Arianna Huffington’s Journalism Charity Helps Nobody but Herself [Philanthrophy]

When the Huffington Post Investigative Fund was announced last March, Arianna Huffington modestly described its mission as " to save investigative journalism ." Ten months later, it’s safe to say the fund’s chief accomplishment is providing free scoops to the Huffington Post. (And burnishing Huffington’s reputation and monstrous ego, but that goes without saying.) The fund is supposed act as a sort of disembodied newspaper i-team, with experienced reporters and editors bankrolled by tax-exempt donations from the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy doing the time-consuming and expensive investigative work that strapped newspapers are increasingly abandoning. It is axiomatic that investigative reporting is the most precious casu...