Guardian to appoint US editor as part of Atlantic push
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has confirmed the newspaper will appoint a New York based US editor, part of its expansion in America.
Rusbridger told a Yahoo! News blogger they would shortly be announcing a new editor, as part of a digital venture which "will be significantly larger than anything we've done in the States before."
"We're not in a position to say more than that at the moment," Rusbridger said, adding: "the United States is going to be a more important part of what we do in the future."
GNM have also appointed a new chief revenue officer in New York, who has previously worked at the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.
GNM are holding a technology conference called Activate New York in April, their first American-based conference. It promises to "bring together many of the world's brightest and most influential figures to debate how technology is driving positive social change on a global scale."
Rusbridger also hinted at forming a possible collaboration with OpenLeaks, a document-leaking platform launched by a WikiLeaks defector, Daniel Domscheit-Berg.
In a Guardian blog, Roy Greenslade also predicted the paper may develop an in-house document-leaking system, echoing a similar project planned by the New York Times.
"We haven't yet definitively worked out how effectively we could build the technology," said Rusbridger. "It's an ongoing dilemma that we're thinking about."