Three years after its launch by candidate-activist Arianna Huffington (bio here ), The Huffington Post is undoubtedly a success in the struggling editorial web world. With its 46 full-time staff and legion of bloggers, the site is poised to break even using only advertising revenue. In terms of audience, it is more popular than all but eight newspaper sites.
> the New Yorker explores the recipe of the Huffington Post, a mixture of strongly opinionated pieces and good basic journalism.
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