{"id":238424,"date":"2016-08-11T15:31:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T15:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=238424"},"modified":"2016-08-11T15:31:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T15:31:53","slug":"huffington-post-founder-arianna-huffington-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=238424","title":{"rendered":"Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arianna Huffington, who co-founded the liberal news website Huffington Post 11 years ago, has announced she is to step down as editor-in-chief.<\/p>\n

She will leave the AOL-owned site to run a new venture, Thrive Global, she said on her Twitter feed.<\/p>\n

“I thought HuffPost would be my last act. But I’ve decided to step down as HuffPost’s editor-in-chief to run my new venture, Thrive Global,” she said.<\/p>\n

Thrive Global is described as a project designed to combat workplace “burnout”.<\/p>\n

In a media release, Ms Huffington, 66, says it is “a corporate and consumer well-being and productivity platform”.<\/p>\n

Profile: Arianna Huffington<\/p>\n

Across all nine international Huffington Post sites, there are 81m monthly unique visitors. It launched its UK edition in 2011.<\/p>\n

Tim Armstrong, AOL chief\u00a0executive, said that thanks to Arianna, the Huffington Post was a\u00a0“firmly\u00a0established\u00a0and\u00a0celebrated\u00a0news\u00a0source”.<\/p>\n

‘Journey’<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Huffington Post was launched on 9 May, 2005, pulling together liberal-leaning news reports, and as an alternative to conservative news aggregators such as the Drudge Report.<\/p>\n

She launched the site with the American businessman Kenneth Lerer and other investors.<\/p>\n

The site offers news, blogs, and original features, and covers politics, lifestyle, and entertainment.<\/p>\n

\"Arianna<\/span><\/figure>\n

“The journey of the last 11 years has exceeded my wildest expectations,” Ms Huffington said, referring to the HuffPost, as it is also known.<\/p>\n

“When I decided to create Thrive Global, I thought it would be possible to build a start-up and continue as editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post. Today, it’s clear that was an illusion,” she added.<\/p>\n

“As Thrive Global moved from an idea to a reality, with investors, staff, and offices, it became clear to me that I simply couldn’t do justice to both companies. Change is desperately needed if another generation is to avoid the burnout that all too often comes with success today.”<\/p>\n

Republican beginnings<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arianna Huffington was born Arianna Stassinopoulos in Athens in 1950. She left her native country to study economics at Cambridge University, where she became president of the Cambridge Union.<\/p>\n

She moved to America and in 1986 married Texas oil billionaire Michael Huffington. She played a major role in his election to the US House of Representatives in 1992 as a Republican candidate and in his failed bid for a Senate seat two years later.<\/p>\n

By this point, Ms Huffington had made a name in her own right as a figure in the Republican establishment and a key supporter of Newt Gingrich and other right-wing figures.<\/p>\n

But she left the party in 1996, and divorced her husband the following year, as she moved on a journey to the left.<\/p>\n

In 2011, AOL acquired The Huffington Post for $315m, and made her president and editor-in-chief.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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