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By Daniel D'Addario 2/18/11 2:59pm

Huffington Post Responds to Colbert by Repurposing Colbert’s Site

As a response to Stephen Colbert’s joking on The Colbert Report about “The Colbuffington Re-Post”–a site, identical in all particulars but name to the Huffington Post, that he planned to sell for $316 million–the Huffington Post announced its own new initiative, The Huffbert Nation. As one might guess, the site, though Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 2/17/11 9:46pm

Arianna Huffington Does Not Despise Children

As we reported Monday, Arianna Huffington spoke last weekend at a Columbia Spectator journalism awards dinner and casually offered everyone in the room a job. While we’re not sure she’ll get back to anyone (especially in light of the newly merged company retaining Booz to reportedly hash out layoffs, not hirings), she’s at Read More

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