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When Mayhill Fowler quoted Barack Obama and Bill Clinton saying things they'd never have said had they known she was in the press (sort of), her editors couldn't have been more pleased. But when Fowler pulled the same stunt on those editors, they were far less delighted.

Arianna Huffington likes to blast "the media" for getting distracted by silliness like the Balloon Boy story. But no one's more distracted, or distracting, than her own Huffington Post.

"I don't do predictions," said Arianna Huffington at a panel discussion Tuesday, although she actually does, quite enthusiastically. But perhaps she shouldn't, given her difficulty sticking to the facts of the present.

An online media maven is urging Americans to switch banks, and she wants her crusade to go viral. On the Huffington Post website, founder Arianna Huffington introduces what she calls the "move your money" campaign. The idea is to get Americans -- all Americans -- to close their accounts at big...

It's getting awfully hard to talk about the news business without talking about the Huffington Post. And that's just the way Arianna Huffington likes it. Twelve months ago, it was just possible to dismiss the impact of the celebrity-infested aggregation-and-blogging site with a supposition: HuffPo...

It's not quite The New York Times (NYT), but Rupert Murdoch could soon get control of another liberal journalistic institution -- unless he's all talk. At a Federal Trade Commission conference on the future of journalism Tuesday, Arianna Huffington (pictured) vowed to hand over her share of the...

Arianna Huffington and Oprah Winfrey have a lot in common: They're both on TV a lot, they both love Barack Obama, they're both full of advice for how you should live your life, they both endorse dubious medical theories, and so on. And, as of this week, they both have book clubs. But does...

Does Arianna Huffington think bloggers are journalists? The answer seems to change depending on what's most convenient for her at the moment. Kara Swisher at All Things D asked Huffington whether her news site, The Huffington Post, will face increased pressure to start paying its contributors as...

The Huffington Post is fond of calling itself "the internet newspaper." And it is like an increasing number of actual newspapers in one important regard: the direction of its cash flow. That would be out, not in. Yes, it turns out that, despite some early noises about crossing into the black --...

It's the hottest new media meme since lolcats: The internet is a leech, a louse, a bloodsucker -- a parasite. Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson recently described websites that use others' content to build their own traffic as "tech tapeworms as the intestines of the internet."...