Huffington Post celebrated its 5th birthday on May 9th. Yes it’s hard to believe, but the hugely popular independent media site has only been around for 5 years.
It is truly amazing to see how quickly this website exploded. The independent blog receives over 10 million viewers every month. It’s up-to-date stories and diverse reporting has made the site incredibly popular with the younger, left leaning demographic. Huffington is often referred to as the counter to the right-leaning Drudge Report. Despite their comparisons, Huffington has become almost twice as popular than Drudge over the past 5 years.
Either way, both of these websites prove that there is an incredibly optimistic future for independent, web-based media. They both manage to produce the news that they want to cover, and they are incredibly successful in doing so. Hopefully we can expect 5 more prosperous years from Huffington.
Here’s a link to Robert Greenwald’s post on Huffington’s anniversary:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-greenwald/happy-birthday-huffington_b_569390.html
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