NYT to HuffPo: Stop Using Parentlode Name

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By: Jim Romenesko | Poynter.org

The New York Times has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Arianna Huffington, saying her new Parentlode blog is a rip-off of the newspaper’s Motherlode site. “While we are flattered by your focus on our blog and your apparent fondness for its name, we obviously cannot permit you to adopt a name whose sole purpose is to create an association in the minds of readers with our ‘Motherlode’ blog,” the paper tells Huffington, who recently hired Motherlode blogger Lisa Belkin away from the Times to write HuffPo’s Parentlode blog.































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