The site, launched by Arianna Huffington in May last year, has hired Melinda Henneberger, a journalist from Newsweek, to be political editor, and according to the New York Times, has plans to cover Congress issues and the 2008 presidential campaign.
Huffington said: "Now is the time to generate our own original content. It was always our intention, once we had the money, to hire people to do reporting."
At the moment, the site aggregates news headlines from external sources, as well as featuring blogs from numerous contributors, including celebrities such as Burt Bacharach and Alex Baldwin.
The website ran into trouble earlier this year when it used some quotes from the actor and director George Clooney and presented it as a blog he had written for the site. It was removed after Clooney objected.
Huffington is a writer and broadcaster. She first came to prominence in 1974 when she published 'The Female Woman: An Argument Against Women's Liberation for Female Emancipation', a rebuttal to Germaine Greer's feminist polemic 'The Female Eunuch' that was published under Huffington's maiden name, Arianna Stassinopoulos.
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