The official launch of the new site includes an interview with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

“There is clearly a demand in the US for the Guardian perspective on global news and comment,” said Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian's editor, according to the Irish Examiner.

Guardian America, with an eight-person editorial team based in Washington DC, will also utilise video news feeds with audio and video footage from its in-house team.

“The Guardian’s already-huge US audience shows that they must be doing something right,” Tomasky said.

“What we’ll try to do is to bring those American readers the best and most relevant of what London produces every day and combine it with political and cultural coverage of the States that is more geared toward a US audience’s interests but staying faithful to the Guardian sensibility,” he added.

Emily Bell, Guardian News and Media’s director of digital content, said the Guardian hopes to make the most of the new site during the American primaries and after.

“At a time when many media organisations are cutting back, we are making a significant investment in our journalism, creating a new type of multimedia content which showcases the best Guardian journalism and story-telling in all its forms,” she said.

Guardian has tailored many user services and facilities, from holidays to dating, to the US market, which will be introduced later on and will eventually bring in more advertising opportunities.

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