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From superblog to “Internet newspaper”, the lessons of the Huffington Post

September 15, 2008 – 8:29 am

What’s so special about the Huffington Post? How come that what started as a political blog three years ago now epitomizes the “superblogs” threat to mainstream media? And, perhaps more important, what causes a blog to mutate into something now perceived as a mainstream media — and do the economics work?
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From a content perspective, the [...]

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The successful recipe of the Huffington Post

March 31, 2008 – 12:18 pm

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 [...]

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