Stephanie Barna, editor of the Charleston City Paper, blogs her encounter with the Huffington Post guruess on editor.ccpblogs.com:

“I’m currently in Portland at the annual Association of Alternative Newsweeklies convention where we’ve had a round-up of interesting speakers, from Arianna Huffington to Bill Hightower.

Unfortunately, I missed Huffington’s panel, but encountered her afterwards signing books. As she was inscribing my copy, she queried me on where I was from and asked if I was interested in “covering the races.” A bit flustered, all I could think of was, you know, the races - blacks, whites, etc. Being from Charleston, it was the first thing that popped into my head. But then I realized she meant election races. We exchanged cards and I quickly left to find some colleagues to tell me what the hell I had missed in the seminar. Turns out, she’s interested in altweeklies linking with the Huffington Post, enabling her site to become a hub for all the races across the country.”