The story and evolution of the Huffington Post

1. Sergio Ibarnegaray María Alejandra Gómez

2. History When blogs were not very popular a woman had an idea: she wanted to put together news papers and technology in the same place: in blogs = world of information in blogs. After five years her website, The Huffington Post was the most frequented place in internet before the New York Times. Each month she gets around 12 millions of users and 3 millions of commentaries.

3. The Huffington Post creator is Arianna Huffington, who started the company whit 500 bloggers, people specialized in different topic. Nowadays she is working whit 6000 bloggers. At first she thought that the most important topics in mass medias were politics and cultural topics, but by the time she discovered that those topics were not the most demanded. However, for Ariana, the traffic in her website is not the most important fact, the most important fact is the relationship between users and journalism. The Huffington Post Thinks that the future of mass medias are online. Also believes that the journalism have to be created by citizens.

4. Why is it a social news media? The Huffington Post is an online news paper, also is an blog aggregator of news. Brings information from different founts and columnists. The site gives information about politics, business, mass media, entertainment, fashion, international news and humor. Nowadays the site has different local versions such as HuffPost Chicago and HuffPost New York.

5. HowDoesitWork TheHuffington Post has over 3000 bloggers, thatincludesfrompoliticianstocelebrities. Betweentheese are BarackObama, Hillary Clinton, Madonna, Robert Redford and many more. Thenews are uploadedbybloggerswho can writeaboutanything.

6. Social News Site A social newssiteistheonewhereuserssubmittherestories, and they are rankedbypopularity. TheHuffignton Post has a space por social news, wheresubscriberssendtherestories, and thepeople in the media slectthem.

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