Andrew Beaujon
June 17, 2013
4:13 pm
Buffalo Sabres
Huffington Post Senior Editor Craig Kanalley
will become the Buffalo Sabres' social media manager, the team announced Monday. "They've been my favorite sports team since I was a kid, and I'm excited about the opportunity to get back home to family and friends in Buffalo," Kanalley told Poynter in an email, noting that he was named after Sabres legend
Craig Ramsay.
I asked Kanalley, who has also worked as a social media editor at NBC News, whether it was tough to leave journalism. The "lines are blurring between journalism and marketing," he replied, continuing:
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Andrew Beaujon
May 30, 2013
9:21 am
The Huffington Post |
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Politico
McClatchy Washington bureau chief James Asher says his organization won't attend a planned meeting between news organizations and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. The Department of Justice is reaching out to news organizations to discuss its guidelines for seeking phone and email records from journalists.
"They don't help us inform the public," Asher said of off-the-record meetings in a phone interview with Poynter. "This one seems designed mostly to make a public relations point and not a substantive one. If the government wants to justify its pursuit of journalists, they ought to do it in public."
Other news organizations have also declined. (The Huffington Post's Michael Calderone is
keeping a running tally of who's in and who's out.)
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It isn't appropriate for us to attend an off the record meeting with the attorney general," Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson told The Huffington Post's Michael Calderone. "Our Washington bureau is aggressively covering the department's handling of leak investigations at this time."
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Rick Edmonds
May 29, 2013
4:21 pm
Cross Pierre Omidyar's serious-minded Honolulu Civil Beat with Arianna Huffington's traffic-driving wizardry, and what do you get? We'll soon see this fall with the launch of HuffPost Hawaii, a joint venture
the two groups announced today.
Civil Beat will continue as a separate site and editorially manage the collaboration, which will be promoted from the Huffington Post's main site. Shortened versions of Civil Beat's investigations and local political coverage will appear on HuffPost Hawaii. The site will also carry broader lifestyle and culture coverage aimed at travelers from both the United States and Japan (where HuffPost has formed another editorial partnership with Asahi Shimbun).
In a
promotional video, Huffington said a common denominator between the two online news ventures has been "creating a platform for voices" with diverse contributors and extensive discussion chains. Omidyar said he hopes to draw on the parent Huffington Post's reporting and commentary to attract local audiences to the new site.
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 29, 2013
11:22 am
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 26, 2013
4:40 pm
Bert Heyman wanted the photos of his son Chris Heyman's 2004 gun death to have an impact on the national debate over gun laws. "He wants every part of his son's case to matter," Huffington Post reporter Jason Cherkis told Poynter in a phone call. "It's almost like organ donation in a way."
But Huffington Post
published the photos of the crime scene in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., at 2:08 p.m. on Monday, April 15 -- less than an hour before two bombs went off at the Boston Marathon. So on Friday, the site republished the story, with updated details about, among other things, the U.S. Senate's
April 18 vote on gun background checks.
The photos aren't easy to look at, and The Huffington Post's article precedes them with a boldface and italic warning: "Note: The images below are graphic and may be disturbing to some readers."
A previous piece of Cherkis' gun reporting illustrated gun deaths
with an interactive map. This one is different. "We didn’t really approach it from the angle of wanting to make sure it’s shareable and viral," Huffington Post Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim, who edited the article, said. "This a much more personal experience for a reader."
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 11, 2013
10:24 am
Politico |
The Huffington Post
Politico reporter Mike Allen Thursday took issue with a Huffington Post story that said former Miss. Gov.
Haley Barbour left the super PAC American Crossroads. Barbour, Peter H. Stone's story said, was "appalled" by the way a Crossroads initiative "was rolled out on the front page of The New York Times in early February by the group's president, Steven Law."
Allen links to the HuffPost story in his enjoyable morning "Playbook" email with the heading "PLAYBOOK LIFE LESSONS - WHY YOU SHOULDN'T GO AHEAD AND POST A STORY WITHOUT TALKING TO THE KEY PERSON, even if they're traveling."
Stone's story "
has no basis in fact," Barbour tells Allen.
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 26, 2013
11:47 am
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 15, 2013
4:17 pm
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Like The Huffington Post’s annual
What Time Is the Super Bowl? page, Peter Daou and James Boyce’s suit asserting they’d helped start the site just won't die.
New York Supreme Court Judge Charles Ramos Wednesday ordered Arianna Huffington, Ken Lerer and the Huffington Post to answer the Democratic consultants' complaint, which charges that they'd written documents that became the framework for the site.
Ramos also quashed a subpoena Doau and Boyce's lawyers hoped to issue to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong. Armstrong engineered
AOL's purchase of The Huffington Post in February 2011 but was not an original founder of the site. The plaintiffs "have not demonstrated that Armstrong had any information other than that of his company, AOL, regarding the reasons for purchasing the Huffington Post," Ramos wrote.
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Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 24, 2013
4:36 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
Nov. 15, 2012
3:21 pm
Maynard Institute
Trymaine Lee, the Huffington Post reporter who helped move the Trayvon Martin story into the mainstream, is
taking a job at MSNBC.
Reached by phone, Lee told Poynter he was taking most of November off to spend time with his daughter, who was born in August. His exact role at MSNBC "will be tightened" after he gets there, he said, but he expects to focus on what he said were "issues that are important to progressives," such as gun rights and gun control.
As a police reporter at the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Lee was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its Hurricane Katrina coverage. He also contributed reporting to The New York Times' Pultizer Prize-winning coverage of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's downfall, Richard Prince writes.
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