The Huffington Post launched its Spanish edition last
Thursday. El Huffington Post emerges
as the new platform for a global conversation for people of Spain and the
global Spanish-speaking community.
HuffPo announced last December its partnership with Spanish
newspaper El País, as
Newsbizblog reported. El País's parent company PRISA is also said to own 50 percent of El Huffington Post, reported Journalism.co.uk.
"El Huffington Post will be rooted in Spanish culture, will
be run by Spanish journalists, and, like Spain itself, will have a very
distinct personality and its own way of approaching the world," wrote
Arianna Huffington in an
announcement.
"Faithful
to the spirit that turned the Huffington Post into an essential daily read for
millions of U.S. readers, we want to explore the new possibilities offered to
Spanish society by a 100% online medium: a space in which information and analysis are
enriched by the contributions of readers who now have the ability to interact,
react and debate with journalists and newsmakers. Now more than ever, citizens
want to participate in current events and El Huffington Post wants to become
their meeting place," according
to Montserrat Domínguez, El Huffington Post's editorial director.
El Huffington Post emphasises on giving a prominent role to
the readers: news are no longer stories written and brought to an end by
journalists; news are the beginning of the debate, reported
El País.
The website is constructed upon three spaces: a column for
the hard news, another one for the soft news, related to society and
celebrities, and a third one for bloggers. El Huffington Post's most appealing
part is its bloggers list (in total 60) which includes leaders in politics such
as Esteban
González Pons, Popular Party deputy secretary of programs or Alfredo
Pérez Rubalcaba, secretary general of the Socialist Party; or in sciences
such as María
Blasco, head of the National Cancer Research. As well as filmmaker Álex
de la Iglesia, activist of the 15-M movement Pablo
Prieto, sports journalist Eduardo
Verdú, or hip hop artist El
Meswy, among others.
The Huffington Post has today more than 9,000 bloggers, and 200
journalists among UK, France and Canada editions. The next expansion
will be Italy, as HuffPo partnered with L'Espresso in January, reported paidContent.
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