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joining us now from los angeles, huffington president and editor in chief of the huffington post mediawelcome, and let me start by asking you, you know, it's only one prize, but it's a prestigious prize brsh do you see this as something of a breakthrough? >> well, it definitely is a breakthrough. it's something that we're grateful for. the newsroom was elated, and it means a lot both for huff post, for all our reporters and editors, but also for on-line journalism. it's a demonstration that great journalism can be practiced on any platform. in fact, what we showed with this ten-part series is you can bring in all the different elements that go into a great story on the web -- video, info graphics, commenting, the participation of our leaders. beyond the stories themselves we had dozens of contributions from families that read and very empowering stories because at the end of its story there was a whole list of things that people could do to help with that. >> i was going to ask you, david wood is somebody who spent most of his career in newspaperses and a ten-part series kind of feels

huffington post divorce. am the editor of both huffington post divorce wedding a and weddings. the response we got was tremendous. we had hundreds of people tweeting us and saying, the moment i knew my marriage was over was when he sprinkled bread crumbs on my salad, knowing that i had a wheat allergy. or when arianna approached me about bringing "ment moment i knew" to kind of the larger site, it was kind of a no-brainer. >> what type of submissions seem to get the most response? >> the ones that are the bigger celebrities have eobviously gotten a lot of hits. pe rez hilton got a lot of hits. besides celebrities, it's really those amazing stories. we had one on huff post divorce, the moment i knew my marriage was over is when i came home and found my husband in bed with my two best friends. you cannot top that. >> can people go to huff post weddings and see all these videos? >> yeah. the best thing is to go to huf 23 post weddings or the moment i knew youtube channel. >> if you're interesting in uploading a

huffington.irst here is my view. two big wins this week. first bowing to grassroots pressure, alec has retreated saying they will no longer lobby for stand your ground and voter i.d. laws. second shareholders at citibank stood up and said enough. we don't want to pay our ceo $15 million. these events highlight a major opportunity--a new approach to moving the political needle to changing our politics. so i'm going to suggest a new slogan. instead of occupy wall street list change it a bit to we own wall street. and we do. our dollars own and could control the companies that we want to influence. with ownership comes the right and, indeed, the obligation to get the companies we own to do the right thing. what do i mean we own them? the shares that actually control the major banks manufacturers retail giants, all the big publicly traded companies are held by the big pools of capital. mutual funds public and private pension funds endowments of big universities including the public ones, and we own t

well of course it was a proud moment for the online journalists and here they are at the huffington post celebrating. i know that. maybe the next time they lead their pulitzer prize will be able to for its campaign . be are there. any right here to talk about the changing face of journalism and i'm joined now by it's a pretty name birth to spare they have you on the show as our way to thank you so we have all night outlets there they're being dealt with now is this another the changing face of journalism. yes and no i'll take the weasely way out and take both sides put it seriously yes or no i mean basically what you saw was them winning in very traditional categories because you know a pulitzer is you know it was joseph pulitzer didn't envision the internet back then but storytelling and you know in getting these types of stories and packaging them you know that's nothing new but basically they won for serial feature writing huffington post a something which is they are not known to do they are known for their business model which is an aggregation aggregation aggregation aggregation th

of buzz feed and one of the founders of it huffington post. both of which have done enormously well. thank you. >> thank you, pfs fun. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org stocks fell on worries that china might... announcer: the new pbs for ipad app. you'll never know what you'll find. [dog barks] announcer: available now in the app store.

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is wonderful that huffington post won, too. i hate to see the end of print news outlets, but that is not inevitable. made the best man win. >> is that newspaper in the morning a thing of the past, colby? >> i start my day with the internet. i do read the newspaper, but i really get my news otherwise. >> i hate reading newspapers on line. i have no sense of placement of what the editors think is important, no ability to see stories and rows and read the first paragraph of something and suddenly go, "that is really interesting," and i keep reading. i think something is actually lost -- not to mention your eyesight -- by reading online. >> it is like limiting the death of the dewey decimal system. [laughter] when we were in college, you go through all the cards and discover it but you did not know existed. now you go on line and that is it. my son is a voracious reader of all the new spirit he has no experience holding a newspaper. that entire generation never developed the habit. dead trees are dead. it lwill be considered as obs

but huffington post did. thanks. it was a huge thing, an incredible series. first ever pullitser price for huffington post. >> it was, i thought, well deserved. it is it was a great, great series. maybe better for some of the quick-moving, fast political stories but this was an in-depth piece of reporting, worthy of any great newspaper. >> great. it there has been a change at the huffington post. i have been there around a year and have seen dozens if not 100 reporters and staff and people like david wood. you know, david has had a four-decade career in journalism covering the military. he's been in war zones for, you know, for much of that period an incredible reporter. as he got the opportunity to do a series he really wanted to do which was to look as what happens when these soldiers are off of the battlefield. he covered them on the front lines for decades and from march until october, he did an incredible amount of reporting, at a 10 part along with great video we had and other multi-media. it came toget

show and the huffington post. we have the transcripts, yes, right here, of key internal fed meetings from the height of the financial crisis and actual moments of horror. we'll bring you what we learned in just a moment. >>> but first our big story off the top of the news today, the big reason for those closed door meetings in this book and a big symptom of how those meetings were conducted. the ongoing mortgage meltdown and paralyzed housing market in this country. today, state attorneys general are demanding that taxpayer-funded fannie and freddie, our money at the government, do more to relieve struggling homeowners. they say they want some of the mortgage debt that we own of our own money that the government canceled. they say we'll help stabilize the housing market and help at-risk homeowners. remember, fannie and freddie own 60% of our mortgages. in turn, it means you and i and the taxpayers own our own debt, if that makes any sense. so the good news is we're actually negotiating a debt restructuring, theore

at the "huffington post" when we go on business trips this is not what we're doing.is clearly something that needs to be cleaned up internally. >> bengie i listen to what amanda is saying, and i agree, but i also think are we just naive. i mean, these are guys on a business trip, quote, unquote. he says when the strippers leave the strip club they become escorts. we have a military lining up outside red light districts all over the world. >> this isn't sailors on shore leave in manhattan. this is the secret service. and most importantly you don't want them vulnerable to being compromised to bribery blackmail to being caught off guard, apparently some of the reports, they were going around bragging about how close they were to the president ahead of his visit. none of this seems like something you want going on. >> it has been about ten or 12 hours, but i guess i lose on this one, and our producer will be happy to see that i concede that you guys are all right. the president was pretty cool on jimmy fallon the other night, and karl rove's pac has picked up on that, an

president obama took a few shot at the assembled journalists, including this one about the huffington post winning a pulitzer prize. >> you deserve it, arianna. there's no one else out there linking to the kinds of hard-hitting journalism that huf-po is linking to every single day. >>> presidents and presidential candidate are hardly an unusual sight on late night tv these days, so it was the barack obama showed up on jimmy fallon's program. >> i'm president barack obama, and i, too, want to slow jam the news. ♪ >> on july 1st of this year the interest rates on stafford student loans, the seam loans that many of you use to help pay for college are set to double. the position is that students just have to make this rated, frankly, i don't buy it. >> hmm, hmm, hmm. the barackness monster ain't buying it. >> you know who else wasn't buying it? many pundits. >> i do not agree with the highest office of the land, the most important figure in the world going on these comedy shows. i think it lowers the status of the office. >> we have so many issues and problems going on in this country, ar

. >> all right, arianna huffington, president and editor in chief of the "huffington post" media. thank you so much for being here. congratulations on the pulitzer prize. you have proven to the media world all wrong. stay right here to enter the war room with jennifer granholm. thanks for watching. have a great night. >>> right now we have two completing visions of our future. and those folks on the other side, i'm sure they are patriot, and sincere in what they but their theory, i believe is wrong. >> this is "the war room." i'm jennifer grandholm, that was president obama today delivering what the white house referred to as remarks on the economy at loraine county community ledge in elyria, ohio, but let's be clear, every speech that the president delivers between now and election day should be seen as a campaign address even if the president doesn't mention mitt romney by name. romney was doing his own campaign spin with a stop in charlotte, north carolina today the sight of september's democratic convention. he predicted that unlike the president's 2008 speech this year's won'

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that is there in the "huffington post" and other places. but i do think in some ways the media world now is quite lively. yes, we have consensus, but we also have paul krugman on the "times" helping to mobilize people against it. we have good investigative reporting in places like "the new yorker." so i think it's important to realize that we are still in the post-modernist movement and we will be for most of our lifetimes and we should make the best of it in that sense, i think. historians, william james brian, who on his passport asked to list an occupation. it said journalist because he spent all his life writing journalism. in some ways no one would think of brian as an objective reporter of anything. and more power to him in that sense. i think we should encourage multiplicity of intelligent journalism rather than be railing its fragmentation. >> alan, michael mentioned you as someone he was dissenting from. is there any daylight between your conceptions? >> well, i think i do agree with rick, but there certainly are consensual views o

barnett hill and as a journalist blogger and author she writes about mental health topics for the huffington post about young people's experience medications at my meds myself a blog at the psychology website psych central she held positions at the atlanta constitution journal in st louis post dispatch as worked as a freelance journalist for a variety of publications including the new york observer and parents magazine she graduated dartmouth college as well as the columbia university journalism school kidman is also the author of the new book joe just medication generation grows up and she joins us now from our studios in new york city caitlin welcome. thanks so much for having me thanks for joining us tonight you write that your generation is the first in history to have a certain a significant percentage grow up in psychiatric or psychotropic medications mind and emotional during that occasions what does that mean for us as a culture and for the future of your generation. well i think that it means that a significant percentage of people have really had their personalities shaped by these

the request that i filed along with the staff here and the folks at the huffington post. in fact, on page 2 of the wall street journal today, references to those minutes, which are open to everybody to gander through, our friends say they've gone through the business documents. also running an accompanying story busting the fed for joking immediately following the collapse of bearenstain and bear brothers. and they said the only subject that has been more analyzed than the housing situation is brad and angie's engagement. remember, these transcripts are from the guts of the financial crisis. unfortunately, the rest of us aren't doing so much laughing. in case you missed it, here it is right under here, right under the papers. the binder from the board of governors at the federal reserve that sent it to us in an effort to comply with their rhetoric of transparency, offering theoretically insight into the feds' meetings. the 75 pages they sent us are pretty heavily redacted. however, we did discover a revolving door, or are able to draw more light two the revolving door be

laura bassett is national reporter with the huffington post.sues and joining us in studio. hi, laura. nice to see you. >> great to be here. >> patty murray and dianne feinstein and one other senator held a news conference yesterday. you might have been there, where they talked about the importance of this act and why this is not something we ought to be playing politics with. here is patty murray. >> women in america cannot afford political theater on this issue. not on this issue. >> joe biden wrote it in 1994, reauthorized twice. what's the deal this year? >> republicans have a problem with it this year because democrats wrote the bill and expanded some of the protection to include same-sex couples as well as undocumented immigrants. and republicans can't support it with those extra protection in it. >> so it's okay to beat up women who are here illegally? is that it? fair game? >> if you are gay. >> and to beat of gays and lesbian s.? >> exactly. >> what? it's like it defies believe. >> i agree. republicans are saying that the democrats are

about huffington post middle east blog from london thank you very much indeed for your time. here with our c.n.n. still to come a chance to live cancer is in india with their hope in a new western lifesaving that's been made locally and cheaper helping thousands who otherwise couldn't afford treatment plants will be coming to extremes. the rivers and draw of russia's far north provide two things that are vital for the people that live here and fish come and see how life here revolves around them just a few minutes. paid last energy resources of the arctic have so far been fought by the countries bordering the region now china the world's biggest energy consumer is joining in the country's premier is touring europe fast stopping in iceland where he signed accords on energy corp beijing also wants permanent observer status on the oxy cancel and some experts believe china has a real chance of securing itself a slice. chinese rising rising very quickly it was a politically and economically somewhat the western countries actually should have cautious their stores trying to survive

shared it with the folks at the huffington post, shared it with the folks on our side. all sorts of word searches. they tend to laugh a lot at these meetings, so when you see in the thing, so, you're doling out $30 million to resurrect the banks while creating hundreds of millions of people who ultimately deal with food inflation and go hungry, displacing millions of americans from their homes. >> they had a mind reader from the gsa party. >> what else is in there? in theory, and we'll get into it on monday, there are a few things in here. for me the most interesting thing in here, which we'll get into, is who was in the meetings and where they are now. because what you really realize is there is a tremendous number of people, dan, who were involved in this process -- it's not a small group of three or four people, it's not like three or four people at a meeting -- there's hundreds of people in these meetings who are now working on wall street in financial employments. >> these people are not necessarily federal employees? >> no, they're banking employees. there's a spe

i can't remember what it was called, "sex, motherhood and politi politics" on the huffington post. 99% of american women have used birth control at some point in their lives. 97% of catholic women have used birth control. mothers use birth control. it's very important to note that. the average family size is under two children per family. it's important here cooked into economic justice, which you know about, but it costs over $200,000 to raise one child to age 18 not even including college. until we get family economic security policies, people are struggling to support the children that they now have with a quarter of families with young children living in poverty. so i completely agree with you that having access to both when to have children and how many is critical to the economic empowerment of all women and mothers. >> i guess that settles that. we'll rotate microphones. >> my name is karen, and i'm with unite against the war on women. first, i'd like to thank both linda and terry on the panel for supporting what we are doing and my question is for everybody in this room. who is

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