NYT: Huffington Post Will Add Original Reporting to Its Blog

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Huffington Post Will Add Original Reporting to Its Blog
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: November 30, 2006

The Huffington Post, which started about 18 months ago as a political Web site for celebrity bloggers, is preparing to venture into original reporting, with plans to cover Congress and, already, the 2008 presidential campaign.

Arianna Huffington, who started HuffingtonPost.com, said yesterday that the site had hired Melinda Henneberger, a print journalist most recently with Newsweek magazine, as its political editor. The site has about 2.3 million unique visitors a month, making it one of the more popular blog sites.

Ms. Huffington said Ms. Henneberger would hire a number of other journalists to begin producing original content, “with attitude.”

“Now is the time to generate our own original content,” Ms. Huffington said. “It was always our intention, once we had the money, to hire people to do reporting.”

Softbank Capital, a venture capital group, invested $5 million in the site earlier this year. Ms. Huffington said she planned to hire investigative reporters as well as a multimedia team to do video reports and wanted to make the site more interactive....

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/technology/30paper.html?bl&ex=1165035600&en=2388142bc6f24a95&ei=5087%0A

[Pirate Smile]

1. Awesome.

[hwmnbn]

2. I vote for lala_rawraw to join that staff.....

She's done great work, it's a perfect fit for huffpo.

Now where's Arriana's phone number...... :smoke:

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

6. lala

is one of the HuffPost bloggers, so maybe that will happen.

[Cha]

3. This is newsworthy..and it

begins!

[applegrove]

4. It is fantastic!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. Where do I send my resume?

I'm a progressive with a masters in journalism, dammit!