HuffPost
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HuffPost
Type of site
News and opinionAvailable in
- English
- French
- Greek
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Spanish
Founded May 9, 2005
Headquarters
770 Broadway,
New York City
,
United States 10003
[1]
Owner AOLCreated by
Editor Lydia PolgreenParent Verizon MediaURL www.huffpost.comAlexa rank
719 (March 2020)
[2]Commercial Yes
Registration Optional
Launched May 9, 2005; 14 years ago
Current status Active
HuffPost (formerly
The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated
HuffPo)
[3] is an American
news and opinion website and
blog, with localized and international editions. It is edited from a
left wing political perspective.
[4][5][6][7] It was founded in 2005 by
Andrew Breitbart,
Arianna Huffington,
Kenneth Lerer, and
Jonah Peretti.
[8][9] The site offers news, satire, blogs, and original content and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interests, and local news.
The Huffington Post was launched on May 9, 2005, as a commentary outlet, blog, and an alternative to news aggregators such as the
Drudge Report. On February 7, 2011,
AOL acquired
The Huffington Post for US$315 million, making Arianna Huffington editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group.
[10][11] The site later became part of
Verizon Media, a predecessor of which purchased AOL on May 12, 2015 for US$4.4 billion.
[12]
In July 2012,
The Huffington Post was ranked No. 1 on the 15 Most Popular Political Sites list by
eBizMBA Rank, which bases its list on each site's
Alexa Global Traffic Rank and U.S. Traffic Rank from both
Compete and
Quantcast.
[13] By March 2020, the HuffPost's Alexa ranking had declined to number 719.