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Huffington Post Will Audition Wannabe Pundits For Streaming Video Site

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday July 10, 2012 @ 1:40pm PDTTags: Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post

Are you itching to become the next George Will, Keith Olbermann, or Michelle Malkin? Well, Arianna Huffington has a proposition for you tied to the launch of HuffPost Live 3,2,1…, an opinion site that goes live on August 13. Her AOL-owned company said today that it is inviting visitors to audition to become regular contributors by sending in videos “sounding off on what they are passionate about, what ticks them off, or what they’d like to see the network cover.” Those submitting the most “engaging” videos [not necessarily the most thoughtful or well argued ones, I guess] will be invited to to become regular guests. “HuffPost Live is all about engagement and making the HuffPost community an integral part of the dynamic, ongoing conversation that will be the heart and soul of the network,” Huffington says. “And we wanted to have a launch as innovative as the project itself, as opposed to a traditional top-down approach.” Does that mean viewers will vote on which pundits they want to see, sort of like American Idol? Uhhh, no. That will still be a traditional top-down decision by the editors. But the winners won’t come from the punditocracy. “People don’t want to be talked at any more; they want to be talked with,” says HuffPost Live President Roy Sekoff. “HuffPost Live” will live-stream 12 hours of original programming, five days a week from studios in New York and Los Angeles, with a satellite studio in Washington, DC.. It will show highlights overnight and on weekends.

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AOL’s Tim Armstrong Touts Patent Deal, But Slams NYT: Video

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Monday April 9, 2012 @ 8:26am PDTTags: AOL, Arianna Huffington, Big Deals Film, Big Deals TV, Tim Armstrong

Anchors on CNBC’s Squawk Box joked about how quickly the AOL chief executive made it to their studios to crow about this morning’s $1.1B patent deal with Microsoft — which sent AOL shares soaring. “This is not a home run. It’s a grand slam,” Armstrong says promising to … Read More »

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AOL And Huffington Post To Launch Streaming News Service

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday February 2, 2012 @ 1:42pm PSTTags: AOL, Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post Media Group

If you’re already overwhelmed by the amount of online video, just wait: AOL will introduce its ad-supported HuffPost Streaming Network on the Web this summer with 12 hours of original news and commentary each weekday — rising to 16 … Read More »

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BREAKING: AOL Buys The Huffington Post For $315M; Deal Signed At Super Bowl XLV; What Happens To AOL’s Apolitical Image?

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday February 6, 2011 @ 9:23pm PSTTags: Arianna Huffington, HuffPo, Online News, The Huffington Post, Tim Armstrong

AOL will pay $300 million of the pricetag in cash, and the rest in stock. Buying the 5-year-old primarily liberal political news aggregator will be AOL’s biggest acquisition since it split from Time Warner in 2009. Below is a press release … Read More »

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No Pellicano Jury Verdict After First Week (…But You Can Judge This Letter)

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday May 9, 2008 @ 7:21pm PDTTags: Allison Hope Weiner, Arianna Huffington, Courts, Hollywood, HuffPo, Law, Media, Pellicano, Pellicano Jury, Scandal

The jury in the federal trial of Hollywood P.I. Anthony Pellicano and 4 co-defendants still hasn’t reached a decision after its first full week of deliberating. In the meantime, I thought you’d want to see this letter about Bert Fields (left, arriving at … Read More »

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Tim Russert Blackballing Arianna At NBC?

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday April 29, 2008 @ 3:54pm PDTTags: Arianna Huffington, Books, Journalism, LA Weekly, NBC, Networks, Politics, TV

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UPDATE: Sources close to Arianna Huffington are claiming just that. Arianna Huffington is currently on book tour for her new political tome Right Is Wrong: How The Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded The Constitution, And Made Us All Less Safe, in which she goes after Tim Russert … Read More »

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