Huffington Post to launch French edition with Le Monde

The Huffington Post has partnered with Le Monde and Les Nouvelles Editions Independantes to launch Le Huffington Post, an international version of the American site

Posted: 10 October 2011 By: Rachel McAthy

Le Huffington Post will be the first non-English language version of the site, which launched in the UK earlier this year

The Huffington Post has teamed up with French publishers Le Monde and Les Nouvelles Editions Independantes to launch Le Huffington Post, a French version of its US news site.

According to an announcement by the Huffington Post the new site will "combine the local editorial resources of Le Monde" with the Post's original reporting, aggregation, commentary and network of bloggers.

Each of the three partners will be shareholders in Le Huffington Post, which is due to launch in November.In an interview with Le Monde, president and editor-in-chief of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group, Arianna Huffington, said she has always admired Le Monde and "loved both the political and cultural coverage".

"Le Huffington Post will bring together all the best of the journalism produced in any area, with our own attitude and a sense of fun and a sense of drama where appropriate and great pictures and great technology that makes it possible for others to engage, as well as honouring the best of journalism, accuracy, fact checking and fairness.

"The idea will be to curate the best writing from Le Monde and from others that bring to our readers everything they need to know about politics, culture, style, fashion."

She added that a team of French journalists are currently being brought together to run the new site from Paris.
In the interview with Le Monde, Huffington added that she is currently in negotiations to open a site in Brazil and is also interested in Spain, Turkey and Italy.This will be the Huffington Post's first non-English language site, following the launch of Huffington Post UK earlier this year.

Speaking at Journalism.co.uk's news:rewired conference in London on Thursday (6 October), editor-in-chief of the UK site Carla Buzasi revealed that the UK site had received 4.8 million visits in August.

AOL launches rebranded sports website

10 October 2011

By Press Gazette

AOL UK has announced the launch of a new sports site called AOL Sport, which will replace its previous sports website fanhouse.co.uk.
The site has been launched in partnership with Sporting Life, and will see its sports news, reviews, fixtures, results and tables integrated into AOL Sport.
AOL said the partnership built on an existing deal with Sporting Life in which it provided limited fixtures and results for Fanhouse.
The new website will cover football, tennis, rugby, golf, horse racing, cricket, boxing and the Olympics.
Sporting Life, which is owned by Sky, will also look to integrate its Sky Bet service into AOL Sport.
“At AOL we’re known for delivering great journalism. But sports fans want data too – the facts, the results, great analysis, all of the detail. There is no stronger company that can deliver both of those than Sky, and in Sporting Life, we already have a brand our users trust” said Noel Penzer, the vice president of Huffington Post Media Group, Europe and Latin America.
Meanwhile, the Huffington Post is reportedly planning a French edition called Le Huffington Post, in which two partners will share equity – The Le Monde Group and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendante.
The UK version of the website launched in July.

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