AOL Profits Sag, But Wall Street Loves Them Anyway

February 1, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 1 week ago

Higher ad revenue helps slow AOL's revenue decline and pushes the company past Wall Street's forecasts

  

Huffington Post Preps Online Streaming Network

January 18, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 3 weeks ago

Site will cover everything from breaking news to editorial meetings

  

Parents Naming Kids After Arianna Huffington? Could Steve Jobs or Gaddafi Be Next?

January 5, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 5 weeks ago

Forbes' Jeff Bercovici discovered an unexpected trend

  

AOL's Patch Lost How Much Money?

December 16, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 7 weeks ago

Business Insider's Nicholas Carlson says $100M

  

Arianna Gives AOL TV a HuffPost Makeover

December 14, 2011 By Joshua L. Weinstein 8 weeks ago

Jaimie Etkin, former associate culture editor for Newsweek and The Daily Beast will run the rebranded site

  

Business Insider Grows the Way of the Huffington Post

November 3, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 14 weeks ago

The two sites have plenty in common -- from heavy aggregation to sensational headlines to fast-driving growth

  

'SNL': Zuckerberg, Huffington, Murdoch, Hastings Talk Steve Jobs in Un-Aired Skit (Video)

October 25, 2011 By Kimberly Potts 15 weeks ago

"SNL" cast play other media executives remembering Jobs on "Charlie Rose"

  

Fidelity Investments Slashes Ownership Stake in AOL

October 11, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 17 weeks ago

The firm had just upped its stake in July

  

Former TechCrunch Columnist Starts New Venture -- With AOL's Money

September 23, 2011 By Tim Kenneally 19 weeks ago

Paul Carr quit in protest over his old boss's actions -- but he doesn't mind taking company's cash

  

Arianna Huffington at TheGrill: Growth Not Waylaid by AOL Troubles (Video)

September 22, 2011 By Tim Kenneally 20 weeks ago

Plus, the word on a Yahoo merger, the future of Patch and why Michael Arrington had to go

  

TheGrill 2011: The Panels, the Power Brokers & the Parties

September 22, 2011 By Wrap Staff 20 weeks ago

Power brokers convened on TheGrill, the second annual media conference put on by TheWrap, Sept. 19-20

  

TheGrill 2011: Conversations on the Future of the Entertainment Industry (Slideshow)

September 21, 2011 By Cindy Kaplan 20 weeks ago

Industry leaders convened at TheGrill to discuss the rapidly changing media business

  

AOL and Yahoo: Fingers in the Dike

September 20, 2011 By Michael Stroud 20 weeks ago

Both companies seem reduced to saving their businesses, not innovating -- and that’s a recipe for failure in today's lightning-fast tech cycle.

  

Arianna Huffington at TheGrill: Growth Not Waylaid by AOL Troubles

September 20, 2011 By Daniel Frankel 20 weeks ago

Plus, the word on a Yahoo merger, the future of Patch and why Michael Arrington had to go

  

Mutiny on the TechCrunch? First Writer Resigns Post-Arrington Ouster

September 16, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 20 weeks ago

One of the site's columnists resigns, claims Arianna Huffington and new editor cut a deal to undermine Arrington and others

  

TechCrunch-AOL-Michael Arrington Dispute Comes Down to the Staff

September 9, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 21 weeks ago

TechCrunch's founder is apparently headed out the door, but how many of his foot soldiers will remain?

  

HuffPo Joins the eBook Game

September 7, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 22 weeks ago

Based on blogging by Arthur Delaney, it focuses on those affected by the economic crisis

  

NYT Says AOL/TechCrunch 'Comically Crossed Journalistic Lines' With New VC Fund

September 5, 2011 By Daniel Frankel 22 weeks ago

AOL editorial chief Arianna Huffington says Michael Arrington is no longer on the editorial payroll, but the blustery blogger insists "I am TechCrunch, and TechCrunch is me"

  

HuffPo Loses Editor: Is Old Media Culture Clash to Blame?

August 11, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 26 weeks ago

How deep is the friction at Arianna Huffington's site between those with backgrounds in traditional journalism and the New Breed?

  

AOL Announces $250M Stock Buyback Plan After Shares Plummet

August 11, 2011 By Tim Molloy 26 weeks ago

CFO: "We believe this is a unique opportunity to invest in our company."

  

News Corp. Scandal Transforms British Power List, Topped by Americans

July 25, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 28 weeks ago

Murdochs fall, government officials gain and American new media entrepreneurs dominate the top

  

NY Times' Bill Keller Drops Magazine Column

July 25, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 28 weeks ago

The soon-to-depart executive editor will also switch from a magazine column to op-ed after an unusual stint in the weekly magazine

  

Arianna Huffington: ‘Our Traffic is Not Down,’ But AOL Favors Cash

June 13, 2011 By Sharon Waxman 34 weeks ago

“Our traffic is not down despite the fact that we’ve had preexisting deals that have ended,” Huffington told TheWrap

  

Arianna Huffington Railroaded HuffPo Board for 'Bag of Gold,' Forbes Claims

June 7, 2011 By Brent Lang 35 weeks ago

The Huffington Post-AOL merger is looking rocky, and the new media pioneer is only in it for herself

  

Jill Abramson Won't Wage War on Arianna Huffington

June 3, 2011 By John Sellers 35 weeks ago

Freshly minted New York Times executive editor calls Huffington "inventive" during CNN interview

  

AOL Profits Plummet 86% During First Quarter, But CEO is Undeterred

May 4, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 40 weeks ago

Revenues fall, advertising slides, but display ads grew for the first time since 2007 -- "an important milestone in the turnaround," CEO Tim Armstong says

  

Sean Penn Laughs, De Niro Kisses: A Weekend Party Report

May 1, 2011 By Mikey Glazer 40 weeks ago

Goings-on from Tribeca to the White House Correspondents Dinner

  

The Huffington Post Poaches Another New York Times Reporter

April 25, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 41 weeks ago

Tom Zeller, the paper's energy reporter, jumps to AOL/HuffPo as senior reporter, energy and environment

  

Sony, Viacom, DirecTV: Battles for Survival Batter the Media Landscape

April 19, 2011 By Johnnie L. Roberts 42 weeks ago

Producers, distributors, aggregators and tech enablers are now pitted in momentous clashes, with tens of billions of dollars at stake

  

Tasini Calls Critics of His Lawsuit Against the Huffington Post 'Bootlickers'

April 15, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 42 weeks ago

But ex-unpaid HuffPo blogger admits his case is "novel" and relies on "some creative thinking" by a couple smart young lawyers

  

Arianna Blasts Blogger Lawsuit: 'Offensive,' 'Utterly Without Merit'

April 14, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 43 weeks ago

Huffington says she has emails from Tasini "extolling virtue and value" of blogging for site

  

Why Tasini's Blogger Lawsuit Against the Huffington Post Makes No Sense

April 12, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 43 weeks ago

Arianna is right: it's absurd to compare work of HuffPo's paid journalists with unpaid contributors