A blogger who used to write for the Huffington Post filed a $315 million lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of all the writers who he says were not paid fairly for their work. Jonathan Tasini, a social activist, is seeking class-action status alleging that none…

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Unpaid Blogger Sues HuffPo

The Huffington Post is the target of a multi-million dollar lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of thousands of uncompensated bloggers.

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Media Decoder: Huffington Post Is Target of Suit

First it was Fox News, now it’s Arianna Huffington that New York Times editor Bill Keller is calling out. In this week’s New York Times Magazine, Keller criticizes what he calls “the American-Idolization of news,” singling out Huffington as “the queen…

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Keller Blasts Huffington

AOL is cutting about 20 percent of its staff just days after closing on its acquisition of The Huffington Post.

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Bits: AOL Lays Off 20% Following Huffington Purchase

US internet firm AOL is cutting 900 jobs, almost 20% of its workforce, after its purchase of the Huffington Post.

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Internet firm AOL to cut 900 jobs

Facebook, Twitter and The Huffington Post have done well for themselves using unpaid contributors. It’s enough to make a professional writer nervous.

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The Media Equation: At Media Companies, a Nation of Serfs

Although The Huffington Post does not pay those who volunteer to write blogs for it, this content represents only a small share of its traffic. And, to put it bluntly, many of those blog posts aren’t worth very much.

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FiveThirtyEight: Blogs and The Huffington Post

Arianna Huffington and The Daily Beast/Newsweek Editor Tina Brown sat down with Harper’s Bazaar for a joint interview. The two met as college students at Cambridge, when Brown was a playwright and Huffington a debate star. Huffington credits her…

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Huffington, Tina Brown Discuss New Media

In buying the liberal site The Huffington Post, AOL is trying to attract traffic and increase advertising revenue.

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AOL’s Bet on Another Makeover

By buying The Huffington Post, AOL will get a unique identity after veering from one approach to another as it tries to develop an ad-supported model.

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Media Decoder: AOL Buys Another Crack at a Future

US internet firm AOL agrees to a buyout of the Huffington Post online paper, creating a media group with 270 million users.

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AOL in $315m Huffington Post deal

AOL has agreed to purchase The Huffington Post for $315 million, the two entities announced in a joint news release Monday.

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AOL to acquire Huffington Post

AOL is swallowing the blogs: The Internet company just inked a $315 million deal to buy The Huffington Post, the next step in CEO Tim Armstrong’s strategy to write a miracle corporate-turnaround story for the troubled media company. AOL will pay $300…

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AOL to Buy The Huffington Post

It appears The Huffington Post has its own set of Winklevoss twins to deal with: Democratic consultants Peter Daou and James Boyce are suing the website, saying they came up with it with Arianna Huffington and never received credit. They say they gave…

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The Huffington Post’s Winklevii Twins

Senior White House Advisor David Axelrod said Thursday that President Obama has not caved to Republicans on extending the Bush tax cuts, disputing the Huffington Post’s account of an interview with him. Axelrod told HuffPost: “The administration is…

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Axelrod Denies Obama Will Extend Tax Cuts