the company and 37% of employees were laid... MORE >
Poor Arianna. Hot-headed musician John Mayer has taken to Tumblr to blast her much-maligned Huffington Post. The singer is mad because the celebrity-gossip arm of the site published a story headlined "Are John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston BACK TOGETHER?" They quote John as saying to a crowd on Sunday, "I believe in second chances!" and go on to speculate that, DUH, it's about Jennifer.... MORE >
The Huffington Post's Travel vertical launched today and The Wrap points out that it will be helmed by Kate Auletta, daughter of longtime New Yorker writer Ken. According to them, she has previously worked as an assistant editor at WSJ.... MORE >
Five years after its launch, with traffic at 22 million unique visitors last month, The Huffington Post is ready to turn a profit. Arianna Huffington's site plans to double revenue in 2010, from $15 million to $30 million, transitioning out of what CEO Eric Hippeau called "investment mode" to turn a proft for the first time, according to... MORE >
Frank Luntz, the Republican strategist whom Chris Matthews called a "freaking genius," and whose book is called Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear, has quite a piece on financial reform on the Huffington Post.... MORE >
According to city records, Thrillist's Ben Lerer, founder of the daily email newsletter geared toward a fine-tuned combo of urban mountain man and manicured metrosexual, sold his Soho loft for $1.65 million ... to his dad! The senior Mr. Lerer, Kenneth, is a fellow new-media mogul and co-founded the Huffington Post with Arianna... MORE >
Next week, the ever-boyish, bow-tied, former Crossfire-r Tucker Carlson launches a shot across the bow of conservative media with a new web site aimed at right-leaning readers. When he first announced the idea early last summer, Mr. Carlson said his new site--called The Daily Caller--would be "along the lines of The Huffington Post." Almost exactly parallel lines, as it turns out. The Washington Independent... MORE >
At least one reporter for The New York Times isn't thrilled that Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo are joining the White House press pool, reports Michael Calderone. "This is really troubling," said New York Times reporter Peter Baker in an email to POLITICO. "We're blurring the line between news and punditry even further and opening ourselves to legitimate questions among readers about where the White House press corps gets its... MORE >
Amy Hertz, the Huffington Post's new books section editor, who is also holding down her editing job at a Penguin division, has a little clarification for all the publicists who have been spamming her inbox with pitches: "This is NOT a book review section." Oh... MORE >
This past weekend, Arianna Huffington was in San Francisco for a little tech tour. On Friday, she visited Twitter’s home base, where she noshed on tacos and vegan cheese with co-founder Biz Stone. Later, she palled around with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg at the social network’s Palo Alto headquarters and discussed HuffPo Social News, a new feature on her “Internet newspaper” that allows users to connect with Facebook friends and see which HuffPo articles... MORE >
Just when you thought the Internet couldn’t get any louder! Tomorrow brings the launch of the Faster Times, “a new type of newspaper for a new type of world.” ... MORE >
By many measures, Eric Hippeau, the man who was named the new CEO of the Huffington Post on Monday, just got a dream job. He has a Web site with tiny overhead that has only burned through about $12 million in its first three and a half years online. And that’s not all. According to the Web site, it has 21 million unique users every month. It’s the most-linked-to blog on the Internet, according to... MORE >
All of the city’s young digerati will be Twittering about Internet Week New York starting Monday, June 1. Expect everyone from your regular Googlers and Facebookers to College Humor’s Jake & Amir, AOL’s newly minted executive Tim Armstrong, Barry Diller, Digg’s Kevin Rose and even Al Gore out on the... MORE >
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