Arianna Huffington signs off
Published 10:47 am Thursday, August 11, 2016
NEW YORK — The Huffington Post is going to be without a Huffington.
Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post’s editor-in-chief, announced Thursday that she’s leaving to head a new health, wellbeing and productivity startup.
The one-time conservative commentator oversaw explosive growth at the liberal online blog and news site that she co-founded in 2005, which went on to win a Pulitzer in less than a decade.
“I thought HuffPost would be my last act,” Huffington said in a tweet . “But I’ve decided to step down as HuffPost’s editor-in-chief to run my new venture, Thrive Global.”
The Huffington Post is now owned by Verizon Communications Inc., and her departure comes several weeks after Verizon said it was buying the media properties of Yahoo Inc. for about $4.8 billion. Representatives for New York-based Verizon and The Huffington Post did not respond to a request for comment Thursday morning