In today’s Media Briefs: Anyone hacked a phone? Me too! … Nine Perth chooses not to join the dots … Front Page of the Day …Neville Thurlbeck: NoW executives withheld information from MPs and more …
Arianna Huffington
HuffPo setting its sites on Oz? Let’s wait and see
Last week the founder of the Huffington Post said, in what may or may not have been a throwaway line, that it would soon open sites to serve several countries, including Australia.
Arianna Huffington, a woman of questionable SEO morals
Arianna Huffington, the founder of Huffington Post, made her site so successful thanks to shameless — and successful — attempts to link-bait headlines. What was once looked down on by old media organisations has now been embraced wholeheartedly, and it’s thanks to Huffington, says Jack Shafer.
HuffPo makes moolah
It might not pay any of its contributors — well a few journalists, but not its opinion articles — but popular news website Huffington Post is now making a profit. It’s traffic is up 80% this year.
Huffington: And the Oscar for the lamest political speech goes to…
Arianna Huffington announces the Political Oscars, where each category has both a film and a political equivalent. Top awards include Worst Sex Scene and Least Charming Bad Guy. The envelopes please…
Arianna Huffington: Suck it up, Rupert
Murdoch and his offsiders have called news aggregators “parasites,” “content kleptomaniacs”, and “tech tapeworms in the intestines of the Internet”. Enough with the name calling, says Arianna Huffington.
The 25 smartest people of the decade
The Daily Beast names its picks for the 25 greatest minds of the noughties, including Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Arianna Huffington and Indian PM Manmohan Singh.
HuffShow? Arianna Huffington’s new TV show
Arianna Huffington, matriarch of the all-aggregating, all-blogging white hot mess that is The Huffington Post, is trying her hand at TV producing, with a new sitcom about congressmen… who are also housemates! Sounds like comedy gold.
HuffPo pushing past politics
More than half of The Huffington Post’s traffic now comes from people who aren’t interested in politics, according to The Huff herself. With that in mind, the aggregating empire is set to roll out sport, books and technology sections over the next few months.
HuffPo‘s unhealthy quackery
Pay peanuts… It’s one thing for The Huffington Post’s army of unpaid bloggers to pontificate on politics, but when it comes to science and medicine, it’s just irresponsible to publish the crackpot theories of unqualified, self-appointed “experts” says doctor Rahul K. Parikh.
Huffington Post: cheap, trashy and parasitic
The Huffington Post “likes to masquerade as a forward-thinking, paradigm-shifting journalistic institution”, says Simon Dumenco, but they don’t pay most of their writers, and leech most of their content from “real” journalists.
HuffPo’s front page: only 6% original content
Bloggasm uses the power of maths to assess whether the Huffington Post is ” making a significant contribution to original reporting.” The result? Not so much.
Arianna Huffington: all puff, no substance
Perhaps it is a mistake to hold Arianna Huffington to any real standard of intellectual or journalistic rigor. She is just an adventuress, ideologically and socially. Isaac Chotiner reviews her latest book.
The award for the most bitterly ironic media award goes to…
Why is Syracuse University giving a journalism award to Arianna Huffington — a woman who thinks journalists should work for free? asks Simon Dumenco.
Huffington: How we respond to torture will define us
How the US responds to the revelations about the Bush administration’s use of torture will define the country, writes Arianna Huffington.
Get over it media giants, we’re going to co-opt your copy
Borrowing, sponging, lifting, scrounging, leaching, pinching, and outright theft of other publications’ work is firmly in the American journalistic tradition, says Slate’s Jack Shafer.
Media briefs: Murdoch Twitter rumours… Swedes tattoo magazines to save trees…
Today’s headlines about the headline makers.
Media briefs: No guests at Sky Canberra… Naked journalism at The Age…
Sky News: no cameraman, no guests, just straight talking news … Subless n-ked journalism … Mags tap into reader generated content … Google Mail goggles … Arianna’s New Yorker moment … The Beast is born
Scoop! John Howard takes his ‘insight’ to the world
Former Prime Minister John Howard has signed with powerhouse public speaking agency Washington Speakers Bureau, writes Christian Kerr.
