By Kat Stoeffel 1/18/12 9:11am

Controversy Courting

Silda-ing. (Image via eyedrd.org)

Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Wife Named Editor of Huffington Post France

Le Huffington Post has found an editorial director in Anne Sinclair, wife of former I.M.F. director turned perp walk all-star Dominique Strauss-Kahn, reports L’Express.

Word reportedly got out because invitations to the site’s launch party on Monday listed Ms. Sinclair as a host. The Huffington Post France, like El Huffington Post, is a collaboration between the AOL-owned blog behemoth and a local paper, in its case, Le Monde. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 10/10/11 9:00am

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French Publishers Say ‘Bienvenue’ to Le Huffington Post

The Huffington Post is launching verticals faster than we could dream them up.

Last week the blog portal launched local news verticals for Detroit and Miami and  today Arianna Huffington announced a partnership with French news publishers Le Monde Group and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendantes (“LNEI”) to launch an international spin-off site called Le Huffington Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 8/02/11 9:55pm

off the record

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Forthcoming HuffPost High Taps Precocious Politics Reporter Myles Miller

Is Myles Miller about to become New York’s youngest editor?

The precocious politics beat reporter was recently named associate editor at the Huffington Post, to work on a not-yet-announced HuffPost vertical produced for and by high schoolers.

(A demographic which has been asking Arianna Huffington for a platform.)

As of a month ago Mr. Miller, 17, was a metropolitan correspondent for the International Business Times. Prior to that, he was embedded at City Hall for Examiner.com. And before that he worked for the Daily News while attending the NYC Lab School. He’s covered two presidents for two different news organizations. He’s already mastered the New York media job hop! Read More

By Emily Foxhall 7/18/11 11:08pm

Irony

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Arianna Huffington Elected to Committee to Protect Journalists–Just Not from Ghostwriting for Her Website [Updated]

The Huffington Post’s editorial credibility was called into question again today when GrubStreet.com reported Marion Nestle had been listed as a co-author for an article about a proposed NYC sugar-sweetened beverage ban. “I was amazed to see it. I don’t recall writing it,” Nestle said on her blog.

The article now stands corrected Read More

By Laura Kusisto 5/24/11 6:05pm

From the Finance File

$72 M. for Would-Be HuffPo Home

Ever since the Mattel Building at 675 Sixth Avenue lost its namesake toymaker, the upstairs office space has presented a puzzle.

The retail space is by now the happy home of Trader Joe’s, but the upper levels, which were converted to office spaces in 1986 under the ownership of Israel Taub’s Chelsea Green, are Read More