News Guild Ends HuffPost Boycott

The National Writers Union and the Newspaper Guild-CWA are ending their boycott of the Huffington Post, which was launched in March and asked writers to stop writing for free on Arianna’s site.

As may be painfully clear by looking at the Huffington Post, not many writers withheld their work. (Although some of them did launch HuffingtonPostUnionofBloggers, which had the distinction of also not paying writers for their work, but without a CEO who could sell the property to AOL for millions.

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