Arianna Huffington Voted Media Person Of The Year

Arianna Huffington beat out contenders like Tina Fey, Rupert Murdoch and the Laid-Off Journalist to win I Want Media's Person of the Year 2008.

The readers of I Want Media nominated 10 candidates and cast thousands of votes in the week-long Internet-based contest. The winner last year was "Hollywood's striking writers," who followed Comedy Central satirical newsman Stephen Colbert in 2006.

Huffington had a big year in 2008, guiding her liberal-leaning news and blog site to record traffic during the U.S. election season.

Thanks to everyone who voted.

Comments

[123dee]

Congratulations Arianna

[bwilder]

You go girl!

[ulrich27]

Congratulations Arianna,
You and Huffington Post are a very crucial part of our media landscape.
We need objective, intelligent and to the point reporting.
Unfortunately this seems to be rare these days in this country.

[fiberoptimist]

Congratulations dahling. You deserve it. You go gURL!

[gladys46]

Well deserved, well done Arianna ... thanks for this "show" !!!!

[rockyb26]

Congratulations! HuffPo was my introduction to the blogosphere during the election and I'm a loyal fan from here on!

[lavici]

dear arianna i first saw you once in a bill maher real time and was impressed by your witty, sharp and right on the nail comments. all eloquently said with a smile... so congrats for your award. sorry about the greek riots and since i found the huff post i love it.

only problem? i've written 3 times to info@ asking a question... and no answer...

[johnnynyc]

No, she's not giving you her phone number.

[macraw71]

Congratulations Arianna...I love Huffingtonpost and read it a few times a day. It has replaced the Nytimes as my first stop when reading about news and politics.

[spinns17]

congrats huff.

[Deparis]

Congrats Arianna, well deserved. I feel kind of like part of it and that's a good feeling! Now let's get back to work and make it FOUR MORE YEARS!!!

[freeda7]

Congrats Arriana beyond well deserved!!

[swift goat pet for truth]

Why is this news on Huff Po?

Nah, seriously, well deserved.

[GoogleMaster]

She invented all this, she deserves the awards.

[johnnynyc]

Actually Drudge Report pretty much invented the news aggregator model.

This is just Drudge Report with pretty pictures.

[alevraj]

So well deserved!! You are so inspirational, and such a role model to all women. Thank you for your guidance and grace.... Enjoy!

[Deparis]

Why only to women?

[kingmiller]

cool - ari is the woman who has created a usable up to the minute news outlet, and she deserves her award.