Meanings
plural HuffPosters
- A writer at HuffPost; a HuffPost employee.
Granted, the HuffPosters took some creative license (and later corrected their error).
2015 April 10, The Nose, “It’s a red alert! Communist flag flies over state Capitol”, in The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., page A75 more examples
You’ll probably find us HuffPosters drinking together at Townhouse Tavern or at the Fox and Hounds when the weather gets nicer.
2009 February 4, Emily Leaman, quoting Jason Linkins, “The Blogger Beat: Eat the Press”, in Washingtonian, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2020And I have implored HuffPosters—without much success, I must admit—to eat lunch away from their desks.
2014, Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Happier Life, WH Allen, →ISBN, page 54Before 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.
2014 March 22, Janice Turner, “Don’t mess with Arianna Huffington”, in The Times, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2021Two 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.
2019 July 23, Maxwell Strachan, “The Fall Of Mic Was A Warning”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2021The HuffPosters were very cute and mostly smart but painfully preadult. They certainly hadn’t learned which fashion trends to ignore.
2020, Ben Widdicombe, Gatecrasher: How I Helped the Rich Become Famous and Ruin the World, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 230
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