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

HuffPo

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 8/15/11 8:45am

The Schmear

Morning Links: Roger Ailes Installed Dead Bolts on Megyn Kelly’s Doors

Marie Claire gave Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly a tough but fair Q & A, and you should read the whole thing because it’s fascinating, but these are the undisputed highlights:

You have a very close relationship with Fox News CEO Roger Ailes. Tell us something we may not know about him.

Obviously he’s very powerful, a television genius. Even his critics will cop to that. But he is also somebody who looks out for the people who work for him. A couple years ago, I had a very bad stalking problem. I was living alone in D.C. In addition to security Fox provided me, Roger offered to pay out of his own pocket for special dead bolts throughout my home. It was just a small thing, but he didn’t have to do it. I had a boss who cared, and it made me feel better. Read More