Mario Ruiz's Statement on HuffPo Criticism
Mario Ruiz, SVP of media relations at Huffington Post gave us a statement regarding the critiques from the media about Huffington Post’s business model. Specifically, not paying freelancers.
Ruiz tells FishbowlLA:
The vast majority of our bloggers understand the value of having a platform that reaches a very large audience. People blog on HuffPost for free for the same reason they go on cable TV shows every night for free – because they are passionate about their ideas, want them to be heard by the largest possible audience, and understand the value that that kind of visibility can bring (the visibility of being on HuffPost has led to our bloggers being invited on TV to discuss their posts, to paid speeches, to book deals, to a TV show – Greg Gutfeld claims he was offered his Fox show because of his writing on HuffPost).
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