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''HuffPost'' (formerly ''The Huffington Post'' until 2017 and sometimes abbreviated ''HuffPo'') is an American
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news website, with localized and international editions. The site offers news, satire, blogs, and original content, and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interests, and local news featuring columnists. It was created to provide a
progressive Progressive may refer to: Politics * Progressivism, a political philosophy in support of social reform ** Progressivism in the United States, the political philosophy in the American context * Progressive realism, an American foreign policy pa ...
alternative to the
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news websites such as the Drudge Report. The site offers content posted directly on the site as well as user-generated content via video blogging, audio, and photo. In 2012, the website became the first commercially run United States digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize. Founded by Andrew Breitbart,
Arianna Huffington Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (née Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, el, Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου ; born July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of ''The ...
, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, the site was launched on May 9, 2005 as a counterpart to the Drudge Report. In March 2011, it was acquired by
AOL AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by the current incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. ...
for US$315 million, making
Arianna Huffington Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (née Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, el, Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου ; born July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of ''The ...
editor-in-chief. In June 2015, Verizon Communications acquired AOL for US$4.4 billion and the site became a part of Verizon Media. In November 2020,
BuzzFeed BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media. Based in New York City, BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson III to focus on tracking viral content. Ken ...
acquired the company. Weeks after the acquisition, BuzzFeed laid off 47 ''HuffPost'' staff in the U.S. (mostly journalists) and closed down ''HuffPost Canada'', laying off 23 staff working for the Canadian and Quebec divisions of the company.


History

''The Huffington Post'' was launched on May 9, 2005, as a commentary outlet, blog, and an alternative to news aggregators such as the Drudge Report. It was founded by
Arianna Huffington Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (née Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, el, Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου ; born July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of ''The ...
, Andrew Breitbart, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti. Prior to this, Arianna Huffington hosted the website Ariannaonline.com. Her first foray into the Internet was the website Resignation.com, which called for the resignation of President Bill Clinton and was a rallying place for
conservatives Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization ...
opposing Clinton. An early ''Huffington Post'' strategy was crafting search-engine optimized (SEO) stories and headlines based around trending keywords, such as "What Time Is the Super Bowl?" In August 2006, ''The Huffington Post'' raised a $5 million Series A round from SoftBank Capital and
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. In December 2008, ''The Huffington Post'' raised $25 million from
Oak Investment Partners Oak Investment Partners is a private equity firm focusing on venture capital investments in companies developing communications systems, information technology, new Internet media, healthcare services and retail. History The firm, founded in 19 ...
at a $100 million valuation and
Fred Harman Fred Charles Harman II (February 9, 1902 - January 2, 1982) was an American cartoonist, best known for his popular ''Red Ryder'' comic strip, which he drew for 25 years, reaching 40 million readers through 750 newspapers. Harman sometimes used th ...
of Oak Investment Partners joined its board of directors. The money was to be used for technology, infrastructure, investigative journalism, and development of local versions. In June 2009,
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, co-managing partner of Softbank Capital, became CEO of ''The Huffington Post''. In January 2011, ''The Huffington Post'' received 35% of its traffic from web search engines, compared to 20% at
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. This strategy appealed to AOL CEO
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, who tried to implement similar SEO-driven journalism practices at AOL at the time of its acquisition of ''The Huffington Post''. In March 2011,
AOL AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by the current incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. ...
acquired ''The Huffington Post'' for 315 million. As part of the deal, Huffington became president and editor-in-chief of ''The Huffington Post'' and existing AOL properties Engadget, TechCrunch,
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, MapQuest, Black Voices, PopEater (now HuffPost Celebrity), AOL Music, AOL Latino (now ''HuffPost Voices''), AutoBlog, Patch, and StyleList. ''The Huffington Post'' subsumed many of AOL's ''Voices'' properties, including ''AOL Black Voices'', which was established in 1995 as Blackvoices.com, and ''AOL Latino'', ''Impact'' (launched in 2010 as a partnership between ''Huffington Post'' and Causecast), ''Women'', ''Teen'', ''College'', ''Religion'', and the Spanish-language ''Voces (en español)''. The ''Voices'' brand was expanded in September 2011 with the launch of ''Gay Voices'', dedicated to LGBT-relevant articles. By late 2013, the website operated as a "stand-alone business" within AOL, taking control of more of its own business and advertising operations, and directing more effort towards securing "premium advertising". In June 2015, Verizon Communications acquired AOL for US$4.4 billion and the site became a part of Verizon Media. Huffington resigned to pursue other ventures and was succeeded as editor-in-chief by
Lydia Polgreen Lydia Frances Polgreen (born 1975) is an American journalist. She is best known for having been the editor-in-chief of ''HuffPost''. She also spent about one year between 2021 and 2022 as the head of content for Gimlet Media. Prior to that she wa ...
in December 2016. In April 2017, Polgreen announced the company would rebrand, changing its official full name to ''HuffPost'', with changes also to the design of its website and logo and content and reporting. On January 24, 2019, 20 employees were laid off as a part of Verizon Media laying off 7% of its staff. The opinion and health sections were eliminated. Pulitzer Prize finalist Jason Cherkis lost his job. On March 6, 2020, Polgreen announced that she would step down as editor-in-chief to become the head of content at
Gimlet Media Gimlet Media LLC is a digital media company and podcast network, focused on producing narrative podcasts and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. The company was founded in 2014 by Alex Blumberg and Matthew Lieber, who serve as the company's C ...
. On November 19, 2020, it was announced that
BuzzFeed BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media. Based in New York City, BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson III to focus on tracking viral content. Ken ...
had agreed to acquire ''HuffPost'' from Verizon Media in a stock deal. Later in November 2020, HuffPost shut down its India operation after six years. According to some media reports, the acquisition did not include the India site due to regulations barring foreign ownership of Indian Digital Media. On February 16, 2021, BuzzFeed's acquisition of ''HuffPost'' officially closed. On March 9, 2021, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti said that the company had lost "around $20 million" during the previous year. The same day, it was announced that ''HuffPost Canada'' would be shut down and immediately ceased publishing. On April 12, 2021, Danielle Belton became editor-in-chief.


Local editions

* In spring 2007, the first local version, ''HuffPost Chicago'', was launched. * In June 2009, ''HuffPost New York'' was launched. * ''HuffPost Denver'' launched on September 15, 2009. * ''HuffPost Los Angeles'' launched on December 2, 2009. * ''HuffPost San Francisco'' launched on July 12, 2011. * ''HuffPost Detroit'' launched on November 17, 2011 * ''HuffPost Miami'' launched in November 2011. * ''HuffPost Hawaii'' was launched in collaboration with the online investigative reporting and public affairs news service Honolulu Civil Beat on September 4, 2013.


International editions

* On May 26, 2011, ''HuffPost Canada'', the first international edition, was launched. Following
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's acquisition of HuffPost, it was announced on March 9, 2021, that ''HuffPost Canada'' would stop publishing content and cease operations the following week as part of a broader restructuring plan for the company. * On July 6, 2011, ''Huffington Post UK'' was launched. * On January 23, 2012, ''The Huffington Post'', in partnership with ''
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'' and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendantes, launched ''Le Huffington Post'', a French-language edition and the first in a non-English speaking country. * On February 8, 2012, another French language edition was launched in Quebec. * On May 1, 2012, a U.S.-based Spanish-language edition was launched under the name ''HuffPost Voces'', replacing AOL Latino. * In June 2012, the edition for Spain, ElHuffPost, was launched. * On May 6, 2013, an edition for Japan was launched with the collaboration of ''
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'', the first edition in an Asian country. * On September 24, 2013, an Italian edition, ''L'Huffington Post'', was launched, directed by journalist
Lucia Annunziata Lucia Annunziata (Sarno, 8 August 1950) is an Italian journalist. Career Born in Sarno (in the Salerno province), at the age of 13 she moved to Salerno, where she attended high school and university, obtaining a degree in History and Philosoph ...
in collaboration with the media company
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. * In June 2013, ''Al Huffington Post'', the third
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edition, launched for the
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area. On December 3, 2019, the Maghreb edition was closed. * On October 10, 2013, Munich-based ''Huffington Post Deutschland'' was launched in co-operation with the liberal-conservative magazine ''
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'', covering
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. On January 11, 2018, it was announced that the German language edition would shut down on March 31, 2018. * In January 2014,
Arianna Huffington Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (née Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, el, Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου ; born July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of ''The ...
and
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announced the launch of the ''WorldPost'', created in partnership with the Berggruen Institute. Its contributors have included former British prime minister
Tony Blair Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...
, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, novelist Jonathan Franzen, and musician
Yo-Yo Ma Yo-Yo Ma (''Chinese'': 馬友友 ''Ma Yo Yo''; born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born in Paris to Chinese parents and educated in New York City, he was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from ...
. * On January 29, 2014, the Brazilian version was launched as ''Brasil Post'', in partnership with Grupo Abril, the first in Latin America. Brasil Post was later renamed ''Huffington Post Brasil'' in 2015, then ''HuffPost Brasil''. In November 2020, the edition was closed down following BuzzFeed's acquisition. * In February 2014, a Korean language edition was launched in South Korea in partnership with the local center-left newspaper ''
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. * In September 2014, planned launches were announced for sites for Greece, India, as well ''
HuffPost Arabi Arabic Post (Arabic: عربي بوست), formerly known as HuffPost Arabi (Arabic: عربي HuffPost) was an Arabic-language news web site founded by Wadah Khanfar, the former CEO of Al Jazeera Media Network in partnership with ''The Huffington P ...
'', an Arabic version of the website. * On August 18, 2015, ''HuffPost Australia'' was launched. * On November 21, 2016, ''HuffPost South Africa'', the brand's first sub-Saharan edition, was launched in partnership with Media24. The South African edition stopped when the partnership with Media24 ended in 2018.


Criticism and controversy


Unpaid bloggers

The site originally published work from both paid reporters and unpaid bloggers through its contributor platform. In February 2011, Visual Art Source, which had been cross-posting material from its website, went on strike against ''The Huffington Post'' to protest its writers not being paid. In March 2011, the strike and the call to boycott was joined and endorsed by the National Writers Union and
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; however, the boycott was dropped in October 2011. In April 2011, ''The Huffington Post'' was targeted with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by
Jonathan Tasini Jonathan Bernard Yoav Tasini (born October 18, 1956) is an American political strategist, organizer, activist, commentator and writer, primarily focusing his energies on the topics of work, labor and the economy. On June 11, 2009, he announced th ...
on behalf of thousands of uncompensated bloggers. On March 30, 2012, the suit was dismissed with
prejudice Prejudice can be an affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived group membership. The word is often used to refer to a preconceived (usually unfavourable) evaluation or classification of another person based on that person's perc ...
by the court, holding that the bloggers had volunteered their services, their compensation being publication. In 2015, Wil Wheaton stated that he refused to allow his work to be reused for free on the site. The practice of publishing blog posts from unpaid contributors ended in January 2018. This transformed the site, which had become notable for featuring extensive sections in a broad range of subjects from a significant number of contributors. Some of the contributors included: * Adrienne Wu on gender, and species, identity *
Arianna Huffington Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (née Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, el, Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου ; born July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of ''The ...
*
Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...
on politics * Robert Reich on politics *
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge Catherine, Princess of Wales, (born Catherine Elizabeth Middleton; 9 January 1982) is a member of the British royal family. She is married to William, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the British throne, making Catherine the likely next ...
on mental health issues. * Harry Shearer on life issues *
Jeff Pollack Jeffrey Ian Pollack (November 15, 1959 – December 23, 2013) was an American film director, screenwriter, television producer and writer. As a film director he directed the films ''Above the Rim'' (1994), ''Booty Call'' (1997) and '' Lost ...
on music * Roy Sekoff on politics * Craig Taro Gold, spiritual author * Jeff Halevy on health *
Cenk Uygur Cenk Kadir Uygur ( ; ; born March 21, 1970) is a Turkish-American progressive political commentator, media host, attorney, journalist, and politician. Uygur is the creator of ''The Young Turks'', an American left-wing, sociopolitical, progressiv ...
*
Diane Ravitch Diane Silvers Ravitch (born July 1, 1938) is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Previously, she was a U.S. A ...
on education *
Jacob M. Appel Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American author, poet, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic.Nagamatsu, Sequoia "A Few Words with the Ubiquitous Jacob M. Appel" ''Prince Mincer'' Journal http://primemincer.com/ confirmed ...
on ethics * Howard Friedman on statistics and politics *
Auren Hoffman Auren Raphael Hoffman (born 1974) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, author and CEO of SafeGraph, a firm that gathers location data from mobile devices and sells information about places and the movements of people. Personal life Hoffma ...
on business and politics *
Cara Santa Maria Cara Louise Santa Maria (born October 19, 1983) is an American science communicator. She hosts the podcast ''Talk Nerdy'' and co-hosts ''The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe'' podcast, and was a co-host of TechKnow on Al Jazeera America. Santa M ...
on science * Nancy Rappaport on child psychiatry * Iris Krasnow on marriage *
Anand Reddi Anand Reddi is a researcher and global health specialist. He is known for his scholarly work on U.S. Global Health Policy including the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). His basic science research focuses on the molecular mech ...
publishes on
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*
Radley Balko Radley Prescott Balko (born April 19, 1975) is an American journalist, author, blogger, and speaker who writes about criminal justice, the drug war, and civil liberties. In 2022, he began publishing his work on Substack after being let go from ' ...
on civil liberties and the criminal justice system * Frances Beinecke on climate change and the environment * Jenna Busch on the entertainment industry *
Jerry Capeci Gerald Capeci () is an American journalist and author who specializes in coverage of the Five Mafia crime families of New York City. Capeci has been described by news organizations, such as CNN and BBC, as an expert on the American Mafia.
on the mafia *
Margaret Carlson Margaret Carlson is an American journalist, political pundit, and an opinion columnist for Bloomberg News. She is known for being the first female columnist for ''Time'' magazine. She was a regular panelist for CNN's '' Capital Gang'' from 1992 ...
on politics * Dominic Carter on politics * Deepak Chopra on integrative medicine and personal transformation *
John Conyers John James Conyers Jr. (May 16, 1929October 27, 2019) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. representative from Michigan from 1965 to 2017. The districts he represented always included part of western Detroit ...
(deceased) on politics * Danielle Crittenden on Jewish lifestyle * Laurie David on environmental and food issues *
Andrea Doucet Andrea Doucet (born c.1960) is a Canadian social scientist and writer. She is professor of sociology and gender studies at Brock University, and holds the Canada Research Chair in gender, work and care. She was also the editor of the academic jour ...
on gender relations * Ryan Duffy on demographic trends * Maddy Dychtwald on gender relations *
Ivan Eland Ivan Eland (; born February 23, 1958) is an American defense analyst and writer. He is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute. Eland's writings generally propose libertarian and non-interventio ...
on defense *
Mitch Feierstein Mitchell B. Feierstein is a British-American investor, banker and writer. He has worked as a columnist for the Daily Mail and works as a columnist for The Independent and the Huffington Post. Feierstein appears regularly as a financial commentator o ...
on the Federal Reserve *
Bruce Fein Bruce Fein (born March 12, 1947) is an American lawyer who specializes in constitutional and international law. Fein has written numerous articles on constitutional issues for ''The Washington Times'', ''Slate.com'', ''The New York Times'', ' ...
on law *
Ashley Feinberg Ashley Feinberg is an American journalist, covering politics, media, and technology. She is known for her internet sleuthing, through which she has uncovered information about the online activity of public figures. Education Feinberg was born in ...
on politics, media, and technology *
Michelle Fields Michelle Fields (born January 10, 1988) is an American political journalist who formerly wrote for ''The Huffington Post'', and was a reporter for ''Breitbart News'', as well as a Fox News contributor. After graduating from college, Fields was hi ...
on politics *
Rob Fishman Rob Fishman (born March 31, 1986) is an American entrepreneur and writer. Early life and education Fishman is from Scarsdale, New York and is a graduate of Cornell University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the g ...
on social media * Myriam François-Cerrah on France and the Middle East *
Dan Froomkin Dan Froomkin is the editor of Press Watch, an independent website previously known as White House Watch. He is a former senior writer and Washington editor for ''The Intercept''. Prior to that, he was a writer and editor for ''The Huffington Post' ...
on politics * Yvonne K. Fulbright on sexuality * Phil Radford on climate change and the environment *
Lauren Galley Lauren Marie Galley (born January 10, 1995), is a multi-media spokesperson, author and entrepreneur. Print media In 2013, Galley published ''Girls Above Society: Steps To Success: An Empowerment Guide''. It was released by Girls Above Society ...
on issues important to teen girls * Mort Gerberg publishes cartoons *
Tim Giago Timothy Antoine Giago Jr. (July 12, 1934 – July 24, 2022), also known as Nanwica Kciji, was an American Oglala Lakota journalist and publisher. In 1981, he founded the ''Lakota Times'' with Doris Giago at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, wh ...
on Native Americans *
Steve Gilliard Steve Gilliard (November 13, 1964 – June 2, 2007) was an American freelance journalist and left-wing political blogger who ran the website ''The News Blog''. An outspoken and at times controversial figure, he was an influential voice in the left- ...
on politics * Philip Giraldi on counterterrorism issues * David Goldstein on politics * Nathan Gonzalez on foreign policy * Kent Greenfield on constitutional law, business law, and legal theory *
Anthony Gregory Anthony Gregory (born January 3, 1981) is an American historian and author. He has published two books on civil liberties in the United States and in the English legal tradition. Prior to becoming an academic historian, Gregory published hundreds ...
on habeas corpus *
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on politics in a comedic taste *
David Hackel Dave Hackel is an American producer and screenwriter. He is best known for creating, writing and producing the CBS sitcom '' Becker'', which starred Ted Danson and ran from 1998 until 2004. Hackel grew up in Delaware, Ohio. He later moved to L ...
on politics *
Leon Hadar Leon Hadar, is a global affairs analyst, journalist, blogger and author. A long-time critic of American policy in the Middle East, and a former research fellow with the Cato Institute, Hadar has been a contributing editor for ''The American Conserv ...
on foreign policy * Katie Halper on politics * Thor Halvorssen on human rights *
Jane Hamsher Jane Hamsher (born Jane Murphy; July 25, 1959) is a US film producer, author, and blogger best known as the author of ''Killer Instinct'', a memoir about co-producing the 1994 movie ''Natural Born Killers'' with Don Murphy and others, and as the ...
on politics *
Aaron Harber Aaron Harber is an American long-form political TV talk show host featured on KCDO-TV Channel 3 Colorado, COMCAST Entertainment Television, and KPXC-TV (ION Media Networks), as well as on individual stations (such as TV Aspen). Harber often wr ...
on politics *
Johann Hari Johann Eduard Hari (born 21 January 1979) is a British-Swiss writer and journalist who has written for ''The Independent'' and ''The Huffington Post''. In 2011, Hari was suspended from ''The Independent'' and later resigned, after admitting to ...
on drugs and addiction *
David Harsanyi David Harsanyi (born circa 1970) is an American conservative journalist, columnist, author, and editor. He wrote for the ''Denver Post'' for eight years, then '' Blaze'', and then he edited for '' The Federalist'' for more than six years. He beca ...
on politics and culture * Gary Hart on international law * Mehdi Hasan on the Middle East *
Auren Hoffman Auren Raphael Hoffman (born 1974) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, author and CEO of SafeGraph, a firm that gathers location data from mobile devices and sells information about places and the movements of people. Personal life Hoffma ...
on entrepreneurship * Nicholas von Hoffman on politics * Paul Holdengräber on the arts * Hamid Naderi Yeganeh on math art


Alternative medicine and anti-vaccination controversy

''HuffPost'' has been criticized for providing a platform for
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and supporters of
vaccine hesitancy Vaccine hesitancy is a delay in acceptance, or refusal, of vaccines despite the availability of vaccine services and supporting evidence. The term covers refusals to vaccinate, delaying vaccines, accepting vaccines but remaining uncertain abou ...
. Steven Novella, president of the
New England Skeptical Society The New England Skeptical Society (NESS) is an American organization dedicated to promoting science and reason. It was founded in January 1996 as the Connecticut Skeptical Society, by Steven Novella, Perry DeAngelis and Bob Novella. The group late ...
, criticized ''The Huffington Post'' for allowing homeopathy proponent Dana Ullman to have a blog on the site. In 2011, skeptic Brian Dunning listed it at No. 10 on his "Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Websites" list.


Anne Sinclair appointment to editorial director in France during Strauss-Kahn affair

In January 2012, ''The Huffington Post'' was criticized for naming as editorial director in France the well-known former TV journalist
Anne Sinclair Anne Sinclair (, born Anne-Élise Schwartz; 15 July 1948) is a New-York-born French television and radio interviewer. She hosted one of the most popular political shows for more than thirteen years on TF1, the largest European private TV channel. ...
because she stood by her husband Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former IMF head, when several women accused him of sexual assault. Commentators at ''
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'', ''
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'', and ''
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'' warned against potential conflict of interest in the French edition's news coverage.


Apology by the South African edition

In April 2017, ''HuffPost South Africa'' was directed by the press ombud to apologize unreservedly for publishing and later defending a column calling for disenfranchisement of white men which was declared malicious, inaccurate and discriminatory hate speech.


Jeffrey Epstein

In July 2019, ''HuffPost'' was criticized for publishing a story written by Rachel Wolfson, a publicist, that praised
Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Edward Epstein ( ; January 20, 1953August 10, 2019) was an American sex offender and financier. Epstein, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, began his professional life by teaching at the Dalton School in Manhattan, des ...
. Editors later removed the article at the author's request.


Political stance

''HuffPost'' has been seen as a mostly
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, and '' Politico''. Upon becoming the editor-in-chief in December 2016,
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said that the "wave of intolerance and bigotry that seems to be sweeping the globe" after the election of Donald Trump was remarkable and ''The Huffington Post'' has an "absolutely indispensable role to play in this era in human history." Commenting in 2012 on increased
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engagement on the website despite its reputation as a liberal news source, ''The Huffington Post'' founder
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stated that her website is "increasingly seen" as an Internet newspaper that is "not positioned ideologically in terms of how we cover the news". According to Michael Steel, press secretary for Republican Speaker of the House
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, Republican aides "engage with liberal websites like ''The Huffington Post'' nyway, if forno other reason than ecausethey drive a lot of cable coverage". Jon Bekken, journalism professor at
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, has cited it as an example of an " advocacy newspaper". '' The Wall Street Journal'' editor
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, ''HuffPost'' regularly appended an editor's note to the end of stories about candidate Donald Trump, reading: "Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims—1.6 billion members of an entire religion—from entering the U.S." After Trump was elected on November 8, 2016, ''HuffPost'' ended this practice to "give respect to the office of the presidency."


Awards

* Won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 in the category of national reporting for senior military correspondent David Wood's ''Beyond the Battlefield'', a 10-part series about wounded veterans. * 2010 "People's Voice" winner in the 14th Webby Awards. ''The Huffington Post'' lost the 2010 Webby Award jury prize for "Best Political Blog" to Truthdig. *
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in 2010 for "Trafficked: A Youth Radio Investigation". * Named second among the "25 Best Blogs of 2009" by '' Time.'' * Won the 2006 and 2007 Webby Awards for "Best Politics Blog". * Contributor Bennet Kelley was awarded the Los Angeles Press Club's 2007 Southern California Journalism Award for Online Commentary for political commentary published on the site. * Ranked the most powerful blog in the world by '' The Observer'' in 2008. * Co-founder
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ranked 12th in the 2009 list of the "Most Influential Women in Media" by '' Forbes''. She was ranked 42nd in the 2009 Top 100 in Media List by '' The Guardian''. * Nominated in 2015 for the "Responsible Media of the Year" award at the
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