Arianna Huffington Stepping Down As Editor-In-Chief Of The Huffington Post

MUNICH/GERMANY - JANUARY 19: Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post) gestures during a panel discussion of the DLD16 (Digital-Life-Design) Conference at the HVB Forum on January 19, 2016 in Munich, Germany. DLD is a glo... MUNICH/GERMANY - JANUARY 19: Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post) gestures during a panel discussion of the DLD16 (Digital-Life-Design) Conference at the HVB Forum on January 19, 2016 in Munich, Germany. DLD is a global network of innovation, digitization, science and culture, which connects business, creative and social leaders, opinion formers and influencers for crossover conversation and inspiration. (Photo: picture alliance / Jan Haas)/picture alliance Photo by: Jan Haas/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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Arianna Huffington, who founded digital media juggernaut the Huffington Post 11 years ago, is stepping down from her post as editor-in-chief to focus on her global health and wellness startup.

Huffington will leave the company in coming weeks to run Thrive Global, a company focused on working with employers to improve the well-being of their staffers, the Wall Street Journal first reported. When the venture secured Series A funding last week, Huffington said it became clear she could not carry on with both ventures.

“I really thought I could do both, but as we started building it up, I realized that it really needed my full attention,” she told the Journal. “It is important to know when one door closes and another opens and I felt that moment had arrived.”

Huffington broke into the health business with a string of books focused on better living. Her latest, “The Sleep Revolution,” was published in April.

The 66-year-old Greek native co-founded Huffington Post in 2005 with Kenneth Lerer, Jonah Peretti, and the late Andrew Breitbart, each of whom went on to become major players in digital media.

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  1. She got her start as an anti-Clinton back in the 90s. How appropriate that she won’t be around for the second Clinton administration.

  2. Maybe HuffPo can stop publishing anti-science, anti-vax bullshit now?

  3. The Huff-post is edited?

  4. Avatar for brucea brucea says:

    > “Huffington will leave the company in coming weeks to run Thrive Global, a company focused on working with employers to improve the well-being of their staffers”

    One way to “improve the well-being of their staffers” might be to actually pay the people who create your product.

  5. Pay no attention to newbie (actually beej) lazyriver. It won’t be around long.

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