Journalism Futures 3

Does The Huffington Post have a local dimension? Where else does it operate?

The Huffington Post seems to be creating its own rules in terms of growth, whilst many other news outlets and providers struggle to deal with the decline in traditional means of news consumption and appear uneasy due to more and more news consumers looking online for their information.

The Huffington Post is embracing this new, mixed economy, journalism on local, national and internationl levels.

From its original incarnation, The national American version in 2005, it has evolved not only internationally, but locally as well. In 2008 the HuffPost Chicago first appeared, followed a year later by the HuffPost New York, HuffPost Denver and the HuffPost Los Angeles in 2009.

Whilst this expansion across the United States was underway, in 2011 the company took their publication international, with the HuffPost Canada and the HuffPostUK in the May and the July respectively.

Not content with this however, there are further plans. Later this year we will see the Posts first non-english-language edition, Le Huffington Post, and further still, there may be more European editions being considered for Spain, Germany and Turkey as well as further afield for Japan.