Huffington Post Will Add Original Reporting to Its Blog

The Huffington Post, which started about 18 months ago as a political Web site for celebrity bloggers and now attracks about 2.3 million unique visitors a month, is preparing to venture into original reporting, with plans to cover Congress and the 2008 presidential campaign, The New York Times reports.

Henneberger will hire a number of other journalists to begin producing original content, “with attitude,” Huffington said. The site also plans to hire investigative reporters and a multimedia team to do video reports.

“Now is the time to generate our own original content,” Huffington said. “It was always our intention, once we had the money, to hire people to do reporting.”

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