Steve Stoute Launches New Video Series “The Tanning Effect” With The Huffington Post
Steve Stoute, the former music executive, responsible for many advertising campaign collaborations such as Justin Timberlake and McDonald’s for the fast food chain’s “I’m Loving It” campaign and LeBron James’s partnership with State Farm, is launching a new video series with AOL HuffPost Media Group. The new web series is called “The Tanning Effect.” The Tanning Effect [...]
Read MoreComing to Terms With the Minority High Tech Employment Gap
Co-founder of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) , David Honig blogs about the current issues minorities face with employment in technology on Huffington Post. The aftershocks of the massive economic earthquake that was the Great Recession continue to reverberate, sometimes violently, across the United States. The unemployment rate, especially within communities of color, [...]
Read MoreAOL Cuts 900 Jobs After $315 Million Purchase of Huffington Post
AOL will cut 200 jobs in the U.S. and 700 in India said CEO Tim Armstrong Thursday at the Bloomberg Media Summit in New York City. Armstrong says that AOL’s staff is moving toward 70% editorial and other content divisions. They are also moving to having less freelancers and more full-time staff. The Huffington Post [...]
Read More$315 Million Huffington Post Acquisition Closed After One Month
It was only a month ago that AOL agreed to acquire the Huffington Post for $315 million. Now, the deal has been finalized. Arianna Huffington is officially President and Editor in Chief of what is now called the Huffington Post Media Group: “a leading source of news, opinion, entertainment, community, and digital information.” This group [...]
Read MoreOpinion: Why The Huffington Post’s Global Black Section Won’t Work
Last month, the Huffington Post announced that it will be launching a new section of its website for African Americans called: The Huffington Post Global Black. This move is no surprise, considering how other news organizations have already expanded into this arena, including The Washington Post that already has “The Root” and NBC that has “The Grio.” [...]
Read MoreAOL Acquires The Huffington Post for $315 Million
Following their strategy to become the premier content network with local, national, and international reach, AOL has agreed to acquire the Huffington Post for $315 million, approximately $300 million of which will be paid in cash funded from cash on hand. Founded in 2005, The Huffington Post currently sees about 25 million unique visitors per [...]
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