Huffpost UK will stop hosting bloggers who are “commercially invested” in their subject matters, editor Polly Curtis has said as part of a raft of changes to the website’s blogging sphere.

Curtis said in a blog post that as the media landscape had changed – becoming crowded in recent years with new platforms and social media channels – so to had Huffpost’s approach to blogging.

The news website has also said that,  separately from the blogging platform, it will introduce paid columnists for the first time.