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HuffPoster
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English
Etymology
From en HuffPost er occupation.
Noun
A writer at HuffPost; a HuffPost employee.
en Emily Leaman Jason Linkins The Blogger Beat: Eat the Press Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com/2009/02/04/the-blogger-beat-eat-the-press/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201125232748/https://www.washingtonian.com/2009/02/04/the-blogger-beat-eat-the-press/ 25 November 2020 4 February 2009 You’ll probably find us HuffPosters drinking together at Townhouse Tavern or at the Fox and Hounds when the weather gets nicer.
en w:Arianna Huffington Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Happier Life WH Allen 2014 54 9780753555408 And I have implored HuffPosters—without much success, I must admit—to eat lunch away from their desks.
en w:Janice Turner Don’t mess with Arianna Huffington w:The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dont-mess-with-arianna-huffington-k5tt6q9s0w2 22 March 2014 https://archive.ph/IwR6e 14 November 2021 Before she arrives I am shown around The Huffington Post’s offices on lower Broadway, New York. Besides the usual hipster internet start-up perks of free healthy snacks and a ping-pong table, there are two nap rooms you can book for 30-minute sessions. The idea is to restore energy and creativity, although it also eliminates a major reason HuffPosters might need to go home.
en The Nose It’s a red alert! Communist flag flies over state Capitol w:The News Tribune Tacoma, Wash. 10 April 2015 A7 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/677339461/ Granted, the HuffPosters took some creative license (and later corrected their error).
en Maxwell Strachan The Fall Of Mic Was A Warning w:HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/archive/au/entry/the-fall-of-mic-was-a-warning_au_5d373375e4b0419fd333b9e2 23 July 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20211017055607/https://www.huffpost.com/archive/au/entry/the-fall-of-mic-was-a-warning_au_5d373375e4b0419fd333b9e2 17 October 2021 Two recently laid-off journalists, ex-HuffPoster Laura Bassett and ex-BuzzFeeder John Stanton, even launched an advocacy group to bring attention to the “existential threat” the tech giants present to the industry.
en Ben Widdicombe Gatecrasher: How I Helped the Rich Become Famous and Ruin the World w:Simon & Schuster 2020 230 9781982128838 The HuffPosters were very cute and mostly smart but painfully preadult. They certainly hadn’t learned which fashion trends to ignore.