Fairfax Media Beats Out Yahoo!7, News Corp for HuffPost Australia Partnership

Fourteenth international edition will launch in the second quarter of 2015

“We expect big things from Australia.”

So says Huffington Post chief executive officer Jimmy Maymann of the outlet’s plans to launch a 14th international edition in the second quarter of 2015. The move, officially declared Monday morning AU time, comes on the heels of similar moves by BuzzFeed and Mashable. From the announcement:

“Australia is a rare combination of both a digitally advanced economy and a relatively young digital media market,” Maymann notes. “Australia is the third largest digital ad market in Asia, and has the third highest rate of social media penetration in the world.”

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