Thousands of Huffington Post Bloggers Want Their Share of the Sale Price!
Arianna Huffington recently sold the Huffington Post to AOL for $315 million, which seems to have made her personally $100 million richer.
However, out of the $315 million how much will all the unpaid bloggers be receiving? Well, nothing!
Now some of these Huffington Post contributors are demanding a share of the pie. They’ve setup a Facebook Page, appropriately titled Hey Arianna, asking Arianna to “give a little back to the unpaid writers who built the Huffington Post.”
This $315 million buyout by AOL, along with her $4 million annual salary as part of the deal, was built on the backs of hard-working writers who never saw a dime for their labor.
Many of Huffington Post’s most productive contributors broke news and provided astute analysis to regular beats, allowing Huffington to avoid hiring a paid journalist for the same coverage.
via Labnol
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If the bloggers who gave their time and energy to the Huffington Post do not get money, I believe they all should leave it and either start their own entity or join with another which might give them more… both respect AND money…..it is too bad that their ideals let them be exploited….