For-profit

Huffington Post (HuffPost)

Website:

www.huffingtonpost.com

Formation:

May 9, 2005

Founders:

Arianna Huffington

Andrew Breitbart

Kenneth Lerer

Jonah Peretti

Editor-in-Chief:

Lydia Polgreen

(formerly Arianna Huffington)

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HuffPost (until 2017, The Huffington Post3 The website capitalized on an army of left-of center unpaid bloggers, and early adoption of search-engine optimization techniques, and the rise of social media to become one of the most trafficked websites on the Internet.3 The site was originally started “in implicit opposition to President George W. Bush and aligned with the progressive movement”3 and operated by “pulling together liberal-leaning news reports, and as an alternative to conservative news aggregators.”16

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