In , Huffington was No. She has also moved up to No. On August 11, , it was announced that she would step down from her role at The Huffington Post to devote her time to a new startup, Thrive Global, focused on health and wellness information. Huffington priksribas sin kiel "eksan konservativulon, kiu evoluis en kompateman kaj progreseman populiston".
Ame, Labore, kaj Vive". One was that The Huffington Post was always going to be free. There was never going to be a subscription model. Therefore, it had to be advertising sustained.
As soon as we had the scale, then we started selling advertising and doing a lot of innovations around advertising. Again, always keeping the Chinese Wall between content and advertising, but we had sponsor generated blogs clearly marked as sponsor generated blogs. John : Defend the model. Arianna : Yes, I think that the whole essence of this model is fair use. John : No, I know. We always needed to be linked, but tell me about that period.
Because it got pretty hostile during that period. Arianna : I think the hostility had a lot to do with blogs, too. I think their hostility was about not understanding where the world was going. It was a much deeper one that just about aggregation. Paul : We saw Andrew Sullivan yesterday, he […] confirmed that [he] blogged in the basement in his boxers. Paul : But it does imply that you stood on other shoulders, or blogging did, right?
What the aggregation piece did. So you built on top…. Arianna : Absolutely. I always made the point that I wanted The Huffington Post to be the best of the old and the best of the new.
It was never rejecting great journalism. Paul : Talk about how you went from one paid writer or new content to building a new staff and how you think about that. Where do you think that path goes? Arianna : The line has definitely crossed. We now have 1, stories, tens of thousands of bloggers and we are at the moment in six countries, and will be in Japan, Brazil, and Germany also before the year is out.
Arianna : 70 verticals. Now basically one of the changes for us was we went from one section, which was politics, news, but also culture, entertainment. We always mixed high brow and low brow. Now, we went to 70 to 80 sections, in that range, from weddings, divorce, all the lifestyle sections to culture and the arts, to black voices, Latino voices, et cetera. Basically covering everything that our readers might be interested in. But also having a very specific editorial stance.
All our lifestyle sections have been brought together under the theme of less stress, more living. We are prioritizing. Arianna : Actually, absolutely aligned. The persona of The Huffington Post is very clearly beyond left and right, is how we call it. We have been very critical of Obama for example, on drones, on Afghanistan, and not prioritizing job creation. We always look for where there are strange bedfellows, because they make our point which is that all the big issues of our time are not easily divisible into left or right.
John : You actively personally oversee, direct most of the political coverage, or the tenor of the political coverage? Is that Arianna Huffington? Arianna : Yeah, exactly. I hired them. I work with them all the time.
You confirmed that. So HuffPo…. Arguably even the portals tried it and only search worked to create both an audience loyalty and a business model. Arianna : I think what worked for us is being a pure player, being only online and…. Paul : Did that free you from other obligations, or did it force you to just innovate? Arianna : I think it, A, forced us to innovate constantly. John : We were wondering, is that web only?
Where does that air? Also, it works both 12 hours a day live, but also we take the best of what we saw every day and we put it as video pieces. Short video pieces all the around the site. To your question, I think being only online meant both had to be constantly innovating, but also that we prioritized engagement.
So our relationship with our readers was always at the center of what we were doing, it was not an afterthought. Which were then integrated in the next story and videos from the readers. That was always a big part of everything we did. Whether it was politics or how do you parent, or how do you get married with less stress.
It was all integrated. Paul : Do you think the audience engagement rather than aggregation was the key difference that worked, that helped it take off? Arianna : Definitely, I think audience engagement. Also the fact that we stayed on stories. We realized that one of the things that was different about the web was that traditional media would often break an important story on the front page, or the cover of Time, and then abandon it there and move onto another story. We stayed on stories.
Like our opposition to the war in Iraq. That was an obsession. We stayed on it, we developed it, we found new ways. Both new facts and new interesting views, etc. The same with Afghanistan or job creation. Then another part I think that has really helped is that we also believe it is the role of the media not just to put the spotlight on what is dysfunctional, but to put the spotlight on what is working.
John : You mentioned the Pulitzer. Beyond the obvious significance of that, in that you win the highest award in journalism for your efforts, which by the way magazines are not eligible for. But somehow The Huffington Post is, which is a sticking point with some magazine editors. John : Yeah, well, that argument has been made and not heard. Talk about what that meant to you personally and to your staff?
What does that say about what the mainstream traditional journalism community has decided about the state of blogging. It seems like a watershed event to me. Was it to you? Arianna : Yeah, it definitely was. In , the couple got divorced after 11 years of marriage, and in Michael Huffington revealed that he was bisexual.
Arianna was brought up in a one-bedroom apartment in Athens, Greece. She shared the fact that it was her mum who made her believe her that dreams were possible, it was her mother who made Arianna believe she could aim for the stars.
Her mother's trust in Arianna never shook away. Her deep love and care were crucial in Arianna realizing her full potential. As Arianna tells in her Huffington blog, her mother was the only one who believed in her when she went from Greece to London as a year-old to study at the prestigious Cambridge University.
Arianna managed to break the cliche against Greece working classes by the elites. Arianna moved to America and in married Texas oil billionaire Michael Huffington. She played a major role in his election to the United States House of Representatives in and in his failed bid for a Senate seat two years later. Looking for a job? Back to Profile.
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