Huffington Post: Sinclair becomes editor-in-chief
The influential U.S. online newspaper Huffington Post will also launch in France starting Monday. Journalist Anne Sinclair will take over as editor-in-chief, the organizers announced on Wednesday.
The 63-year-old Sinclair has made a name for herself as a journalist in France for many years. She is the wife of the former Director General of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Like its US counterpart, the French edition of the Huffington Post will offer a mixture of opinion articles, news, blogs and entertainment. Well-known personalities will also be among the authors. The Huffington Post's partner in France is the Le Monde media group.
Anne Sinclair, Arianna Huffington, founder of the Hufftington Post, David Kessler, director of the French edition, and editorial director Paul Ackermann will present the French edition to the media on Monday. Ackermann is a former reporter for the weekly magazine L'Hebdo in French-speaking Switzerland. Among other things, he worked on the magazine's "Bondy Blog", which reported on the youth riots in France's suburbs. Bondy is a Parisian suburb. The Le Monde media group and the Huffington Post signed an agreement at the beginning of October to set up the French edition of HuffPo.
The third partner is the banker Matthieu Pigasse. The new French-language online portal will merge with the blogger platform Le Post, which is controlled by Le Monde. The Hufftington Post has been in existence since 2005 and was acquired by the online portal AOL for 315 million dollars in February 2010. In addition to the USA, the Hufftington Post also operates its own journalistic offerings in Canada and the UK. (SDA)
