Nomvuyo Mzamane v. Huffington Post [1]

On October 3, 2008, Nomvuyo Mzamane, the former headmistress of Oprah Winfrey's South African Leadership Academy for Girls, filed a defamation lawsuit in Pennsylvania state court against online news site and group blog The Huffington Post [2], its owner Ariana Huffington, and blogger and publicity expert Joan Stewart [3].  She also filed a separate lawsuit against Oprah Winfrey.

On November 7, 2007, Stewart published a blog post [4] on The Publicity Hound's Blog [5], in which she commented on Winfrey's efforts to manage the public relations fallout from a sexual abuse scandal at the Academy.  In the post, Stewart falsely stated that Mzamane had been charged with a crime in connection with the scandal.  On November 19, 2007, Stewart republished the statement in a posting on The Huffington Post [6].  In her lawsuit, Mzamane claimed that this statement was defamatory.  

According to the Media Bloggers Association's Legal Blog [7], the parties settled in December 2008.  The Huffington Post and Stewart both agreed to post apologies alongside the original posts (here [4], here [6]), but they did not make any payments or provide any other consideration.