In either case, as The Huffington Post moves into the end of its first decade, it's difficult not to see this moment as a test of its purpose and identity. "This is a complete fabrication."ĭEPENDING ON WHOM YOU ASK, The Huffington Post is either turning away from a relatively short-lived effort to pack the same heat as establishment media brands, or journalists recruited from establishment media brands ultimately didn't adjust to the site's continued growth and change. "No reporter at HuffPost has ever been told they were unproductive because they were taking time to do the work they were doing," Huffington added. referred to " two AOL-ers that had distressed babies." One of the employees turned out to be Goodman, who suggested to The New York Times the incident was not a factor in his resignation his wife is now working on a memoir. Huffington also pointed out that Goodman left not long after a controversial company conference call in which AOL's C.E.O. Peter, at his request, had shifted his focus to only overseeing original reporting and had, in the weeks before he left, hired three additional international reporters to do exactly the kind of 'deep reporting and quality writing' he mentions." Huffington dismissed the memo, telling Capital it "completely contradicts everything that Peter had said or emailed to me until then. They are looking for a clear signal that their work is valued and that the infrastructure will be maintained to engage in serious reporting. There is now palpable concern that this culture is no longer operative.
"I have protected the best writers from the manifestations of this, allowing them to focus on work that has garnered us awards and had genuine impact. "There is a widespread sense on the team that the HuffPost is no longer fully committed to original reporting that in a system governed largely by metrics, deep reporting and quality writing weigh in as a lack of productivity," he wrote in the memo, a portion of which Capital has seen. That Friday afternoon, the workers said they needed to get started right away, according to sources with knowledge of the exchange, so Goodman, whose title was executive business editor and global news editor, borrowed a nearby desk in the newsroom and composed his note to Huffington while watching the crew dismantle his digs. The same thing has been made of offices once occupied by Tim O'Brien (former executive editor), Mike Hogan (former executive entertainment editor), Lori Leibovich (former executive lifestyle editor) and Lisa Belkin (former senior columnist), who were among the various high-profile editors and reporters recruited by The Huffington Post-from outlets including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Vanity Fair and so on-amid its well-publicized coming of age in late 20, when AOL, in need of a media strategy, bought the site for $315 million and infused it with resources. The workmen had their own task to complete: turning Goodman's office into a conference room, or "huddle room," to borrow the Huffington Post parlance-apparently a much-needed commodity in the company’s open-concept floor-plan.
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