Yet another (paid) opinion piece about Huffington Post’s blogger relations
The editor-in-chief of Huffington Post UK caused a mini Twitter storm last week when he told Radio 4 that unpaid journalism is more authentic, more real than a paid column.
This ignited pretty much the same debate that raged when HuffPo was sold to AOL in 2011. Many unpaid bloggers suddenly felt aggrieved that their work had lined Arianna’s pockets.
But in 2016, this gaffe is more a lesson in PR than it is a chance to re-examine the economics of publishing.