The Huffington Post facts for kids
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| Foundation date | May 2005 |
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| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
| Founder(s) | Arianna Huffington Kenneth Lerer Jonah Peretti Andrew Breitbart |
| Key people | Arianna Huffington (editor-in-chief) Tim Armstrong (CEO) Roy Sekoff (editor) Anne Sinclair (French edition editor-in-chief) |
| Employees | 200+ |
| Parent | AOL |
| Slogan(s) | "The Internet Newspaper: News, Blogs, Video, Community" |
| Website | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ |
| Alexa rank | ▲ 98 (April 2013[update]) |
| Type of site | Political weblog |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available in | English, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese |
| Launched | May 9, 2005 |
| Current status | Active |
The Huffington Post is an American news website and political blog founded in 2005. On February 7, 2011, AOL announced it would acquire The Huffington Post for US$315 million.
The Huffington Post prints news stories and columns (called blogs) by celebrities, politicians, academics, and other well known people who have been invited to write for them.
The Huffington Post has around 25 million visitors each month and is the most well known political blog in the world. Der Spiegel calls The Huffington Post the most important source of information for millions of Americans.
Writers
The Huffington Post has both staff writers, and other individuals they have invited to write for them, from politicians and celebrities to academics and policy experts, who contribute on a wide range of topics. The term blog is used for columns written by both staff and invited columnists.
- Alec Baldwin
- Lawrence Bender
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
- Deepak Chopra
- Marc Cooper
- Bruce Cohen
- Richard Dawkins
- Alan Dershowitz
- Gary Hart
- Nicholas von Hoffman
- Jesse Jackson
- Alicia Keys
- Labrinth
- Yoko Ono
- Robert Reich
- Yoani Sánchez
- Al Sharpton
- Harry Shearer
- Sigourney Weaver
- Bradley Whitford
- Cenk Uygur
See also
In Spanish: HuffPost para niños
