David Wood - FishbowlNY http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny Turning the Page For New York Media Copyright 2013 Thu, 23 May 2013 21:00:19 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The Huffington Post Fetes iPad Magazine ‘Huffington.’ At New York Shindig

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The Huffington Post held a garden party to celebrate the launch of its new iPad magazine, “Huffington,” Last night. FishbowlNY was there at the Gramercy Park Hotel rooftop bar, along with a few hundred of Arianna Huffington‘s friends, staffers and a few famous faces.

We spotted Huffington Post Media Group editorial director Howard Fineman, Huffington Post editor Roy Sekoff, HuffPost’s Pulitzer Prize winning reporter David Wood and NBC News president Steve Capus in the crowd, among other well-dressed and well-heeled guests.

Huffington and Tim O’Brien, who is overseeing the venture for the company, made brief remarks:

“You may be asking ‘why a magazine?’ well the answer is that now The Huffington Post has 1,500 stories a day, about 70 to 80 of them original, and we found that we needed to pull the best, and put them in a beautiful setting like jewels, so that you could enjoy them when you had time over the weekend,” Huffington said. “It is the difference between a one-night stand and a long getaway weekend where you really get to know someone.”

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]]> Alex Weprin http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/the-huffington-post-fetes-ipad-magazine-huffington-at-new-york-shindig_b62219#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/the-huffington-post-fetes-ipad-magazine-huffington-at-new-york-shindig_b62219 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/?p=62219 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:29:29 +0000 The Huffington Post Wins First Pulitzer The Huffington Post, often blasted by critics for its use of aggregation, won its first Pulitzer Prize today. David Wood, HuffPo’s Senior Military Correspondent, won a National Reporting prize for his 10 part series, titled “Beyond The Battlefield.” Wood is a veteran journalist, but has only been with HuffPo for a few months.

Arianna Huffington and the rest of HuffPo’s staffers have got to be holding themselves back from gloating over the win, considering how much the site has been attacked for being nothing more than slideshows and over-aggregation. Natually, Huffington took the high road:

We are delighted and deeply honored by the award, which recognizes both David’s exemplary piece of purposeful journalism and HuffPost’s commitment to original reporting that affects both the national conversation and the lives of real people. From the beginning, one of the core pillars of HuffPost’s editorial philosophy has been to use narrative and storytelling to put flesh and blood on data and statistics, and to help bear witness to the struggles faced by millions of Americans.

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]]> Chris O'Shea http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/the-huffington-post-wins-first-pulitzer_b58135#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/the-huffington-post-wins-first-pulitzer_b58135 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/?p=58135 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:44:45 +0000 The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes Winners Announced The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes in journalism have been unveiled. Below is a list of the winners. Congrats to all.

Public Service: The Philadelphia Inquirer

Breaking News Reporting: The Tuscaloosa News staffers

Investigative Reporting: Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley, The Associated Press. Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong, The Seattle Times

Explanatory Reporting: David Kocieniewski, The New York Times

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]]> Chris O'Shea http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/the-2012-pulitzer-prizes-winners-announced_b58116#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/the-2012-pulitzer-prizes-winners-announced_b58116 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/?p=58116 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:13:02 +0000