Huffington Post’s new Investigative Fund

This is exciting! Huffington Post launched a new experiment yesterday- an Investigative Fund for journalism. The idea is that “This nonprofit Fund will produce a wide-range of investigative journalism created by both staff reporters and freelance writers”. As Arianna Huffinton writes: For too long, whether it’s coverage of the war in Iraq or the economic … Continue reading →

Read what Barack Obama and John McCain are reading

Do you want to see what the American presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are reading? Use this new tool from Google, Power Readers in Politics. The articles they are sharing are of course carefully selected, just as press releases and commercials are, but still, this is interesting. You can also follow other pundits, … Continue reading →

Behind the scenes at the Huffington Post

Huffington Post is one om my favorite web sites/blogs (and right now, it’s filled with Obama victory news), and I’ve been amazed by the way Arianna Huffington has built up the site since 2005. I wrote about the site when it went live in 2005, and since then, it has more or less skyrocketed. Now, … Continue reading →