Is the Huffington Post for sale?
John Thompson
Published May 03, 2026
Also asked, how much did HuffPost sell for?
In 2011, AOL bought the Huffington Post for $315 million—an eye-popping price for its day— as part of then-CEO Tim Armstrong's bid to turn around the struggling web portal. In 2015, Verizon acquired AOL for $4.4 billion, taking on HuffPost in the transaction.
Also, who bought BuzzFeed? NBCUniversal
Also to know, is Huffington Post a scholarly source?
Even the most respectable of these, the ones that reproduce only vetted news articles and attempt to be politically neutral (think Google News), are not “academic sources” and seldom if ever have articles from scholarly journals.
Who owns the Huff Post?
In June 2015, Verizon Communications acquired AOL for US$4.4 billion and the site became a part of Verizon Media.
HuffPost.
| Type of site | News aggregator, blog |
|---|---|
| Founded | May 9, 2005 |
| Headquarters | 770 Broadway New York City, U.S. |
| Owner | BuzzFeed |
| Created by | Arianna Huffington Kenneth Lerer Jonah Peretti Andrew Breitbart |