Unnoticed by this observer, the Globe and Mail's business section has been running a weekend series titled "The Lunch," a festgab by various reporters with business figures. This week's, by Susan Krashinsky, features Arrianna Huffington whose empire of web pages is out to conquer the world. As noted below, a French site launches on Monday with Anne Sinclair, wife of Dominique- Strauss-Kahn, at the helm.
The interview contains some interesting things: The site does not pay writers but seems to be able to con some big names to work for free. It also does not charge, making its money from advertising (if it does make any money, that is). The Canadian site employs 14 full-time people, four of whom will work for the upcoming Quebec edition that is to launch next month. Ms Huffington also plans to launch a streaming video version of the sites. The Globe web page features some audio clips from the interview.
Ms Huffington's site was bought by America Online a year ago for $315 million.
Here is a link to the full version:
Interesting as the lunch series is, we miss Jan Wong who always went for the jugular.
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