Accuracy in Media

Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington wants her staff to post more happy stories on Facebook in an effort to boost the distribution of their content on the social media site.

The Huffington Post announced last week that it is planning to stop using Associated Press stories once its contract ends in 2015, and instead plans to build an in-house news service while relaunching its website and expanding internationally. Huffington Post co-founder and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington made the announcement in a year-end memo to the staff: […]

Big media corporations are lobbying for passage of the Gang of Eight’s 844-page immigration bill, S. 744. Critics call it amnesty. In addition to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (the parent of Fox News), the companies include:  Walt Disney Co. (owns ABC News) Hearst Corp. (owns 15 daily newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, […]

Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather appeared on Piers Morgan Tonight this week to promote his new book, and told Morgan that he was impressed enough with Obama’s foreign policy to give the President an A for his efforts. Morgan: When you look at President Obama’s foreign policy since he became President, are you […]

During a discussion of whether or not it was proper of the Obama campaign to politicize the killing of Osama bin Laden, which occurred during a mission the President ordered one year ago this week, The View co-host Joy Behar said, in Obama’s defense, that if it had happened during George Bush’s tenure the Republicans […]

It has been a little more than a year since AOL announced it was buying the mega news-aggregation website The Huffington Post for what was considered an astronomical price of $315 million. At the time analysts wondered whether or not AOL-HuffPo would eventually become more HuffPo than AOL, since the site was showing some growth […]

According to the New York Post, the merger of AOL and the Huffington Post, which is approaching its one-year anniversary next week, has been an utter disaster — for AOL. One year after getting into bed with the media princess and plunking down $135 million to buy the Huffington Post, the AOL boss has seen […]

AOL stock nosedived by more than 25% yesterday after the company released earnings that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. The earnings reflected the first full quarter since the company purchased the Huffington Post earlier this year, which has failed to provide any of the synergy that AOL stockholders were promised when the deal was […]

Arianna Huffington, who has been engaged in an on-again, off-again war of words with The New York Times, threw down the gauntlet by criticizing the Gray Lady’s new pay wall. From WWD Arianna Huffington tossed another grenade in the direction of The New York Times on Wednesday afternoon, during her luncheon address at a Gilt […]

The Huffington Post appears to be benefiting from its merger with AOL as the latest website traffic numbers show a significant spike in traffic. Since the merger took effect, AOL has fired hundreds of employees and dropped websites that Arianna Huffington didn’t feel comported with her strategy to remake the combined company. According to the […]