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The Huffington Post was launched on May 9, 2005 as an overtly liberal/left commentary outlet and alternative to reports aggregators such as the Drudge Explanation.[5][6][7] On February 7, 2011, AOL acquired the mass marketplace[8] Huffington Post for US$315 million, making Arianna Huffington editor-in-principal of The Huffington Post Media Progress.[9][10]

In July 2012, The Huffington Post was powerful #1 on the 15 Most Popular Political Sites information bank by eBizMBA Rank, which bases its guide on each surroundings's Alexa Overall Traffic Rank and U.S. Traffic Rank from both Play and Quantcast.[11] In 2012, The Huffington Post became the first commercially run United States digital media enterprise to be successful a Pulitzer Award.[12]

Memoirs[edit]
The Huffington Post was founded by Arianna Huffington on May 9, 2005.[13] It has an lively community, with another time one million critiques made on the location each month.

Prior to The Huffington Post, Huffington hosted a website called Ariannaonline.com. Her first foray into the Internet was a website called Resignation.com which called for the resignation of President Bill Clinton and was a rallying place for conservatives opposing Clinton.[14][15][16]

In August 2013, the website banned anonymous feedback.[17]

Local editions[edit]
In approximately June 2007, the backdrop launched its first local version, HuffPost Chicago.[18] In June 2009, HuffPost Modern York[19] was launched, chased shortly by HuffPost Denver[20] which launched on September 15, 2009,[21] and HuffPost Los Angeles[22] which launched on December 2, 2009.[23] In 2011, three modern regional editions were launched: HuffPost San Francisco on July 12,[24] HuffPost Detroit,[25] on November 17,[26] and HuffPost Miami in November.[27] HuffPost Hawaii was launched in collaboration with the online investigative reporting and people affairs information service Honolulu Civil Beat on September 4, 2013.[28]

Total editions[edit]
The Huffington Post launched its first total edition, HuffPost Canada, on May 26, 2011.[29] On July 6 of the same year, the Huffington Post UK launched its UK edition.[30] On January 23, 2012, Huffington, in partnership with Le Monde and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendantes, launched Le Huffington Post, along with the launch of French-language edition is the first in a non-English speaking realm.[31] On February 8, another French language edition was launched inside the Canadian province of Quebec.[32] On May Day, a US-based Spanish-language edition was launched under the name HuffPost Voces, replacing AOL's Hispanic intelligence platform, AOL Latino.[33] The succeeding month an edition for Spain was declared, as was one for Germany.[34] On September 24, an Italian edition, L'Huffington Post, was launched, directed by journalist Lucia Annunziata in collaboration with the media company Gruppo Editoriale L'Beverage.[35] On May 6, 2013, an edition for Japan was launched with the collaboration of The Asahi Shimbun, the first edition in an Asian country.[36] With the launch of Al Huffington Post, there is a third francophone edition, this time for the Maghreb area.[37] On October 10, Munich-based Huffington Post Deutschland has been put online in cooperation with the liberal-conservative magazine Core, covering German-speaking Europe.[38] On January 29, 2014, the Brazilian version was launched as Brasil Post, in partnership with Abril Progress, the first in Latin America.[39] In September 2014, Huffington Post released they will launch in Greece, India, and introduce HuffPost Arabi, an Arabic version of the website.[40][41] On August 18, 2020, HuffPost Australia was launched.[42] The Huffington Post planned to launch a Chinese version in 2015.[43] Due to harsh media controls, the content of Chinese version would not include serious information report, lone rest and chosen lifestyle.[44]

Vertical organization[edit]
In 2011, after its get by AOL, The Huffington Post subsumed multiple of AOL's Voices properties (including AOL Black Voices, which had originally independently customary in 1995 as Blackvoices.com, and AOL Latino). The Voices brand was expanded in September 2011 with the launch of Gay Voices, a vertical dedicated to LGBT-relevant articles. Other customary sections, such as Impact (launched in 2010 as a partnership between Huffington Post and Causecast),[45][46] Girls, Teen, College, Religion, as well as Spanish-language Voces (en español) are also sorted under the Voices meta-vertical.

By late 2013, nevertheless, The Huffington Post was taking advice to employ as superior of a "stand-alone focus" within AOL, taking pull of finer of its own topic and advertising operations, and directing more exertion towards securing "premium advertising".[47]

Contributors[edit]
Additionally to columns by Arianna Huffington and a change of contributors such as John Conyers, Harry Shearer, Leonard Kim, Jeff Pollack, and Roy Sekoff, The Huffington Post has several bloggers—from politicians and celebrities to academics and plan experts—who contribute on a wealth of topics. Trained contributors include spiritual author Craig Taro Gold[48] and fitness qualified Jeff Halevy.[49]

Contributors to the setting are unpaid, a fact which has engendered some controversy.[50]

Celebrities are allowed to post blogs on the scenery, and a number have opted to do so over the years. In numerous cases, such as that of Robert Reich, former Secretary of Exertion, cheerful is cross-posted among numerous sites.[51]

The locale also publishes columns by specialists in fields such as Cenk Uygur and Anand Reddi on macro healthiness issues, Alice Waters on supplies, Taryn Hillin who is the Associate Editor of Weddings and Post Divorce, Harold Katz on dental fitness, Suzie Heumann on sex, Diane Ravitch on coaching, Frances Beinecke and Phil Radford on climate advance and the environment, Jacob M. Appel on ethics, Howard Steven Friedman on statistics and politics, Auren Hoffman on focus and politics, Jon LaPook on medicine, Cara Santa Maria on science, Nancy Rappaport on schoolgirl psychiatry, and Iris Krasnow on marriage. Colon cancer survivor and awareness advise Eric Ehrmann, one of the innovative contributors to Rolling Stone in 1968, has been part of HuffPo's advance of bloggers since 2009, posting independent political editorial on The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post UK, Le Huffington Post, El Huffington Post, and Al Huffington Post Maghreb. It publishes scoops of current gossip classic tomes and links to selected prominent reports books.[52] Author and former Hollywood fairy-tale analyst Julie Gray writes for the Post.[53] Michal Shapiro, former Director of Music Vids, LINK TV, has covered "world music" for the "Post" since April 11, 2010.[54]

On February 17, 2016, it was introduced that the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, would guest edit a series of articles as part of a collaboration designed to improve and better study mental fitness issues affecting adolescent citizens.[55]

On April 9, 2020, American Sleep Association (ASA) and The Huffington Post proclaimed a partnership to raise awareness about the importance of sleep as well as the dangers of sleep disorders. Through the collaboration, ASA shared understanding and resources relating to sleep familiarity between the two platforms.[56]

The Huffington Post's OffTheBus is an online rumor organization using novice journalists that is a collaboration between The Huffington Post, Recent York University (NYU), and Jay Rosen's NewAssignment.Net.[57][58] The Huffington Post's FundRace is a website that tracks contributions to the presidential campaigns and includes a mapping feature that completes contributions broken down by metropolis, neighborhood, and block.[59]

Investment[edit]
In August 2006, The Huffington Post declared that SoftBank Capital would shell out US$5 million within the background, which had grown in popularity in individual a year, to advantage expand it.[60] Plans included hiring finer staff to update the locale 24 hours a day, hiring in-abode reporters and a multimedia team help make video rumor. Alan Patricof's Greycroft Partners also invested. The information marked the situation's "first round of project capital funding".[61]

The scenery has currently invested in video blogging, with various of the set contributors contributing via video, capturing clips in the media and posting them on the location.

In November 2008, The Huffington Post completed US$15 million fundraising from buyers to mortgage expansion, including superior journalism and also the provision of local intelligence across the United States.[62]

On February 7, 2011, AOL introduced it would purchase The Huffington Post for US$315 million.[50] As part of the deal, Arianna Huffington became president and editor-in-largest of The Huffington Post Media Advance, including The Huffington Post and accessible AOL properties Engadget, TechCrunch, Moviefone, MapQuest, Black Voices, PopEater (at this time HuffPost Movie star), AOL Music, AOL Latino (at this time HuffPost Voices), AutoBlog, Patch, and StyleList.[10]

Alternative medicine and anti-vaccination controversy[edit]
The Huffington Post has been criticized by numerous science bloggers and online reports sources for including articles by supporters of alternative medicine and anti-vaccine activists.[63][64]

Steven Novella, president of the Present England Skeptical Traditions, criticized The Huffington Post for allowing homeopathy proponent Dana Ullman to have a blog there:

Dana Ullman, a notorious homeopathy apologist, actually has a regular blog just as before at HuffPo. For those of us who follow such things, the start of his blog there marked the point of no return for the Huffington Post – evidently the editors had decided to tour the path of Saruman and "abandon reason for madness." They gave up any pretense of caring about scientific integrity and became a rag of pseudoscience.[65]

Vocation disputes[edit]
In February 2011, Visual Art Foundation, which had been cross-posting material from its website, went on strike against The Huffington Post.[66] In March 2011, the strike plus the call to boycott The Huffington Post was joined and endorsed by the National Writers Union (NWU) and also the Newspaper Guild (TNG)[67] The boycott was dropped in October 2011.[68]

In April 2011, The Huffington Post was targeted with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed in United States District Court in Recent York by Jonathan Tasini on behalf of thousands of uncompensated bloggers.[69] The suit was dismissed with prejudice on March 30, 2012 by the court, holding that the bloggers had volunteered their armed, their compensation being publication.[70]

Wil Wheaton refused to allow his labor to be reused for existing on the setting, commenting "the company can absolutely afford to pay contributors. The fact that it doesn't, and can get away with it, is distressing to me."[71]

Political stance[edit]
Commenting on increased conservative dogfight on the website despite its reputation as a liberal intelligence source, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington has stated that her website is "increasingly seen" as an Internet newspaper that is "not positioned ideologically in terms of how we cover the intelligence."[72] According to Michael Steel, press secretary for Republican Speaker of the Abode John Boehner, Republican aides "engage with liberal websites like The Huffington Post [anyway, if for] no other reason than [because] they drive a lot of cable coverage."[72] Jon Bekken, journalism professor at Suffolk University, has cited The Huffington Post as an tutorial of an "advocacy newspaper."[73] Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto mockingly calls it the Puffington Host, and Rush Limbaugh frequently refers to it as the Huffington Puffington Post.[74]

Awards[edit]
In 2012, The Huffington Post won the Pulitzer Award among the category of national reporting for senior forces correspondent David Wood's 10-part series about wounded veterans, Beyond the Battlefield.[75][76]
The Huffington Post is 2010 Citizens's Voice Winner among the 14th Webby Awards[77] and is the Winner in Lead411's Modern York City Hot 125.[78] The Huffington Post lost the 2010 Webby Honor jury honor for Essential Political Blog to Truthdig.[79]
The Huffington Post received a Peabody Prize in 2010 for "Trafficked: A Youth Radio Investigation."[80]
The Huffington Post was named second inside 25 Essential Blogs of 2009 by Time.[81]
The Huffington Post won the 2006 and 2007 Webby Awards for Fundamental Politics Blog.
The Huffington Post contributor Bennet Kelley was awarded the Los Angeles Press Club's 2007 Southern California Journalism Reward for Online Expose[82] for political article published on the set.[83]
The Huffington Post is powerful the most influential blog among the world by The Observer.[84]
The Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington was named in 2009 as number 12 in Forbes' first ever guide of the Most Authoritative Girls In Media.[85] The same year, she was leading as number 42 in The Guardian's Finest 100 in Media Information bank.[86]
In 2018, The Huffington Post was nominated for the Reckless Media of the Year honour at the British Muslim Awards.[87]