AOL’s Huffington Post Kills Story Pitch Critical of Uber

Washington Post: Uber announced that Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington would be joining its board of directors, a move that put the site’s reporters in an instant bind. To fight the notion that HuffPost would somehow take it easy on Uber because of these ties, Huffington’s folks noted that her news operation has churned out various hard-hitting stories on Uber while the announcement was “impending.” There was an omission, however.