Betsy Morgan

BoomTown Interviews Arianna, Ken and Eric About Huffington Post Exec Changes: BAM!!

Kara Swisher in News on June 15, 2009 at 6:18 pm PT

Apparently, if you want to think about the growth of the Huffington Post as a culinary dish, perhaps today’s replacement of CEO Betsy Morgan with longtime online media powerhouse Eric Hippeau might appear under the Emeril Lagasse cooking cliché: Let’s kick it up a notch! Both co-founders of the online media site, Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer, said as much in interviews I did with them–as well as Hippeau–this afternoon. “The deal is that we simply have been growing so fast that we needed more firepower to accelerate in expanding the site and monetizing it,” said Huffington, who is also editor-in-chief of the news site.

New York Times to the Web: Careful With Our Copy!

Peter Kafka in Media on March 2, 2009 at 2:20 pm PT

The New York Times says Web publishers are increasingly worried about aggregators who hoover up their stories. I can think of one publisher who has been acting that way–the New York Times.

Here's the Official HuffPost $25 Million Funding Press Release

Kara Swisher in News on December 1, 2008 at 4:06 am PT

Here’s the official press release from the popular news and blogging site, The Huffington Post, which announced $25 million in funding from Oak Investment Partners this morning. Sources told BoomTown the investment gives the site, which had 4.5 million unique visitors in September, a quadrupling from a year ago, a valuation of “south of $100 million.”