A short history of the Huffington Post

Winning the Pulitzer Prize was only the latest from the Great Aggregator, Michael Shapiro writes in Columbia Journalism Review. Tracing its birth to a lunch in 2003, Shapiro explains how Arianna Huffington's web site managed to "surpass the traffic of virtually all the nation’s established news organizations and amass content so voluminous that a visit to the website feels like a trip to a mall where the exits are impossible to locate."

May 8, 2012

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