#lydia is on team fox she's too good not to include

[thotpuppy]

sorry i just gotta be back on my bull shit for a minute just- Stiles as a phantom thief. Stiles as the good boy son of Interpol's top detective, making waves and looking to be just as good a detective as his father, maybe even better, attending one of the most prestigious Uni's for criminal justice in the world. (google it idk) And the only criminal his father has never managed to catch is (idk cool phantom thief names, the red fox or smth) but after she disappeared years ago, the case truly ran cold, and was considered closed. until a copycat Red Fox appears. He's stealthy, cunning, nobody knows where he came from or who he is, and just like the Red Fox before him, he always returns whatever it is he stole, a short time later, with a note. of course this becomes a serial sensation overnight! the new fox has only struck once and people are climbing out of every gutter imaginable to try and say there's no way this newbie could be as good, its impossible, and even Detective Stilinski thinks its only a matter of time before the elusive fox is captured. Little does he know, the new red fox is his son.

and not only that, but the former Red Fox was his late wife, who somehow managed to secret away her gadgets and documents detailing her exploits, so when he turned 18, Stiles could inherit them. They don't steal for money, or glory, though of course they both relish it. But the truth of it is that, between smaller jobs, they're working to take down the largest criminal organization in the world. a secret society of rare artifact hunters that operate globally, and often with or beside law enforcement. That's why the Red Fox has to be a thief, and why whoever takes down the Argent Hunters has to operate "alone". of course, Stiles takes that to be mostly subjective. He works with a close-knit team of allies all over the world, each with a certain set of skill that comes in handy, as long as he can figure out how to utilize them properly. His mother spent her entire life dedicated to putting an end to the Argents' crimes. Stiles will make sure the job is finished.

[luulapants]

Digging into the Teen Wolf credits

So I fell into a bit of a rabbit hole researching the shift in writing and directing credits in Teen Wolf, trying to find some explanations for the lack of continuity, whiplash change of directions on storylines, and the messiness of the later seasons. A lot of people (myself included) tend to focus on casting issues and Jeff Davis as the be-all-end-all of these issues, but here are a few interesting things I’ve put together:

1. Waning involvement from the original producers/directors - 

Russell Mulcahy was a producer/exec on all 100 episodes and directed 39 episodes, including every season finale and all but one season premier (5a). He was a big-shot music video director in the ‘80s. According to his Wikipedia, “Mulcahy's work is recognisable by the use of fast cuts, tracking shots and use of glowing lights, neo-noir lighting, windblown drapery, and fans.”

Tim Andrew came on as a supervising producer and progressed to executive producer, holding a producing credit for all 100 episodes. He directed 35 episodes, including some of fan-favorite suspense episodes like Night School, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, and Riddled.

While their producer credits stayed steady, it’s the director credits that interest me. Between the two of them, they directed 75% of S1, 100% of S2, 83% and 75% of 3a and 3b. S4, it drops to 58%. Back up to 70% and 90% for 5a and 5b, then plummeting to 60% for all of S6. It’s worth noting that S4 is the first season where we start to notice that whiplash effect, not really sure what characters’ motivations are. In one episode, the focus seems to be family financial drama, and then we forget about that and focus on Lydia’s powers. Then the focus is assassins, then Kate Argent - and what the hell is up with Peter?

It’s hard to say for sure, but one could draw the conclusion that the decline in director credits from Andrew and Mulcahy also suggest a decline in interest from them in maintaining the show’s storylines.

In fact, in 5b and season 6, you see a third long-time producer, Joseph Genier, step in to direct a few episodes: the rather sloppy Maid of Gevaudan, Blitzkrieg, and Genotype. We can’t give him too hard a time over it, since his only other directing experience ever was a 2016 Netflix horror movie The Secrets of Emily Blair, shitty even by Netflix standards. He also has some late-season writing credits, but we’ll get to that later.

2. The curious case of Angela Harvey - 

In order to understand the writing on TW, you need to know Angela Harvey. She climbed the ranks from personal assistant to writers’ assistant, then, starting in 3a, staff writer.

A staff writer is a salaried, stable figure in the writing department, who works with what is often a rotating door of producers and head writers. They’re usually not the “ideas” person and don’t get the final say, but they help the head writer work through the story and stay on track. Most larger shows have a whole team of staff writers. TW never had more than one at a time.

Shortly after her promotion to staff writer, Harvey got her first full writing credit for Frayed, which is a controversial episode! It’s both praised and detested for the non-linear storyline, the sometimes confusing flashbacks, and Allison’s emotional hallucination of her mother.

After that, she went back to staff writer and was a rock for the show for all of S3 and 4. In S4, she got full writing credit for I.E.D. and Time of Death. Both got mixed reviews on-par with the rest of the muddled mess of S4, but I will note one thing: the human factor. I.E.D., for me, was the first episode that really gave a more rounded picture of Liam, who until that time felt very much like a new puppy coming in to replace our favorite old dogs that went to live on the big farm in the sky.

S5, Harvey gets a promotion to ‘story editor,’ which is pretty much just a title and pay promotion. She wrote A Novel Approach and Strange Frequencies, two more mixed-bag sort of episodes with some golden moments and some crippling larger-story issues. Then she writes the slightly stronger The Sword and the Spirit and... 

Gone. She vanishes from the credits for the rest of season 5. I haven’t been able to find any specific explanations, but I did find a rather telling quote from her in an article about how black writers get hired but not promoted in TV:  “I repeated staff writer four times,” she said.

Harvey then returns for 6x2 with a shiny new title: executive story editor. I can only draw one conclusion from this sequence of events, which is a contract dispute. Harvey demanded a promotion (as she should have, given her longevity on the show!), was denied, and walked off. The show floundered in her absence and begged her back with the new title.

She got full writer credits for two more episodes for S6 but left the show for good after the second, After Images.

To me, it seems clear that they had a strong, stable voice in Angela, but her commitment to the project waned as she realized that the show had no commitment to her. She may not have been the strongest head writer, but she was an essential core, a beating heart of the show. Her contributions were undervalued and, ultimately, the show suffered because of it.

3. The rotating door of writers - 

It’s not unusual for head writers to come and go on shows. Then again, most shows have a stable core in the writers’ room to host those head writers. TW had Jeff Davis, who has frequently been acknowledged to be overly hands-on with the writing (even in episodes he did not take writing credit for), and a single staff writer: Angela Harvey and, before her, Andy Cochran (who was staff writer for S2).

S1 did not have a staff writer, but that was because Jeff had a very firm grip on the story and also because there were only four writers other than Jeff Davis (and the original Teen Wolf movie writers). Interestingly, none of those 4 writers ever returned to the show after S1. This would become a theme for TW writers.

Jeff kept even tighter control on S2, writing 8 of 12 episodes with the help of Cochran. Other than them, there were four other writers, two of whom were a writing team.

Jeff wrote 15 of 24 S3 episodes and brought in 6 new writers and one S2 writer, Christian Taylor who also produced and directed. Of the new writers, only Ian Stokes, who wrote The Fox and the Wolf would become a regular writer afterward (though Alyssa Clark did write two more episodes in S4). Stokes wrote three S4 episodes and three for 5a.

Jeff wrote 6 of 12 episodes in S4, 5 of 10 in 5a, 4 of 10 in 5b, and then did not write again until the series finale.

Starting in Season 4, the writing credits are all over the place. Most writers come in for a single episode and never again. The few notable exceptions are:

Eric Wallace, a later seasons producer

Will Wallace (not sure if related) who was a writers’ assistant that seems to have been randomly granted writing credit for 5a’s Ouroboros, despite having no other writing credits to his name previously. He got writing credit for 4 other episodes in S5 and S6, plus a random staff writer credit for 6a’s Ghosted. 

Lindsay Sturman, a lalter seasons producer who now writes and produces for Supergirl. 

And producer Joseph Genier who, as he had been allowed to direct later seasons with no previous directing credits, was also allowed head writer credit with no previous writing credits.

What can we divine from this? Chaos, honestly. An inability to resist the uninformed and careless whims of the producers. The lack of lower-level writing staff, who are usually the ones there to give stability and cohesion to the story, meant that every new writer brought in new and contradictory ideas of what the story was about and where it should go. Looking at these credits, I can’t tell if the problem was that everyone wanted to write and writing spots were being given as thank-yous in exchange for producers laying down money or if they had such a difficult time finding quality writers willing to work in that environment that producers had no choice but to step in and write as well as they could given a lack of resources.

4. The vanishing first assistant director - 

Compared to the other issues, this one seems minor. However, it seems like TW gave up on the position of ‘first assistant director’ at some point. This position is essentially the right hand of the director, making sure that set runs smoothly and the director has everything they need. 

James J.D. Taylor held the position for 50 episodes, including all but 4 episodes in S1-3a. In the first 3, Jeffrey January filled in. For the fourth, Eric Sherman, who would come to be Taylor’s backup, it seems. For 3b and the first half of S4, Sherman and Taylor traded off every other episode. Taylor tried his hand at directing for S4′s Monstrous, at which point Sherman started trading off episodes with Matt Rawls.

Taylor went back to first assistant director for S5, but intermittently and with no backup for his position. 8 of 20 episodes in 5a had no first assistant director. Taylor directed 6x2 and was first assistant for 6x4 and 6x5, but 17 of 20 episodes of S6 had no first assistant. 

Sure, there were second assistant and second second assistants, but it seems very odd to neglect such a pivotal position. What is especially baffling is that 6b had first-time directors Tyler Posey, Linden Ashby, and Joseph Genier all working without a first assistant director. To me, this speaks to staffing issues and difficulty organizing a show that was clearly on its last legs.

In summary -

Where the early seasons had focused attention and investment from the original core producers, directors, and the show runner, clearly their attention and care for the project waned over time. They failed to promote the show’s most valuable workers and failed to bring in lower-level staff to do the grunt work in the writers’ room. Instead, they pulled in more and more higher level executives, who tend to have lofty ideas about where a show goes but no willingness to dig into the nitty gritty details. Film schools could make a study of Teen Wolf: “How to run a show into the ground.”

[hermywolf]

ranking my favorite characters about random shit part 2

ranking my favorite characters (clarke griffin, dean winchester, fox mulder, rose tyler, newt, kaz brekker, samwise gamgee, charles xavier, bill denbrough, lord asriel, steve rogers, scott mccall, anna milton and barry berkman) about random shit. this is entirely self-indulgent

PART 2 : how many allies do they have/how powerful are their allies. basically how screwed they’d be if they had to rely on their allies to survive

1- DEAN WINCHESTER

yeah believe it or not im putting him before charles or steve. listen, listen; dean just. does this thing. in which he’ll get pretty much anyone on his side after like two conversations. ESPECIALLY incredibly powerful supernatural creatures. i mean he’s got sam, aka the second best hunter on earth, and jack, literally GOD, on his side; then obviously the dean winchester simp squad, castiel, a seraph and commander of garrisons who can get heaven to fight for him; benny, a vampire; crowley, a powerful crossroad demon and the king of hell; amara, literally THE DARKNESS HERSELF, god’s SISTER; and then there’s just SO many others who will fight for him for diverse reasons, rowena, eileen, claire, jody, donna, kaia, mary, anna, gabriel, DEATH HIMSELF was his bitch before billie, then ketch charlie kevin, he’s just got so many allies and so many are some of the most powerful creatures in the universe. i mean, jack, amara and gabriel alone are three of the most powerful beings who have ever existed, as well as billie and the other archangels but all of them are dead, and chuck but he’s also dead and even he would be on dean’s side since dean is his favorite and if it’s an actual life-threatening situation chuck would want the show to keep going. so yeah dean winchester’s got the biggest defense squad imaginable and honestly? good for him, he deserves it

2- CHARLES XAVIER

do i even have to say it? outside of his ability to. you know. literally control minds, he’s also a leader who inspires loyalty and trust, and he’s got all the x-men fighting for him, including jean and logan - and even if we’re being honest some of the brotherhood, i mean especially in the first class timeline, erik and raven would absolutely be on his side. he’s got some of the most powerful mutants of all time ready to fight for his life

3- STEVE ROGERS

I mean he’s the leader of the avengers, man. have you seen the avengers assemble scene? they were fighting against thanos there but don’t try to tell me all of them wouldn’t fight for him. he’s got the falcon, black widow and the winter soldier on his side as well as the SCARLET WITCH, CAPTAIN MARVEL, THOR, do i need to keep going. he’s got a huge reputation and everyone knows and trusts him. and as we can also see in all his movies he inspires loyalty and devotion easily so even with people he doesn’t know he can get himself a loyal army in one well-delivered speech à la captain america

4- KAZ BREKKER

while most of the people on this list (steve, scott, charles, dean, bill, newt, anna) are born leaders who inspire trust and loyalty, kaz is just. really good at blackmail and insanely smart and cruel. and he’s got an insanely scary reputation too. he’s got the crows on his side no matter what, so an amazing spy, the best sharpshooter in ketterdam, a grisha who survived parem, an ex-drüskelle, and a demolition expert; as well as now the entirety of the dregs and inej’s crew, probably. plus, he most likely has leverage on the entirety of ketterdam and more. if he got in real trouble he could probably dig out the years and years of blackmail he got stacked away and get himself allyships with anyone he wants. plus his allies are ruthless, diverse and all strategically selected

5- SCOTT MCCALL

he’s got his entire pack ready to jump to help him anytime. and really when you think about it his pack is so big and diverse, there’s all kinds of creatures/skills ready to help him, plus he’s a true alpha, any werewolf would jump to his aid. I mean let’s look at his pack, stiles, allison, lydia, derek, malia, isaac, kira, hayden, mason, corey, and then of course stilinski, deaton, melissa, chris and peter, i mean even theo... he’s got a huge pack who is extremely loyal to him and they’re all kinds of creatures too, he’s fine

6- ROSE TYLER

everyone loves rose SO much. like obviously the doctor will give his life for her without hesitation but we also got jack, mickey, jackie, and even a bunch of people she met for like a couple episodes like donna or sarah jane immediately loved her. so i think she’s ultimately got some pretty solid allies especially with her father’s wealth and torchwood’s support in the alternate reality

7- CLARKE GRIFFIN

im putting her pretty down because on one hand he’s got very powerful/devoted allies on her side, like bellamy, lexa, roan, nyilah, finn, wells, etc (the key of getting your allies to be entirely devoted and loyal to you is to make at least half of them fall in love with you OR to top them so good they’ll literally put their lives down for you because of how good it was and clarke got that down to an art) BUT they’re also like. all dead. like almost all the people i just listed are dead so. yeah she’s kinda on her own in the end but if we look at early seasons clarke before literally all of them got murdered she had skaikru, azgeda and trikru pretty much in her pocket, so three of the biggest/most technically advanced armies on EARTH ready to fight for her.

8- LORD ASRIEL

now he doesn’t have actual allies per say but he can manage to get pretty much anyone on his side through charisma, threats and promises, so he ends up steadily getting massive support from witches, angels and many others in the books. he can pretty easily get himself a bunch of followers at his side ready to die for his cause.

9-SAMWISE GAMGEE

now listen he does have a pretty solid bunch of allies, aka the entire fellowship, who they, themselves, have a bunch of allies, who have a bunch of allies. i mean homeboi’s got ARAGORN and LEGOLAS and GANDALF on his side all ready to jump to save the tiny hobbits anytime so he’ll be fine.

10- BILL DENBROUGH

he’s immediately got the losers on his side, which is a win because they’re stubborn and annoying enough that they defeated an alien demonic clown. plus they’re quite literally assembled by a divinity to destroy a demon, so they’re the perfect team to kick ass and they’ll risk their lives for each other. plus he’s got a fanbase! people read his books and watch his movies. meaning he’s probably got a pretty big part of stan twt ready to help?? idk man i just think he’ll be fine when it comes to allies

11- NEWT

he’s got the entire glade ready to jump to his aid pretty much at any time, i mean let’s be honest if there’s one person all the gladers would agree on defending it would be.. ok it would be chuck bc he’s a CHILD but otherwise it’d be newt. plus he’s alby’s second in command and even gally likes him and respects him more than he likes and respects most people, which isnt much but hey kudos for the effort. anywho yeah the entire glade would defend him i think

12- ANNA MILTON

she would’ve once had the entirety of heaven at her commands ready to smite anyone who comes close to her but now that she fell and rebelled they all want her dead so. i mean i wish i could say cas would help her but after he betrayed her im not so sure? and the winchesters well idk either, maybe, maybe not, depends whether or not the entire trying-to-kill-sam ordeal happened. gabriel might help her? idk where to put her because i don’t KNOW if cas, dean, gabriel or the angels would help her but if any of them did then even one of these is a pretty solid backup so. idk man

13- FOX MULDER

im only on season 4 but as far as i can see he’s got only scully. which is pretty solid backup, she can kick ass, but still. i guess it’s one of the downsides of everyone thinking you’re batshit insane and having the entire government out to get you because they all LOATHE YOUR GUTS SO MUCH

14- BARRY BERKMAN

I mean dude. he pretty much kills all his friends. like he could ask for chris’s help but umm well he killed him, if he’s in a bad situation oh great he’s got a friend at the police except NO he murdered her. what’s that? fuches? no barry’s literally trying to murder him as of now. sally wouldn’t help him at all. cousineau just found out barry murdered his gf. at MOST he can hope that noho hank will help but i mean he’s not much help tbh i love the guy but he’s kinda useless<3

[marvelousmatt]

Matt Berry on his role as a Victorian detective in star-studded new comedy, Year Of The Rabbit

Tess Lamacraft

Wed, June 5 3:59pm

Actor and musician, Matt Berry gives us the lowdown on his new C4 comedy, Year Of The Rabbit and reveals the fun he had working alongside a host of famous faces including Keeley Hawes and Jill Halfpenny....

BAFTA -winning actor, comedian and musician Matt Berry is best known for roles in C4 sitcoms The IT Crowd and Toast Of London and also for his distinctive voice which has been put to good use on countless voice-overs.

His latest role, set in the dark heart of Victorian London, sees him play Detective Inspector Rabbit, a hardened booze-hound who spends his days investigating murders along with his fresh-faced protogee, Strauss (Freddie Fox) and ambitious Mabel (Susan Wokoma).

The six-part series, written by Emmy Award-winners Andy Riley and Kevin Cecil, the team behind Veep, has a star-studded cast including Keeley Hawes, Paul Kaye, Alun Armstrong, Jill Halfpenny and Sally Phillips.

Here in an exclusive interview with What’s On TV, Matt Berry gives us the lowdown on the new comedy, the fun he had working with a host of famous faces, and reveals which classic TV shows inspired him….

WOTV: Where did the idea for the show come from?

Matt Berry: “This whole thing came about because the director, Ben Taylor (who directed C4 series Catastrophe) and I, have known eachother for years and Ben reminded me of the fact that we both love the 70s police show, The Sweeney. We thought it would be good if we could do something like that but as a comedy and then came the idea to set it in Victorian times. At first we thought it would be too expensive and no-one would want to do it. We nearly talked ourselves out of it but then we went, ‘F**k it, let’s see what happens!’ We made a pilot and things went from there.”

WOTV: How would you describe Rabbit?

MB: “He’s a senior policeman who’s working with his new colleague Strauss (Freddie Fox) and Mabel (Susan Wokoma), who is his boss’s daughter. Mabel is desperate to join the police force and quickly proves that she’s very capable. So the three of us end up as a team. They’re an unlikely group but that’s what I hope will it make it interesting.”

WOTV: What are the dynamics like between the three of them?

MB: “They’re  really tight-knit. It’s them against the rest of the world. Right from the start I wanted them to be like Del Boy and his family in Only Fools And Horses, or kind of like The Sweeney because John Thaw (who played DI Jack Regan) was always very caring of Dennis Waterman (DS George Carter) and I think that’s why you kept watching them. I didn’t want there to be a lot of arguing and shouting at eachother because that’s boring. You see their bond develop as the series goes along.”

WOTV: In terms of his Rabbit’s character traits, he’s a heavy drinker and also seems to have some health issues…

MB: “Yes he’s pretty unhealthy as you would be back then. Nobody in the show looks great apart from Strauss and Mabel. Everyone else looks like a strong curry would kill them! I think that’s how a lot of people did look in Victorian times. He’s also got a few heart problems. It packs up at the most inopportune times, either when he’s running about in the middle of a case or later in the series, during sex. A couple of swift punches to his chest usually sorts him out.”

WOTV: The real life character of John Merrick, best known as The Elephant Man is played by David Dawson (Ripper Street, Luther). Tell us about him…

MB: “In the show he’s a very powerful influence in the criminal underworld and he’s an informer for Rabbit. Normally in detective dramas you see a sergeant speaking to an informer on a football field or whatever, we’ve seen it a million times before and so we thought wouldn’t it be different if it was John Merrick. As one of our writers said, ‘He’s like a Victorian version of Huggy Bear from Starsky and Hutch’ because Huggy Bear was an informer too.”

WOTV: Paul Kaye plays, DI Tanner. He’s Rabbits adversary isn’t he

MB: “Yes, they’re bitter rivals. We find out later in the series why they hate eachother so much. Paul is great to work with, he’s born for this kind of stuff. I knew he’d relish this role and he is amazing as Tanner.”

WOTV: Tell us about some of the other guest stars…

MB: “Keeley Hawes plays Lydia who’s got a hidden agenda, she’s up to something but you’re not sure what in the first couple of episodes. You see her befriending Mabel. Jill Halfpenny plays Flora who is an ex of Rabbit’s and she comes back on the scene. She’s in the series later on and is a killer on a rooftop. Rabbit’s not sure whether he should be protecting her or not.”

WOTV: So do Rabbit and Flora get back together? Is she the one who makes his heart stop during sex?

MB: “Er yes…quite possibly (Laughing) Jill was brilliant. We’ve known eachother a long time and she was great fun to work with, as was everybody. We are lucky to have such an amazing cast.”

WOTV: Are we going to find out more about Rabbit’s past as the series progresses?

MB: “Well we learn early on that his mother drowned. His name is Rabbit because that was what was written on his forehead when he was found left outside a church. That’s his whole name. He’s got a sister called Weasel because that’s what was written on her head and a brother called Leopard. That’s pretty much all you know about his childhood!”

WOTV: What was filming like? There is so much action packed in, it must have been quite intense?

MB: “Yes,  there was a lot to fit in, we filmed in early January,  a lot of it at at Luton Hoo Estate where they film a lot of Victorian period dramas. It was absolutely freezing and was starting to get dark every day at about 3pm but actually that was perfect for us. The fact that there was a lot of half light and everyone had frozen breath made it all the more atmospheric. It wouldn’t have worked as well if we’d done it in August”.

Year of The Rabbit, starring Matt Berry, begins on Monday 10th June on C4 at 10pm.

[chpatdoorsl3z0a1]

The Huffington Post Is Now HuffPost

The Huffington Post ― the name displayed atop this site throughout its 12-year existence ― is no more. Welcome to HuffPost.

The official name change, Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen said in an interview Thursday, reflects “what our readers call us anyway.”

“Sometimes it’s a good idea just to embrace the name that your audience has chosen,” Polgreen continued. “It’s shorter, it’s snappier and gets us a more compact look.”

Changing the name across all 17 global HuffPost editions is part of an overhaul reflecting the vision of a new leadership team led by CEO Jared Grusd and Polgreen, who succeeded co-founder Arianna Huffington earlier this year. Polgreen is currently hiring journalists for top newsroom positions, including executive editor and political director. She’s now putting her stamp on the site visually, too. 

Still, Polgreen said the rebranding isn’t intended as a break with the site’s namesake. 

“Everything that HuffPost is today stands on the shoulders of what Arianna Huffington built,” she said. “So I think that it’s in no way meant to diminish or distance us from that legacy because we’re incredibly proud of it. But I think it’s just trying to catch up with the times and how people now think of us.”

In addition to a redesigned home page, which will continue to feature HuffPost’s trademark splash headline and image framing the biggest story of the moment, the site is rolling out shareable “splash cards” for HuffPost stories to further extend the brand across social media.

Polgreen said her ideal HuffPost splash is “a combination of a great headline and a great image that has an almost meme-like quality, which would be instantly shareable and always have the potential to go viral.”

She cited Wednesday’s splash for Bill O’Reilly’s stunning exit from Fox News, featuring the headline “Billy On The Street,” as an example of the site cleverly combining current events and pop culture. The splash was widely shared ― including by truTV host Billy Eichner.

Polgreen said key storytelling elements, such as emotion, humor and outrage, would be better reflected in the bold design changes. She described being inspired by “old-school, big-city tabloids,” which boisterously held the powerful to account and boasted a populist ethos that crossed class and ideological lines. In a memo earlier this year and in recent public appearances, Polgreen has expressed a desire to reach Donald Trump voters.

It’s an ambitious goal for a site conceived after the 2004 re-election of George W. Bush as a left-leaning alternative to the conservative Drudge Report. The site has evolved greatly, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting and an emphasis, under Huffington, on approaching issues beyond a traditional left-right framework. But Polgreen’s predecessor’s decisions to initially route most Trump campaign stories to the “Entertainment” section and later to add an editor’s note to each article branding the candidate a serial liar, racist and misogynist, would presumably be obstacles to reaching Trump voters.

The future of HuffPost also came up during Polgreen’s appearance Friday at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. During an interview segment, Polgreen said HuffPost would “be different” in the coming year and speak “to a much broader audience.” She acknowledged that HuffPost is associated with “liberal, left politics because it was born in that moment,” yet characterized the contemporary political climate as non-ideological. HuffPost, she said, is “fundamentally a populist brand rather than an ideological brand.”

In her interview Thursday, Polgreen tied the rebranding and design changes to a broader reimagining of the site’s mission in the wake of the presidential election. 

“It seems really clear to me that there’s a tremendous need, not just in the United States but globally, for a news organization that really speaks to the lives and needs of people who feel left out: left out of the conversations, left out of the power equations,” Polgreen said. “So HuffPost is really there to reach out and say, ‘We’re here for you.’”

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The Huffington Post Is Now HuffPost

The Huffington Post ― the name displayed atop this site throughout its 12-year existence ― is no more. Welcome to HuffPost.

The official name change, Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen said in an interview Thursday, reflects “what our readers call us anyway.”

“Sometimes it’s a good idea just to embrace the name that your audience has chosen,” Polgreen continued. “It’s shorter, it’s snappier and gets us a more compact look.”

Changing the name across all 17 global HuffPost editions is part of an overhaul reflecting the vision of a new leadership team led by CEO Jared Grusd and Polgreen, who succeeded co-founder Arianna Huffington earlier this year. Polgreen is currently hiring journalists for top newsroom positions, including executive editor and political director. She’s now putting her stamp on the site visually, too. 

Still, Polgreen said the rebranding isn’t intended as a break with the site’s namesake. 

“Everything that HuffPost is today stands on the shoulders of what Arianna Huffington built,” she said. “So I think that it’s in no way meant to diminish or distance us from that legacy because we’re incredibly proud of it. But I think it’s just trying to catch up with the times and how people now think of us.”

In addition to a redesigned home page, which will continue to feature HuffPost’s trademark splash headline and image framing the biggest story of the moment, the site is rolling out shareable “splash cards” for HuffPost stories to further extend the brand across social media.

Polgreen said her ideal HuffPost splash is “a combination of a great headline and a great image that has an almost meme-like quality, which would be instantly shareable and always have the potential to go viral.”

She cited Wednesday’s splash for Bill O’Reilly’s stunning exit from Fox News, featuring the headline “Billy On The Street,” as an example of the site cleverly combining current events and pop culture. The splash was widely shared ― including by truTV host Billy Eichner.

Polgreen said key storytelling elements, such as emotion, humor and outrage, would be better reflected in the bold design changes. She described being inspired by “old-school, big-city tabloids,” which boisterously held the powerful to account and boasted a populist ethos that crossed class and ideological lines. In a memo earlier this year and in recent public appearances, Polgreen has expressed a desire to reach Donald Trump voters.

It’s an ambitious goal for a site conceived after the 2004 re-election of George W. Bush as a left-leaning alternative to the conservative Drudge Report. The site has evolved greatly, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting and an emphasis, under Huffington, on approaching issues beyond a traditional left-right framework. But Polgreen’s predecessor’s decisions to initially route most Trump campaign stories to the “Entertainment” section and later to add an editor’s note to each article branding the candidate a serial liar, racist and misogynist, would presumably be obstacles to reaching Trump voters.

The future of HuffPost also came up during Polgreen’s appearance Friday at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. During an interview segment, Polgreen said HuffPost would “be different” in the coming year and speak “to a much broader audience.” She acknowledged that HuffPost is associated with “liberal, left politics because it was born in that moment,” yet characterized the contemporary political climate as non-ideological. HuffPost, she said, is “fundamentally a populist brand rather than an ideological brand.”

In her interview Thursday, Polgreen tied the rebranding and design changes to a broader reimagining of the site’s mission in the wake of the presidential election. 

“It seems really clear to me that there’s a tremendous need, not just in the United States but globally, for a news organization that really speaks to the lives and needs of people who feel left out: left out of the conversations, left out of the power equations,” Polgreen said. “So HuffPost is really there to reach out and say, ‘We’re here for you.’”

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The Huffington Post Is Now HuffPost

The Huffington Post ― the name displayed atop this site throughout its 12-year existence ― is no more. Welcome to HuffPost.

The official name change, Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen said in an interview Thursday, reflects “what our readers call us anyway.”

“Sometimes it’s a good idea just to embrace the name that your audience has chosen,” Polgreen continued. “It’s shorter, it’s snappier and gets us a more compact look.”

Changing the name across all 17 global HuffPost editions is part of an overhaul reflecting the vision of a new leadership team led by CEO Jared Grusd and Polgreen, who succeeded co-founder Arianna Huffington earlier this year. Polgreen is currently hiring journalists for top newsroom positions, including executive editor and political director. She’s now putting her stamp on the site visually, too. 

Still, Polgreen said the rebranding isn’t intended as a break with the site’s namesake. 

“Everything that HuffPost is today stands on the shoulders of what Arianna Huffington built,” she said. “So I think that it’s in no way meant to diminish or distance us from that legacy because we’re incredibly proud of it. But I think it’s just trying to catch up with the times and how people now think of us.”

In addition to a redesigned home page, which will continue to feature HuffPost’s trademark splash headline and image framing the biggest story of the moment, the site is rolling out shareable “splash cards” for HuffPost stories to further extend the brand across social media.

Polgreen said her ideal HuffPost splash is “a combination of a great headline and a great image that has an almost meme-like quality, which would be instantly shareable and always have the potential to go viral.”

She cited Wednesday’s splash for Bill O’Reilly’s stunning exit from Fox News, featuring the headline “Billy On The Street,” as an example of the site cleverly combining current events and pop culture. The splash was widely shared ― including by truTV host Billy Eichner.

Polgreen said key storytelling elements, such as emotion, humor and outrage, would be better reflected in the bold design changes. She described being inspired by “old-school, big-city tabloids,” which boisterously held the powerful to account and boasted a populist ethos that crossed class and ideological lines. In a memo earlier this year and in recent public appearances, Polgreen has expressed a desire to reach Donald Trump voters.

It’s an ambitious goal for a site conceived after the 2004 re-election of George W. Bush as a left-leaning alternative to the conservative Drudge Report. The site has evolved greatly, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting and an emphasis, under Huffington, on approaching issues beyond a traditional left-right framework. But Polgreen’s predecessor’s decisions to initially route most Trump campaign stories to the “Entertainment” section and later to add an editor’s note to each article branding the candidate a serial liar, racist and misogynist, would presumably be obstacles to reaching Trump voters.

The future of HuffPost also came up during Polgreen’s appearance Friday at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. During an interview segment, Polgreen said HuffPost would “be different” in the coming year and speak “to a much broader audience.” She acknowledged that HuffPost is associated with “liberal, left politics because it was born in that moment,” yet characterized the contemporary political climate as non-ideological. HuffPost, she said, is “fundamentally a populist brand rather than an ideological brand.”

In her interview Thursday, Polgreen tied the rebranding and design changes to a broader reimagining of the site’s mission in the wake of the presidential election. 

“It seems really clear to me that there’s a tremendous need, not just in the United States but globally, for a news organization that really speaks to the lives and needs of people who feel left out: left out of the conversations, left out of the power equations,” Polgreen said. “So HuffPost is really there to reach out and say, ‘We’re here for you.’”

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The Huffington Post Is Now HuffPost

The Huffington Post ― the name displayed atop this site throughout its 12-year existence ― is no more. Welcome to HuffPost.

The official name change, Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen said in an interview Thursday, reflects “what our readers call us anyway.”

“Sometimes it’s a good idea just to embrace the name that your audience has chosen,” Polgreen continued. “It’s shorter, it’s snappier and gets us a more compact look.”

Changing the name across all 17 global HuffPost editions is part of an overhaul reflecting the vision of a new leadership team led by CEO Jared Grusd and Polgreen, who succeeded co-founder Arianna Huffington earlier this year. Polgreen is currently hiring journalists for top newsroom positions, including executive editor and political director. She’s now putting her stamp on the site visually, too. 

Still, Polgreen said the rebranding isn’t intended as a break with the site’s namesake. 

“Everything that HuffPost is today stands on the shoulders of what Arianna Huffington built,” she said. “So I think that it’s in no way meant to diminish or distance us from that legacy because we’re incredibly proud of it. But I think it’s just trying to catch up with the times and how people now think of us.”

In addition to a redesigned home page, which will continue to feature HuffPost’s trademark splash headline and image framing the biggest story of the moment, the site is rolling out shareable “splash cards” for HuffPost stories to further extend the brand across social media.

Polgreen said her ideal HuffPost splash is “a combination of a great headline and a great image that has an almost meme-like quality, which would be instantly shareable and always have the potential to go viral.”

She cited Wednesday’s splash for Bill O’Reilly’s stunning exit from Fox News, featuring the headline “Billy On The Street,” as an example of the site cleverly combining current events and pop culture. The splash was widely shared ― including by truTV host Billy Eichner.

Polgreen said key storytelling elements, such as emotion, humor and outrage, would be better reflected in the bold design changes. She described being inspired by “old-school, big-city tabloids,” which boisterously held the powerful to account and boasted a populist ethos that crossed class and ideological lines. In a memo earlier this year and in recent public appearances, Polgreen has expressed a desire to reach Donald Trump voters.

It’s an ambitious goal for a site conceived after the 2004 re-election of George W. Bush as a left-leaning alternative to the conservative Drudge Report. The site has evolved greatly, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting and an emphasis, under Huffington, on approaching issues beyond a traditional left-right framework. But Polgreen’s predecessor’s decisions to initially route most Trump campaign stories to the “Entertainment” section and later to add an editor’s note to each article branding the candidate a serial liar, racist and misogynist, would presumably be obstacles to reaching Trump voters.

The future of HuffPost also came up during Polgreen’s appearance Friday at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. During an interview segment, Polgreen said HuffPost would “be different” in the coming year and speak “to a much broader audience.” She acknowledged that HuffPost is associated with “liberal, left politics because it was born in that moment,” yet characterized the contemporary political climate as non-ideological. HuffPost, she said, is “fundamentally a populist brand rather than an ideological brand.”

In her interview Thursday, Polgreen tied the rebranding and design changes to a broader reimagining of the site’s mission in the wake of the presidential election. 

“It seems really clear to me that there’s a tremendous need, not just in the United States but globally, for a news organization that really speaks to the lives and needs of people who feel left out: left out of the conversations, left out of the power equations,” Polgreen said. “So HuffPost is really there to reach out and say, ‘We’re here for you.’”

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The Huffington Post Is Now HuffPost

The Huffington Post ― the name displayed atop this site throughout its 12-year existence ― is no more. Welcome to HuffPost.

The official name change, Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen said in an interview Thursday, reflects “what our readers call us anyway.”

“Sometimes it’s a good idea just to embrace the name that your audience has chosen,” Polgreen continued. “It’s shorter, it’s snappier and gets us a more compact look.”

Changing the name across all 17 global HuffPost editions is part of an overhaul reflecting the vision of a new leadership team led by CEO Jared Grusd and Polgreen, who succeeded co-founder Arianna Huffington earlier this year. Polgreen is currently hiring journalists for top newsroom positions, including executive editor and political director. She’s now putting her stamp on the site visually, too. 

Still, Polgreen said the rebranding isn’t intended as a break with the site’s namesake. 

“Everything that HuffPost is today stands on the shoulders of what Arianna Huffington built,” she said. “So I think that it’s in no way meant to diminish or distance us from that legacy because we’re incredibly proud of it. But I think it’s just trying to catch up with the times and how people now think of us.”

In addition to a redesigned home page, which will continue to feature HuffPost’s trademark splash headline and image framing the biggest story of the moment, the site is rolling out shareable “splash cards” for HuffPost stories to further extend the brand across social media.

Polgreen said her ideal HuffPost splash is “a combination of a great headline and a great image that has an almost meme-like quality, which would be instantly shareable and always have the potential to go viral.”

She cited Wednesday’s splash for Bill O’Reilly’s stunning exit from Fox News, featuring the headline “Billy On The Street,” as an example of the site cleverly combining current events and pop culture. The splash was widely shared ― including by truTV host Billy Eichner.

Polgreen said key storytelling elements, such as emotion, humor and outrage, would be better reflected in the bold design changes. She described being inspired by “old-school, big-city tabloids,” which boisterously held the powerful to account and boasted a populist ethos that crossed class and ideological lines. In a memo earlier this year and in recent public appearances, Polgreen has expressed a desire to reach Donald Trump voters.

It’s an ambitious goal for a site conceived after the 2004 re-election of George W. Bush as a left-leaning alternative to the conservative Drudge Report. The site has evolved greatly, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting and an emphasis, under Huffington, on approaching issues beyond a traditional left-right framework. But Polgreen’s predecessor’s decisions to initially route most Trump campaign stories to the “Entertainment” section and later to add an editor’s note to each article branding the candidate a serial liar, racist and misogynist, would presumably be obstacles to reaching Trump voters.

The future of HuffPost also came up during Polgreen’s appearance Friday at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. During an interview segment, Polgreen said HuffPost would “be different” in the coming year and speak “to a much broader audience.” She acknowledged that HuffPost is associated with “liberal, left politics because it was born in that moment,” yet characterized the contemporary political climate as non-ideological. HuffPost, she said, is “fundamentally a populist brand rather than an ideological brand.”

In her interview Thursday, Polgreen tied the rebranding and design changes to a broader reimagining of the site’s mission in the wake of the presidential election. 

“It seems really clear to me that there’s a tremendous need, not just in the United States but globally, for a news organization that really speaks to the lives and needs of people who feel left out: left out of the conversations, left out of the power equations,” Polgreen said. “So HuffPost is really there to reach out and say, ‘We’re here for you.’”

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The Huffington Post Is Now HuffPost

The Huffington Post ― the name displayed atop this site throughout its 12-year existence ― is no more. Welcome to HuffPost.

The official name change, Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen said in an interview Thursday, reflects “what our readers call us anyway.”

“Sometimes it’s a good idea just to embrace the name that your audience has chosen,” Polgreen continued. “It’s shorter, it’s snappier and gets us a more compact look.”

Changing the name across all 17 global HuffPost editions is part of an overhaul reflecting the vision of a new leadership team led by CEO Jared Grusd and Polgreen, who succeeded co-founder Arianna Huffington earlier this year. Polgreen is currently hiring journalists for top newsroom positions, including executive editor and political director. She’s now putting her stamp on the site visually, too. 

Still, Polgreen said the rebranding isn’t intended as a break with the site’s namesake. 

“Everything that HuffPost is today stands on the shoulders of what Arianna Huffington built,” she said. “So I think that it’s in no way meant to diminish or distance us from that legacy because we’re incredibly proud of it. But I think it’s just trying to catch up with the times and how people now think of us.”

In addition to a redesigned home page, which will continue to feature HuffPost’s trademark splash headline and image framing the biggest story of the moment, the site is rolling out shareable “splash cards” for HuffPost stories to further extend the brand across social media.

Polgreen said her ideal HuffPost splash is “a combination of a great headline and a great image that has an almost meme-like quality, which would be instantly shareable and always have the potential to go viral.”

She cited Wednesday’s splash for Bill O’Reilly’s stunning exit from Fox News, featuring the headline “Billy On The Street,” as an example of the site cleverly combining current events and pop culture. The splash was widely shared ― including by truTV host Billy Eichner.

Polgreen said key storytelling elements, such as emotion, humor and outrage, would be better reflected in the bold design changes. She described being inspired by “old-school, big-city tabloids,” which boisterously held the powerful to account and boasted a populist ethos that crossed class and ideological lines. In a memo earlier this year and in recent public appearances, Polgreen has expressed a desire to reach Donald Trump voters.

It’s an ambitious goal for a site conceived after the 2004 re-election of George W. Bush as a left-leaning alternative to the conservative Drudge Report. The site has evolved greatly, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting and an emphasis, under Huffington, on approaching issues beyond a traditional left-right framework. But Polgreen’s predecessor’s decisions to initially route most Trump campaign stories to the “Entertainment” section and later to add an editor’s note to each article branding the candidate a serial liar, racist and misogynist, would presumably be obstacles to reaching Trump voters.

The future of HuffPost also came up during Polgreen’s appearance Friday at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. During an interview segment, Polgreen said HuffPost would “be different” in the coming year and speak “to a much broader audience.” She acknowledged that HuffPost is associated with “liberal, left politics because it was born in that moment,” yet characterized the contemporary political climate as non-ideological. HuffPost, she said, is “fundamentally a populist brand rather than an ideological brand.”

In her interview Thursday, Polgreen tied the rebranding and design changes to a broader reimagining of the site’s mission in the wake of the presidential election. 

“It seems really clear to me that there’s a tremendous need, not just in the United States but globally, for a news organization that really speaks to the lives and needs of people who feel left out: left out of the conversations, left out of the power equations,” Polgreen said. “So HuffPost is really there to reach out and say, ‘We’re here for you.’”

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The Huffington Post Is Now HuffPost

The Huffington Post ― the name displayed atop this site throughout its 12-year existence ― is no more. Welcome to HuffPost.

The official name change, Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen said in an interview Thursday, reflects “what our readers call us anyway.”

“Sometimes it’s a good idea just to embrace the name that your audience has chosen,” Polgreen continued. “It’s shorter, it’s snappier and gets us a more compact look.”

Changing the name across all 17 global HuffPost editions is part of an overhaul reflecting the vision of a new leadership team led by CEO Jared Grusd and Polgreen, who succeeded co-founder Arianna Huffington earlier this year. Polgreen is currently hiring journalists for top newsroom positions, including executive editor and political director. She’s now putting her stamp on the site visually, too. 

Still, Polgreen said the rebranding isn’t intended as a break with the site’s namesake. 

“Everything that HuffPost is today stands on the shoulders of what Arianna Huffington built,” she said. “So I think that it’s in no way meant to diminish or distance us from that legacy because we’re incredibly proud of it. But I think it’s just trying to catch up with the times and how people now think of us.”

In addition to a redesigned home page, which will continue to feature HuffPost’s trademark splash headline and image framing the biggest story of the moment, the site is rolling out shareable “splash cards” for HuffPost stories to further extend the brand across social media.

Polgreen said her ideal HuffPost splash is “a combination of a great headline and a great image that has an almost meme-like quality, which would be instantly shareable and always have the potential to go viral.”

She cited Wednesday’s splash for Bill O’Reilly’s stunning exit from Fox News, featuring the headline “Billy On The Street,” as an example of the site cleverly combining current events and pop culture. The splash was widely shared ― including by truTV host Billy Eichner.

Polgreen said key storytelling elements, such as emotion, humor and outrage, would be better reflected in the bold design changes. She described being inspired by “old-school, big-city tabloids,” which boisterously held the powerful to account and boasted a populist ethos that crossed class and ideological lines. In a memo earlier this year and in recent public appearances, Polgreen has expressed a desire to reach Donald Trump voters.

It’s an ambitious goal for a site conceived after the 2004 re-election of George W. Bush as a left-leaning alternative to the conservative Drudge Report. The site has evolved greatly, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting and an emphasis, under Huffington, on approaching issues beyond a traditional left-right framework. But Polgreen’s predecessor’s decisions to initially route most Trump campaign stories to the “Entertainment” section and later to add an editor’s note to each article branding the candidate a serial liar, racist and misogynist, would presumably be obstacles to reaching Trump voters.

The future of HuffPost also came up during Polgreen’s appearance Friday at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. During an interview segment, Polgreen said HuffPost would “be different” in the coming year and speak “to a much broader audience.” She acknowledged that HuffPost is associated with “liberal, left politics because it was born in that moment,” yet characterized the contemporary political climate as non-ideological. HuffPost, she said, is “fundamentally a populist brand rather than an ideological brand.”

In her interview Thursday, Polgreen tied the rebranding and design changes to a broader reimagining of the site’s mission in the wake of the presidential election. 

“It seems really clear to me that there’s a tremendous need, not just in the United States but globally, for a news organization that really speaks to the lives and needs of people who feel left out: left out of the conversations, left out of the power equations,” Polgreen said. “So HuffPost is really there to reach out and say, ‘We’re here for you.’”

-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.

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The Huffington Post Is Now HuffPost

The Huffington Post ― the name displayed atop this site throughout its 12-year existence ― is no more. Welcome to HuffPost.

The official name change, Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen said in an interview Thursday, reflects “what our readers call us anyway.”

“Sometimes it’s a good idea just to embrace the name that your audience has chosen,” Polgreen continued. “It’s shorter, it’s snappier and gets us a more compact look.”

Changing the name across all 17 global HuffPost editions is part of an overhaul reflecting the vision of a new leadership team led by CEO Jared Grusd and Polgreen, who succeeded co-founder Arianna Huffington earlier this year. Polgreen is currently hiring journalists for top newsroom positions, including executive editor and political director. She’s now putting her stamp on the site visually, too. 

Still, Polgreen said the rebranding isn’t intended as a break with the site’s namesake. 

“Everything that HuffPost is today stands on the shoulders of what Arianna Huffington built,” she said. “So I think that it’s in no way meant to diminish or distance us from that legacy because we’re incredibly proud of it. But I think it’s just trying to catch up with the times and how people now think of us.”

In addition to a redesigned home page, which will continue to feature HuffPost’s trademark splash headline and image framing the biggest story of the moment, the site is rolling out shareable “splash cards” for HuffPost stories to further extend the brand across social media.

Polgreen said her ideal HuffPost splash is “a combination of a great headline and a great image that has an almost meme-like quality, which would be instantly shareable and always have the potential to go viral.”

She cited Wednesday’s splash for Bill O’Reilly’s stunning exit from Fox News, featuring the headline “Billy On The Street,” as an example of the site cleverly combining current events and pop culture. The splash was widely shared ― including by truTV host Billy Eichner.

Polgreen said key storytelling elements, such as emotion, humor and outrage, would be better reflected in the bold design changes. She described being inspired by “old-school, big-city tabloids,” which boisterously held the powerful to account and boasted a populist ethos that crossed class and ideological lines. In a memo earlier this year and in recent public appearances, Polgreen has expressed a desire to reach Donald Trump voters.

It’s an ambitious goal for a site conceived after the 2004 re-election of George W. Bush as a left-leaning alternative to the conservative Drudge Report. The site has evolved greatly, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting and an emphasis, under Huffington, on approaching issues beyond a traditional left-right framework. But Polgreen’s predecessor’s decisions to initially route most Trump campaign stories to the “Entertainment” section and later to add an editor’s note to each article branding the candidate a serial liar, racist and misogynist, would presumably be obstacles to reaching Trump voters.

The future of HuffPost also came up during Polgreen’s appearance Friday at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. During an interview segment, Polgreen said HuffPost would “be different” in the coming year and speak “to a much broader audience.” She acknowledged that HuffPost is associated with “liberal, left politics because it was born in that moment,” yet characterized the contemporary political climate as non-ideological. HuffPost, she said, is “fundamentally a populist brand rather than an ideological brand.”

In her interview Thursday, Polgreen tied the rebranding and design changes to a broader reimagining of the site’s mission in the wake of the presidential election. 

“It seems really clear to me that there’s a tremendous need, not just in the United States but globally, for a news organization that really speaks to the lives and needs of people who feel left out: left out of the conversations, left out of the power equations,” Polgreen said. “So HuffPost is really there to reach out and say, ‘We’re here for you.’”

-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.

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The Huffington Post Is Now HuffPost

The Huffington Post ― the name displayed atop this site throughout its 12-year existence ― is no more. Welcome to HuffPost.

The official name change, Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen said in an interview Thursday, reflects “what our readers call us anyway.”

“Sometimes it’s a good idea just to embrace the name that your audience has chosen,” Polgreen continued. “It’s shorter, it’s snappier and gets us a more compact look.”

Changing the name across all 17 global HuffPost editions is part of an overhaul reflecting the vision of a new leadership team led by CEO Jared Grusd and Polgreen, who succeeded co-founder Arianna Huffington earlier this year. Polgreen is currently hiring journalists for top newsroom positions, including executive editor and political director. She’s now putting her stamp on the site visually, too. 

Still, Polgreen said the rebranding isn’t intended as a break with the site’s namesake. 

“Everything that HuffPost is today stands on the shoulders of what Arianna Huffington built,” she said. “So I think that it’s in no way meant to diminish or distance us from that legacy because we’re incredibly proud of it. But I think it’s just trying to catch up with the times and how people now think of us.”

In addition to a redesigned home page, which will continue to feature HuffPost’s trademark splash headline and image framing the biggest story of the moment, the site is rolling out shareable “splash cards” for HuffPost stories to further extend the brand across social media.

Polgreen said her ideal HuffPost splash is “a combination of a great headline and a great image that has an almost meme-like quality, which would be instantly shareable and always have the potential to go viral.”

She cited Wednesday’s splash for Bill O’Reilly’s stunning exit from Fox News, featuring the headline “Billy On The Street,” as an example of the site cleverly combining current events and pop culture. The splash was widely shared ― including by truTV host Billy Eichner.

Polgreen said key storytelling elements, such as emotion, humor and outrage, would be better reflected in the bold design changes. She described being inspired by “old-school, big-city tabloids,” which boisterously held the powerful to account and boasted a populist ethos that crossed class and ideological lines. In a memo earlier this year and in recent public appearances, Polgreen has expressed a desire to reach Donald Trump voters.

It’s an ambitious goal for a site conceived after the 2004 re-election of George W. Bush as a left-leaning alternative to the conservative Drudge Report. The site has evolved greatly, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting and an emphasis, under Huffington, on approaching issues beyond a traditional left-right framework. But Polgreen’s predecessor’s decisions to initially route most Trump campaign stories to the “Entertainment” section and later to add an editor’s note to each article branding the candidate a serial liar, racist and misogynist, would presumably be obstacles to reaching Trump voters.

The future of HuffPost also came up during Polgreen’s appearance Friday at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. During an interview segment, Polgreen said HuffPost would “be different” in the coming year and speak “to a much broader audience.” She acknowledged that HuffPost is associated with “liberal, left politics because it was born in that moment,” yet characterized the contemporary political climate as non-ideological. HuffPost, she said, is “fundamentally a populist brand rather than an ideological brand.”

In her interview Thursday, Polgreen tied the rebranding and design changes to a broader reimagining of the site’s mission in the wake of the presidential election. 

“It seems really clear to me that there’s a tremendous need, not just in the United States but globally, for a news organization that really speaks to the lives and needs of people who feel left out: left out of the conversations, left out of the power equations,” Polgreen said. “So HuffPost is really there to reach out and say, ‘We’re here for you.’”

-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.

from DIYS http://ift.tt/2oqiwGT

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The Huffington Post Is Now HuffPost

The Huffington Post ― the name displayed atop this site throughout its 12-year existence ― is no more. Welcome to HuffPost.

The official name change, Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen said in an interview Thursday, reflects “what our readers call us anyway.”

“Sometimes it’s a good idea just to embrace the name that your audience has chosen,” Polgreen continued. “It’s shorter, it’s snappier and gets us a more compact look.”

Changing the name across all 17 global HuffPost editions is part of an overhaul reflecting the vision of a new leadership team led by CEO Jared Grusd and Polgreen, who succeeded co-founder Arianna Huffington earlier this year. Polgreen is currently hiring journalists for top newsroom positions, including executive editor and political director. She’s now putting her stamp on the site visually, too. 

Still, Polgreen said the rebranding isn’t intended as a break with the site’s namesake. 

“Everything that HuffPost is today stands on the shoulders of what Arianna Huffington built,” she said. “So I think that it’s in no way meant to diminish or distance us from that legacy because we’re incredibly proud of it. But I think it’s just trying to catch up with the times and how people now think of us.”

In addition to a redesigned home page, which will continue to feature HuffPost’s trademark splash headline and image framing the biggest story of the moment, the site is rolling out shareable “splash cards” for HuffPost stories to further extend the brand across social media.

Polgreen said her ideal HuffPost splash is “a combination of a great headline and a great image that has an almost meme-like quality, which would be instantly shareable and always have the potential to go viral.”

She cited Wednesday’s splash for Bill O’Reilly’s stunning exit from Fox News, featuring the headline “Billy On The Street,” as an example of the site cleverly combining current events and pop culture. The splash was widely shared ― including by truTV host Billy Eichner.

Polgreen said key storytelling elements, such as emotion, humor and outrage, would be better reflected in the bold design changes. She described being inspired by “old-school, big-city tabloids,” which boisterously held the powerful to account and boasted a populist ethos that crossed class and ideological lines. In a memo earlier this year and in recent public appearances, Polgreen has expressed a desire to reach Donald Trump voters.

It’s an ambitious goal for a site conceived after the 2004 re-election of George W. Bush as a left-leaning alternative to the conservative Drudge Report. The site has evolved greatly, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting and an emphasis, under Huffington, on approaching issues beyond a traditional left-right framework. But Polgreen’s predecessor’s decisions to initially route most Trump campaign stories to the “Entertainment” section and later to add an editor’s note to each article branding the candidate a serial liar, racist and misogynist, would presumably be obstacles to reaching Trump voters.

The future of HuffPost also came up during Polgreen’s appearance Friday at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. During an interview segment, Polgreen said HuffPost would “be different” in the coming year and speak “to a much broader audience.” She acknowledged that HuffPost is associated with “liberal, left politics because it was born in that moment,” yet characterized the contemporary political climate as non-ideological. HuffPost, she said, is “fundamentally a populist brand rather than an ideological brand.”

In her interview Thursday, Polgreen tied the rebranding and design changes to a broader reimagining of the site’s mission in the wake of the presidential election. 

“It seems really clear to me that there’s a tremendous need, not just in the United States but globally, for a news organization that really speaks to the lives and needs of people who feel left out: left out of the conversations, left out of the power equations,” Polgreen said. “So HuffPost is really there to reach out and say, ‘We’re here for you.’”

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The Huffington Post Is Now HuffPost

The Huffington Post ― the name displayed atop this site throughout its 12-year existence ― is no more. Welcome to HuffPost.

The official name change, Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen said in an interview Thursday, reflects “what our readers call us anyway.”

“Sometimes it’s a good idea just to embrace the name that your audience has chosen,” Polgreen continued. “It’s shorter, it’s snappier and gets us a more compact look.”

Changing the name across all 17 global HuffPost editions is part of an overhaul reflecting the vision of a new leadership team led by CEO Jared Grusd and Polgreen, who succeeded co-founder Arianna Huffington earlier this year. Polgreen is currently hiring journalists for top newsroom positions, including executive editor and political director. She’s now putting her stamp on the site visually, too. 

Still, Polgreen said the rebranding isn’t intended as a break with the site’s namesake. 

“Everything that HuffPost is today stands on the shoulders of what Arianna Huffington built,” she said. “So I think that it’s in no way meant to diminish or distance us from that legacy because we’re incredibly proud of it. But I think it’s just trying to catch up with the times and how people now think of us.”

In addition to a redesigned home page, which will continue to feature HuffPost’s trademark splash headline and image framing the biggest story of the moment, the site is rolling out shareable “splash cards” for HuffPost stories to further extend the brand across social media.

Polgreen said her ideal HuffPost splash is “a combination of a great headline and a great image that has an almost meme-like quality, which would be instantly shareable and always have the potential to go viral.”

She cited Wednesday’s splash for Bill O’Reilly’s stunning exit from Fox News, featuring the headline “Billy On The Street,” as an example of the site cleverly combining current events and pop culture. The splash was widely shared ― including by truTV host Billy Eichner.

Polgreen said key storytelling elements, such as emotion, humor and outrage, would be better reflected in the bold design changes. She described being inspired by “old-school, big-city tabloids,” which boisterously held the powerful to account and boasted a populist ethos that crossed class and ideological lines. In a memo earlier this year and in recent public appearances, Polgreen has expressed a desire to reach Donald Trump voters.

It’s an ambitious goal for a site conceived after the 2004 re-election of George W. Bush as a left-leaning alternative to the conservative Drudge Report. The site has evolved greatly, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting and an emphasis, under Huffington, on approaching issues beyond a traditional left-right framework. But Polgreen’s predecessor’s decisions to initially route most Trump campaign stories to the “Entertainment” section and later to add an editor’s note to each article branding the candidate a serial liar, racist and misogynist, would presumably be obstacles to reaching Trump voters.

The future of HuffPost also came up during Polgreen’s appearance Friday at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. During an interview segment, Polgreen said HuffPost would “be different” in the coming year and speak “to a much broader audience.” She acknowledged that HuffPost is associated with “liberal, left politics because it was born in that moment,” yet characterized the contemporary political climate as non-ideological. HuffPost, she said, is “fundamentally a populist brand rather than an ideological brand.”

In her interview Thursday, Polgreen tied the rebranding and design changes to a broader reimagining of the site’s mission in the wake of the presidential election. 

“It seems really clear to me that there’s a tremendous need, not just in the United States but globally, for a news organization that really speaks to the lives and needs of people who feel left out: left out of the conversations, left out of the power equations,” Polgreen said. “So HuffPost is really there to reach out and say, ‘We’re here for you.’”

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Oh No, Mr. Bill!

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Financial entanglements forced Todd Ricketts to withdraw his nomination to be deputy commerce secretary — proving your bookkeeping can be too murky even for the Trump administration. Evan McMullin is vying to raise his national profile — oh, he’s also mulling a run for Congress. And Bill O’Reilly was fired from Fox News. Somewhere, Jeff Zucker just asked someone to hold his beer. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Wednesday, April 19th, 2017:

NIL O’REILLY - Thank goodness for Ivanka and Jared’s moderating influence over Rupert Murdoch. Lydia O’Connor and Michael Calderone: “Bill O’Reilly will no longer be employed at Fox News, the network’s parent company 21st Century Fox said in a statement Wednesday. The decision comes after allegations of him sexually harassing female colleagues prompted protests outside network headquarters and a mass exodus from advertisers…. Fox News host Tucker Carlson will take over O’Reilly’s 8 p.m. time slot next Monday, Fox confirmed…. Following a bombshell New York Times report earlier this month indicating O’Reilly and Fox News have paid around $13 million in settlements to address complaints brought by five of his former female colleagues, advertisers began fleeing the show. Within days, more than 50 companies announced they would no longer air spots during the show.” [HuffPost]

How did O’Reilly stay on board for so long? “Even beyond these incidents, O’Reilly often made clear his contempt for women. On his radio show in August 2006, he commented on the rape and murder of a young woman, suggesting that she shared some of the blame because of her intoxicated state and what she was wearing…. I wrote about O’Reilly’s comments in 2009 when I worked for the site ThinkProgress, tied to the news that he was slated to speak at a fundraiser to benefit rape survivors. In return, O’Reilly sent his producer, Jesse Watters, to track me down and ambush me while I was on vacation in another state a few weeks later.” [HuffPost’s Amanda Terkel]

In the middle of all this, O’Reilly met the pope on Thursday.

CHAFFETZ RETIRING FROM CONGRESS - The Utah congressman is looking forward to spending more time with his wife a corkboard in his basement covered with magazine cutouts of Hillary Clinton connected by thumbtacks and red string. Paige Lavender and Matt Fuller: “Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), the controversial chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said on Wednesday he will not run for re-election, after BuzzFeed reported that he would retire at the end of this term…. Chaffetz noted he would ‘not be a candidate for any office in 2018,’ leaving open the possibility he may run for governor in 2020…. His decision sets off an immediate gavel fight to take over the top spot on the oversight committee…. Among some of the leading contenders for the spot are former Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Rep. Jimmy Duncan (R-Tenn.), and the man Chaffetz beat out for the gavel in late 2014: Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio).” [HuffPost]

But will David French get into the race? “[F]ormer independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin spoke with advisers to evaluate his options in the state with a victory suddenly seeming more likely than before…. [A] source close to McMullin told Independent Journal Review that McMullin is ‘considering running in 2018’ but still hasn’t made a decision on how he will proceed.” [IJR]

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RICKETTS WITHDRAWS NOMINATION - Lynn Sweet: “Unable to untangle his complex financial holdings to the satisfaction of the Office of Government Ethics, Cubs board member Todd Ricketts, tapped by President Donald Trump to be the Deputy Commerce Secretary, on Wednesday withdrew his nomination, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. Ricketts, a Wilmette resident who is a member of the billionaire Ricketts clan, was willing to divest his considerable personal portfolio of holdings, but that was apparently not enough. Some of the Ricketts investments are in family enterprises, including the Cubs…. Ricketts has varied business interests, from his ‘Higher Gear’ bike store in Wilmette to his position on the TD Ameritrade board. The Ricketts family are large shareholders of the company Joe Ricketts founded in 1975. Ricketts and his three siblings are on the Cubs board, legally known as Chicago Baseball Holdings LLC.” [Chicago Sun-Times]

TRUMP-CURIEL SHOWDOWN, PT. 2 - Alan Gomez: “President Trump will confront a familiar figure in the lawsuit over a DREAMer who was deported by federal immigration agents: U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel. He’s the judge who oversaw a lawsuit involving Trump University who Trump accused of being biased because of his ‘Mexican heritage.’ Curiel, who was born in Indiana, approved a $25 million settlement between Trump and students who claimed they overpaid for real estate seminars…. Now, Curiel has been assigned to handle a lawsuit brought on behalf of Juan Manuel Montes, 23, a California resident who was deported in February despite being approved for the Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provides protective status for undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children.” [USA Today]

ADELSON DUMPED A LOT OF MONEY ON TRUMP’S INAUGURATION - Condolences to the online gambling industry. Rosalind S. Helderman and John Wagner: “Casino magnate and Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson donated $5 million to President Trump’s inaugural festivities, as corporate interests and lobbyists lifted the inaugural committee’s fundraising to record levels. In all, more than 45 individuals and companies donated at least $1 million each to the effort as Trump broke with the practice of most recent inaugural committees and placed no limits on corporate or individual donors. Major donors included Robert Mercer, the hedge fund manager who has been one of Trump’s biggest donors, Dow Chemical, and Phillip Ruffin, a longtime Trump friend and business partner. Several owners of National Football League teams gave $1 million, including Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, Los Angeles Rams owner Stanley Kroenke, Houston Texans owner Robert McNair and a Trump friend who owns the New England Patriots, Robert K. Kraft, whose team is visiting the White House on Wednesday.” [WaPo]

FUTURE FAILED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ANDREW CUOMO MADE A LOT OF MONEY OFF OF A BAD BOOK - Tom Precious: “Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo...has made $783,000 from HarperCollins for his book. The book sold 3,200 copies since it was published in the fall of 2014, according to tracking company NPD BookScan. That works out to royalty payments to Cuomo of $245 per book…. In his 2016 tax filings made public Monday, the book royalty income was listed at $218,100…. Cuomo’s government spokesman declined to say how many copies of the book have been sold. ‘This payment was contractual and per the agreement with the publisher,’’ Richard Azzopardi, a Cuomo spokesman, said of the book income in 2015.” [Buffalo News]

WONDER HOW THIS WILL GO - Congratulations to Exxon Mobil on its resumed joint venture.  Jay Solomon and Bradley Olson: “Exxon Mobil Corp has applied to the Treasury Department for a waiver from U.S. sanctions on Russia in a bid to resume its joint venture with state oil giant PAO Rosneft, according to people familiar with the matter. Exxon has been seeking U.S. permission to drill with Rosneft in several areas banned by sanctions and applied in recent months for a waiver to proceed in the Black Sea, according to these people…. Congress has also launched an investigation into whether there were ties between aides to Donald Trump and Russia’s government during the presidential campaign and the political transition.Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is Exxon’s former chief executive officer and in that role forged a close working relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and with Rosneft, a company that is critical to Russia’s oil-reliant economy.” [WSJ]

ANOTHER BUSH VYING TO SCREW UP ANOTHER MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM - Guess they’ll be able to bond over the fact that they both dated Mariah Carey. Douglas Hanks: “Jeb Bush and Derek Jeter have joined forces in their bid to buy the Miami Marlins, according to sources familiar with the talks. The former Florida governor and retired New York Yankees star once were rivals for the Major League Baseball franchise but now have teamed up to try and buy the team, the sources said. They are competing against a New York financier named Wayne Rothbaum, manager of Quogue Capital, a source close to the situation said. It is not known if other would-be suitors of the Marlins remain in the hunt.” [Miami Herald]

OH MY! Patricia Mazzei: “Miami Republican Sen. Frank Artiles dropped the n-word to a pair of African-American colleagues in private conversation Monday night — after calling one of them a ‘fucking asshole,’ a ‘bitch’ and a ‘girl,’ the two senators said. Over drinks after 10 p.m. at the members-only Governors Club just steps from the state Capitol, Artiles told Sens. Audrey Gibson of Jacksonville and Perry Thurston of Fort Lauderdale that Senate President Joe Negron of Stuart had risen to his powerful GOP leadership role because ‘six niggers’ in the Republican caucus had elected him…. It’s unclear whom Artiles was referring to, since the only black senators in the state Senate are all Democrats.” [Miami Herald]

BECAUSE YOU’VE READ THIS FAR - Here’s a beagle playing the piano.

FLORIDA TO BE SLIGHTLY LESS TERRIBLE FOR A BIT - New Jersey, however… well, you can’t make zero any more devoid of value than it already is. Darren Samuelsohn and Ken Vogel: “[O]nce his exclusive seaside retreat at Mar-a-Lago closes for the season, Trump is expected to shift his weekend plans north, to his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey — and bring with him all the chaos that comes with being a preferred presidential destination. ‘We’re kind of apprehensive, I guess you could say,’ said Nick Strakhov, a retired telecommunications professional and longtime resident who serves on the Bedminster land use board. ‘It’s nice to be recognized. But on the other hand, if it gets to be tedious, we might start to complain.’ Street closures and traffic jams were a big problem last fall across the region when the then-president-elect traveled to Bedminster by motorcade from Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan for a weekend’s worth of interviews with potential Cabinet nominees.” [Politico]

COMFORT FOOD

- “The Simpsons” turns 30 years old. Here are the first “Simpsons” shorts from the “Tracey Ullman Show.”

- Gibbons aren’t happy about a rat in their enclosure.

- Recounting a date with the former general manager of the Times Square Olive Garden.

TWITTERAMA

Bill O'Reilly Alex Jones Rudy Giuliani Tomi Lahren Chris Christie People who are having a waaaaaay different 2017 than they expected.

— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) April 19, 2017

I Was Ambushed By Bill O’Reilly. But I Still Have A Job And He Doesn’t. AMA.

— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel) April 19, 2017

Updated Fox News lineup 8 PM Pepe Frog and Friends 9 PM The Comments Section 10 PM Email From My Dad With the Subject "RE: Re: re: FWD:"

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) April 19, 2017

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