The Huffpost is the news opinion and blog website founded in 2005. It is owned by AOL online service provider company, also is a part of Verizon Media. One of its major founders is Arianna Huffington, who is a Greek-American author and business woman. She was a popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, after which, in the late-1990s, she offered liberal points of view in public, while remaining involved in business endeavors. Obviously, her liberal point of view on politics and media affected the fundamental spirit of the Huffpost.
One of the major achievements of the Huffpost is that it’s the first commercially run United States digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer. The Pulitzer-winning story is a 10-part series about wounded veterans, Beyond the Battlefield, covered by the senior military correspondent David Wood of the Huffpost. It is a series on the American troops severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. It won the national reporting in 2012. It was published on Politics section in 2011.
Because it demonstrated that collecting headlines from many sources can be a service that many readers appreciate. Since the Huffington Post was established, many other sites have popped up to aggregate news in technology, media, sports and other topics, and a boutique industry of news aggregation has risen and prospered. The rise of the Huffpost gave birth to a boutique industry of news aggregation.
At the same time, The philosophy of embracing the fact that ideas can come from anywhere in an organization, really inspires the later news and blog websites.
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