Relationships:
Amanda Michel. Senior Editor, Strategy & Partnerships @Guardian. Co-founder of SparkCamp. Former lives at ProPublica, Huffington Post.
https://archive.is/2YS4U
Amanda Michel served as Berkman's Communications Director from March, 2004 through November, 2006. She is currently working as the Director of Participation for NewAssignment.net, an open source reporting project. Before coming to the Berkman Center, Amanda worked on the Dean and Kerry campaigns. She was National Director of Generation Dean, Howard Dean's official youth outreach program. On the Kerry campaign, Amanda created and directed the Media Corps program, the campaign's grassroots media effort, and later in the campaign she and Zack Exley supervised Ohio's Internet-field operation. Along with other members of the Kerry Internet team, Amanda also co-founded the New Organizing Institute, which trains young techies and organizers the essentials of campaigning online.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wg_home/bio_amichel https://archive.is/6x4YY
4Chan's Moot Joins Lerer Ventures As An Advisor
the New York City seed fund started by Ken and Ben Lerer
Ken Lerer is the chairman of the Huffington Post
his son, Ben, is the CEO and founder of Thrillist.
Lerer Ventures advisors Eric Hippeau (CEO of the Huffington Post),
and Jonah Peretti (CEO of Buzzfeed and co-founder of the Huffington Post).
run on a day-to-day basis by partner Jordan Cooper
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/08/moot-lerer-ventures/ https://archive.is/ItnYu
Venture capitalist Ken Lerer tried to arrange internships at Buzzfeed for the daughters of Sony Entertainment C.E.O. Michael Lynton and his friend Jake Winebaum, leaked emails reveal.
http://www.politico.com/media/story/2015/04/ken-lerer-buzzfeed-is-rude-about-placing-friends-in-internships-003675 https://archive.is/ktKtH
Harold Ickes, communist operative turned lawyer representing mafia clients ran a dirty tricks office in the Clinton white house
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1624 https://archive.is/baF3l
Harold Ickes placed in charge of George Soros and Arianna Huffington's Shadow Party
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6706 https://archive.is/qhIkD
The Coral Project is a collaboration between Mozilla, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Berkman Center "to make comments safer". The international press freedom group WAN-IFRA is also involved. The project is funded by the Knight Foundation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2015/05/19/the-coral-project-is-hiring/ https://archive.is/O1rra
https://medium.com/the-coral-project https://archive.is/2SLEx
The Coral Project is run by Andrew Losowsky, former books editor for the Huffington Post, recipient of a Knight Foundation fellowship at Stanford University, and recently hired as associate professor at The New School.
https://archive.is/L6WsZ
Vidya Ramalingam is a HuffPo writer
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vidhya-ramalingam/ https://archive.is/jEpVw
Peter Daou and James Boyce charge that Huffington and partner Ken Lerer designed the website from a plan they had presented them, and in doing so, violated a handshake agreement to work together, according to a lawsuit to be filed in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
http://www.politico.com/story/2010/11/2-dems-huffington-stole-our-idea-045168 https://archive.is/e4dfp