Huffington Post Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington and Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth: The Full D7 Session
by Kara Swisher
Posted on July 7, 2009 at 12:20 PM PT
It’s an opportune time to see this interview, in which Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth and Huffington Post Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington talked about the future of the news media.
The pair were interviewed at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference only a month before Weymouth landed in hot water for trying to organize an off-the-record gathering of D.C. power players and journalists at her house, underwritten by sponsors.
In the interview, Weymouth discussed the struggles the Post–one of the nation’s most prestigious newspapers–has had of late as the Internet pummels its business model.
One of those hammers has been Huffington, whose site has grown like gangbusters, led by its political blogs and aggregation. Though not regularly profitable, it recently got a huge slug of funding to keep up the competition.
The pressure was apparent last week when Weymouth got in trouble for offering the exclusive sessions–although the controversial marketing flyer about it went out by mistake, before her approval or that of the Post newsroom.
Here’s the video of the full D7 interview:
Comments
I am still baffled at Huffington Post popularity. It seems they have done a great job helping Google to find them on the web for all sorts of things!
Posted by David Robins at July 8th, 2009 at 4:24 am