New York - Politics and news website The Huffington Post will name former CBSNews.com general manager Betsy Morgan as its new chief executive today, The New York Times reported.

"Getting somebody like this to come to our site says a boatload about where the industry is going," acting CEO Kenneth Lerer told The Times.

Lerer, who co-founded the site two years ago with political commentator Ariana Huffington, will become chairman of the company.

"Huffington Post has a lot of smart editors working for it," Morgan told The Times, adding that it can "take a news story and build a community of debate around it."

The Huffington Post now claims 3.5 million monthly unique users.

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