Since
its founding nearly 13 years ago, The Huffington Post has relied
heavily on unpaid contributors, whose ranks included aspiring writers,
citizen journalists and celebrities from the Rolodex of the site’s
co-founder Arianna Huffington.
...On Thursday, it said it was immediately dissolving its
self-publishing contributors platform — which has mushroomed to include
100,000 writers — in what is perhaps the most significant break from the
past under its editor in chief, Lydia Polgreen...
(Recently) a contributor with the byline Waqas KH published an article about Felix Sater, an associate of President Trump, that he had been paid to post. The site has since deleted the article.
Click the link about Sater and you'll learn it credits my Belfast buddy Dean Sterling Jones whose whizbang reporting appears to have contributed to the HuffPost's decision to axe unpaid contributors, some of whom include some of the world's most famous celebrity doctors as well as some less well-known physicians.
Yesterday I Google-searched MD and HuffingtonPost.com and turned up a baker's dozen of physician columnists.
I can confirm that all blogs on the HuffPost contributors platform have been shut down, as of yesterday (1/18).
In alphabetical order, below are the thirteen names I sent her. Click the images to go to their HuffPost page listing their published articles.
If there are other HuffPost physician columnists I missed, feel free to e-mail me the details. I'll verify the information with Ms. O'Neill and append to this item.
Finally, I've got a follow up inquiry in to Ms. O'Neill asking if Dean Ornish MD (see below) is still the publication's medical editor.
