Huffington Post to back Investigative Journalism Team

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Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, wants to support the ailing investigative journalism in the USA. Huffington is collaborating with the foundation "The Atlantic Philanthropies" to launch the Huffington Post Investigative Fund with an initial budget of $1.75 million. Ten employees and further free-lance journalists uncover mainly stories from the American economy. The results of their work will be available for any publication or Web site to use for free but just after HuffPost have posted the news.
Huffington said she hopes to encourage others to fund similar ventures. Foundation spending to support journalists is a promising trend, like the New Yorker journalist office which started with ten million dollar and 24 employees the "Pro Publica".

In a recent Interview with Leif Kramp and Stephan Weichert pubished in Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Arianna Huffington spoke about the journalistic form of the blog. "As one of the most exciting developments I still regard the so-called "citizen journalism", says Huffington. Her opinion is that Bloggers love to analyze a history, instead of traditional media which dedicate fast to the next subject.

Read the whole interview with Arianna Huffington in "Wozu noch Zeitungen? Wie das Internet die Presse revolutioniert".

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