Rome, January 19 2012 – the Espresso Group and Huffington Post Media Group are to set up a joint venture to launch Huffington Post Italy. Huffington Post Italy will benefit from the publishing expertise and leadership of the Espresso Group and from the extremely successful formula of The Huffington Post, one of the most important American news websites which mixes context and state-of-the-art interactive features, with 36 million unique visitors per month. With this deal the Espresso Group, already a market leader in online news in Italian with Repubblica.it which has a monthly readership of 10.1 million unique users, gives a new boost to its development on digital platforms.