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Huffington Post More Valuable Than A.H. Belo

Posted on December 2nd, 2008 9:58am by Tim Rogers
Filed under Business, Media, www.

Wick, earlier you took a look at A.H. Belo’s balance sheet and asked how bad things were over there. AdAge reports this morning on a cash infusion that the Huffington Post just got. It took $25 million on a $100 million valuation, which puts it way ahead of A.H. Belo (with a market cap of $36 million). By my count, the Huff Post has about 50 employees. A.H. Belo has, um, slightly more than that.

Update: A.H. Belo has 3,700 employees.

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6 Comments to “Huffington Post More Valuable Than A.H. Belo”
  • TLS @ December 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 am

    For what it is worth I visit Huffington Post probably 6 times a day and during the election it was at least once an hour. I visit the DMN site just once a day. Those 50 huff post employees bring it.

  • Richard @ December 2nd, 2008 at 10:47 am

    someone with cash needs to buy Belo’s stock; it will prove to be a great investment. Worse case right now if belo is working feverishly to become private.

  • mediawonk @ December 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 am

    Problem is, while HuffPo is doing an increasing amount of original reporting, it still relies on a lot of “old media” reporting (hence all the links to newspapers, TV networks, etc.) for detail.

    The blog sites can get by with a smaller staff because of this, while newspapers (and TV news operations to a lesser extent) struggle to pay for the infrastructure of reporters/editors needed to assemble stories on a daily basis.

    While the major dailies went far too long with bureaucratic infrastructures with a ton of fat (and in some cases are just now getting down to managable staffing levels), they can’t be expected to get by on 50 employees like HuffPo.

  • Rodknee @ December 2nd, 2008 at 11:24 am

    That’s all fine and well, but the HuffPo comics suck.

  • Robb @ December 2nd, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    How does Huffington Post compare to Drudge Report (financially, not politically)?

  • Billusa99 @ December 2nd, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    Belo, every month, “struggles [LESS] to pay for the infrastructure of reporters/editors needed to assemble stories on a daily basis” because all their damn news nowadays comes from wire reports!

    Arianna is a heck of lot more interesting and thoughtful to listen to than Bob Dechard. Plus, she doesn’t throw her “Briefs” in my yard.