Coordinates	41°52′55″N87°37′40″N
company name	JWT
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company type	Subsidiary of WPP Group
foundation	(1864)
location city	New York, New York
location country	USA
industry	Advertising
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JWT is one of the largest advertising agencies in the United States and the fourth-largest in the world. It is one of the key companies of Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP Group (NASDAQ:WPPGY) and is headquartered in New York. The global agency is led by Worldwide Chairman and Global CEO Bob Jeffrey who took over the role in 1998. JWT was named Adweek magazine's 2009 "Global Agency of the Year."

History

The company that was to become JWT was founded by William James Carlton in 1864. Carlton's company was renamed by James Walter Thompson in 1877 to ''The James Walter Thompson Company'', which eventually became ''J. Walter Thompson''. It was acquired by WPP Group in 1987. In 2005, the agency was "relaunched" by dropping the name ''J. Walter Thompson'' in exchange for ''JWT''.

JWT claims to be the first agency to:

build the first full-service advertising agency create the first international network. Its London office opened in 1899. By 1930, the agency had established offices in some 30 countries. pioneer ad careers for women. It hired the first female creative director in 1908. create the first-ever testimonial ad (it was for Pond's Cold Cream), in 1925. invent the grilled cheese sandwich for its client Kraft in 1930.

produce the first-ever TV commercial in 1939.

develop account planning in 1968. Stephen King is considered the father of account planning. create the first advertisement in Second Life (Ford Argentina) be the first agency to create its own television Christmas special in 2009, Macy's "Yes, Virginia" (JWT New York)

Business

JWT's network has nearly 10,000 employees in more than 200 offices in over 90 countries, who serve over 1,200 clients.

Clients of JWT include:

Bayer

Bloomberg

Cadbury

DTC

Ford

HSBC

Huggies

Johnson & Johnson

Kellogg

Kimberly-Clark

Macy's

Nestlé

Nokia

Rolex

Royal Caribbean

Shell

Tim Hortons

Unilever

United States Marine Corps

Transamerica

JWT New York

JWT New York is the headquarters of JWT Worldwide as well as the largest of JWT’s 200-plus offices, serving clients like Bloomberg, Cadbury, Diageo, DTC, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Royal Caribbean and Schick, among others. In March 2010, David Eastman was named CEO JWT North America. He is also the worldwide digital director for JWT. Eastman's first acquisition was the full-service, award-winning digital shop Digitaria. The San-Diego based agency was acquired in August 2010. In July 2011, Eastman also acquired the Los Angeles-based shopper marketing firm Lunchbox.

JWT INSIDE

JWT INSIDE provides organizations with advertising, marketing and employee communications services. Measurement tools, consulting resources and strategic approaches are employed to put people in jobs and keep the workforce engaged. The agency has 11 locations offices across North America and internationally. It is a subsidiary of JWT. Its parent company is WPP.

JWT Atlanta

JWT Atlanta is a top 10 office in the JWT network and services a roster of clients including the United States Marine Corps, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Transamerica, Shell, Jiffy Lube and FEMA, among others. With offices in Atlanta, Dallas and Houston, JWT Atlanta provides fully-integrated engagement services including creative development, planning, digital strategy, social media, media planning and buying, UX, website design/development, search and analytics. Today, the full-service Atlanta office is led by Rob Quish, a member of JWT North America’s management team and CEO of JWT INSIDE.

References

External links

JWT Global Web site

JWTIntelligence

JWT's AnxietyIndex

JWT INSIDE

JWT Atlanta Web site

JWT Atlanta's Blog

J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) Collections in the Hartman Center at Duke University

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Coordinates	41°52′55″N87°37′40″N
name	Arianna Huffington
birth name	Arianna Stassinopoulos
birth date	July 15, 1950
birth place	Athens, Greece
spouse	Michael Huffington (1986–1997)
occupation	Columnist, editor
nationality	Greek & American
genre	Non-fiction, News
subject	Politics, spirituality, environment, liberalism
website	http://www.huffingtonpost.com }}

Arianna Huffington (born Arianna Stasinopoulos; ; July 15, 1950) is a Greek American author and syndicated columnist. She is best known as co-founder of the news website ''The Huffington Post''. A popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, she adopted more liberal political beliefs in the late 1990s. She is the ex-wife of former Republican congressman Michael Huffington.

In 2003, she ran as an independent candidate for Governor in the California recall election.

In 2009, Huffington was named as number 12 in ''Forbes'' first-ever list of the Most Influential Women In Media. She has also moved up to number 42 in ''The Guardian''s Top 100 in Media List.

On February 7, 2011, AOL announced it would acquire ''The Huffington Post'' for US$315 million and make Huffington president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which will include ''The Huffington Post'' and existing AOL properties such as Engadget, AOL Music, Patch Media, and StyleList.

Early life

Huffington was born Arianna Stasinopoúlou in Athens, Greece, the daughter of Konstantinos (a journalist and management consultant) and Elli (née Georgiadi) Stasinopoulos, and is the sister of Agapi (an author, speaker and performer). She moved to England at the age of 16, and studied economics at Girton College, Cambridge where she was President of the Cambridge Union.

In 1971, she appeared in an edition of ''Face the Music'' along with Bernard Levin. He was 42; she was 21. A relationship developed, of which she wrote, after his death: "He wasn't just the big love of my life, he was a mentor as a writer and a role model as a thinker." Huffington helped Levin with his spiritual quest. Huffington began writing books in the 1970s, with editorial help from Levin. For the BBC, the two traveled to music festivals around the world. They spent summers touring three-star restaurants in France. At the age of 30, she remained deeply in love with him but longed to have children; Levin never wanted to marry or have children. Huffington concluded that she must break away, and moved to New York in 1980.

Career

In the late 1980s, Huffington wrote several articles for ''National Review''. In 1981, she wrote a biography of Maria Callas, ''Maria Callas – The Woman Behind the Legend'', and in 1989, a biography of Pablo Picasso, ''Picasso: Creator and Destroyer''.

Huffington rose to national prominence during her husband's unsuccessful Senate bid in 1994. She became known as a reliable supporter of conservative causes such as Newt Gingrich's "Republican Revolution" and Bob Dole's 1996 candidacy for president. She teamed up with liberal comedian Al Franken as the conservative half of "Strange Bedfellows" during Comedy Central's coverage of the 1996 U.S. presidential election. For her work, she and the writing team of ''Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher'' were nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program. She has also made a few forays into acting with roles on shows such as ''Roseanne'', ''The L Word'', ''How I Met Your Mother'', ''Help Me Help You'', and the film ''EdTV''.

Huffington's politics began to shift back toward the left in the late 1990s. During the Yugoslav Wars, Huffington opposed United States intervention in the crisis. In 2000, she instigated the 'Shadow Conventions', which appeared at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia and the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles at Patriotic Hall.

Huffington heads The Detroit Project, a public interest group lobbying automakers to start producing cars running on alternative fuels. The project's 2003 TV ads, which equated driving sport utility vehicles to funding terrorism, proved to be particularly controversial, with some stations refusing to run them.

In a 2004 appearance on ''The Daily Show'' with Jon Stewart, she announced her endorsement of John Kerry by saying, "When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling." Huffington was a panel speaker during the 2005 California Democratic Party State Convention, held in Los Angeles. She also spoke at the 2004 College Democrats of America Convention in Boston, which was held in conjunction with the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Huffington is also associated with talk radio with CNN political commentator Mary Matalin called "Both Sides radio."

California recall election participation

Huffington was an independent candidate to recall California governor Gray Davis in the 2003 recall election. She described her candidacy against front runner Arnold Schwarzenegger as "the hybrid versus the Hummer," making reference to her ownership of a hybrid vehicle, the Toyota Prius, and Schwarzenegger's Hummer. The two would proceed to have a high-profile clash during the election's debate, during which both candidates were rebuked for making personal attacks.

Despite briefly retaining former U.S. Senator Dean Barkley as a campaign advisor and advertising executive Bill Hillsman as her media director, she dropped out of the race on September 30, 2003. Others attributed her exit to her inability to garner support for her candidacy, noting that polls showed that only about two percent of likely California voters planned to vote for her at the time of her withdrawal. Though she failed to stop the recall, Huffington's name remained on the ballot and she placed 5th, capturing 0.55% of the vote.

Media presence

In the 1970s, on the strength of her prominence in the Cambridge Union, Arianna Stassinopoulos was a frequent panelist on the weekly BBC Radio 4 political discussion programme, ''Any Questions?'', and the BBC television panel games ''Call My Bluff'' and ''Face the Music''. She was the first female host of the BBC's late night chat show ''Saturday Night at The Mill'', broadcast live from the foyer of the BBC's Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham. She was dropped from the show after just a few weeks in the role, and was replaced by Jenny Hanley.

Huffington's book ''The Fourth Instinct'' is based on the idea that all humans have an inherent spiritual yearning.

Huffington is the co-host of the weekly, nationally syndicated, public radio program ''Both Sides Now'', along with Mary Matalin, former top aide to the Bush/Cheney White House. Every week on ''Both Sides Now'', Huffington and Matalin discuss the nation's relevant political issues, offering both sides of every issue to the listeners. ''Both Sides Now'' is hosted by former Air Radio America President and ''HuffPost'' blogger Mark J. Green.

Huffington also has an Internet presence with her website ''The Huffington Post'', which features blogs and commentary from her and from a number of prominent liberal journalists, public officials, and celebrities.

Prior to ''The Huffington Post'', Huffington hosted a website called Ariannaonline.com. Her first foray into the Internet was a website called Resignation.com, which called for the resignation of President Bill Clinton and was a rallying place for conservatives opposing Clinton.

In November 2008, Huffington joined the cast of Seth MacFarlane's animated series, ''The Cleveland Show'', where she lends her voice to the wife of Tim the Bear, also named Arianna.

On November 17, 2008, Huffington substituted for Rachel Maddow on MSNBC's ''The Rachel Maddow Show''. The online website TV Newser has put forward the idea that she is in the running for a more permanent role as commentator or anchor at MSNBC.

Huffington was spoofed by actress Michaela Watkins on the November 22, 2008, episode of ''Saturday Night Live''.

Huffington was also spoofed on the first season of ''Tracey Ullman's State of the Union'' in 2008.

Huffington appeared as herself in the May 10, 2010, episode of the CBS sitcom ''How I Met Your Mother''.

Huffington participated in the 24th annual "Distinguished Speaker Series" at the University at Buffalo, NY., on September 16, 2010. She headlined a debate against radio co-host Mary Matalin on current world events, political issues, and the local Buffalo economy. The University at Buffalo "Distinguished Speaker Series" has featured a multitude of world-renowned politicians and celebrities such as; Tony Blair, Bill Nye, Jon Stewart, and the Dalai Lama.

Huffington offered to provide as many buses as necessary to transport those who want to go to Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on October 30, 2010 from the Huffington Post Headquarters in New York City. Ultimately, she paid for 150 buses to ferry almost 10,000 people from Citi Field in Queens to RFK Stadium in DC. The only self-promotion on her part was 'Huffington Post' written on the bracelets needed to get on the bus.

Huffington appeared as herself in the ''Family Guy'' episode "Brian Writes a Bestseller" on November 21, 2010, taking part in a discussion on a mock version of ''Real Time with Bill Maher'' about the quality of a book Brian Griffin authored in this episode.

Plagiarism claims

Huffington was accused of plagiarism for copying material for her book ''Maria Callas'' (1981); the claims were settled out of court in 1981, with Callas biographer Gerald Fitzgerald being paid "in the low five figures."

Lydia Gasman, an art history professor at the University of Virginia, claimed that Huffington’s 1988 biography of Pablo Picasso, ''Picasso: Creator and Destroyer'', included themes similar to those in her unpublished four-volume Ph.D. thesis. "What she did was steal twenty years of my work," Gasman told Maureen Orth in 1994. Gasman did not file suit.

Maureen Orth also reported that Huffington "borrowed heavily for her 1993 book, ''The Gods of Greece''."

Huffington met her future husband Michael Huffington in 1985. They were married a year later. They later established residency in Santa Barbara, California, in order for him to run in 1992 as a Republican for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which he won by a significant margin. Arianna campaigned for her husband, courting religious conservatives, arguing for smaller government and a reduction in welfare. In 1994, he narrowly lost the race for the U.S. Senate seat to California to incumbent Dianne Feinstein. The couple divorced in 1997. They have two daughters – Christina Sophia Huffington (b. 1 May 1989) and Isabella Diana Huffington (b. 15 May 1991).

Bibliography

''The Female Woman'' (1973) ISBN 0-7067-0098-8

''After Reason'' (1978) ISBN 0-8128-2465-2

''Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend'' (1981; 1993) ISBN 0-8154-1228-2

''The Gods of Greece'' (1993) ISBN 0-87113-554-X

''The Fourth Instinct'' (1994) ISBN 0-7432-6163-1

''Picasso: Creator and Destroyer'' (1996) ISBN 0-671-45446-3

''Greetings from the Lincoln Bedroom'' (1998) ISBN 0-517-39699-8

''How to Overthrow the Government'' (2000) ISBN 0-06-098831-2

''Pigs at the Trough'' (2003) ISBN 1-4000-4771-4

''Fanatics & Fools'' (2004) ISBN 1-4013-5213-8

''On Becoming Fearless...In Love, Work, and Life'' (2007) ISBN 0-316-16682-0

''Right is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe'' (2008) ISBN 978-0-307-26966-9

''Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream'' (2010) ISBN 0-307-71982-0

References

External links

Column archive at ''The Huffington Post''

Column archive at ''AlterNet''

Campaign contributions made by Arianna Huffington

Interviews and statements

YouTube: "Arianna Huffington video interview on The Alcove with Mark Molaro, 2008"

Video interview/discussion with Huffington and Robert Wright on Bloggingheads.tv

"7 Days in America" podcast

Arianna Huffington interview on the Tavis Smiley show. Watch her interview online. October 2006

Video of Arianna Huffington on The Hour

Arianna Huffington on her New Book ''Third World America'' – eo interview by ''Democracy Now!'', September 10, 2010

Arianna Huffington interviewed by Sophie Elmhirst on New Statesman, December 2010

Articles

McLellan, Diana. Arianna Huffington, ''Washingtonian'', May 1, 1994.

Los Angeles Shadow Convention; Aug 13–17, 2000

Arianna Huffington profile at the ''Left, Right and Center'' website

''Hurricane Arianna,'' article by Paul Harris, ''The Observer,'' December 10, 2006

''This is the Future of the News: The Arianna Huffington Interview'' by David Weinberger for ''Wired,'' May 15, 2007

The Times: Arianna Huffington: The Super Blogger

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