{"id":45846,"date":"2016-08-11T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=45846"},"modified":"2016-08-11T16:01:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:01:34","slug":"arianna-huffington-to-leave-the-huffington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=45846","title":{"rendered":"Arianna Huffington to leave the Huffington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->REUTERS<\/p>\n<section class=\"cols2\">\n<div class=\"unit col1\">\n<article>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<div id=\"article_body\" class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"group-container \">\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.cnbc.com\/p\/gZWlPC\/cnbc_global?playertype=synd&amp;byGuid=3000542381&amp;size=530_298\" width=\"530\" height=\"298\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington said on Thursday she would leave the company to focus on running her new venture, health and wellness startup Thrive Global.<\/p>\n<section class=\"cols2\">\n<div class=\"unit col1\">\n<article>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<div id=\"article_body\" class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"group-container \">\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>&#8220;I thought HuffPost would be my last act. But I&#8217;ve decided to step down as HuffPost&#8217;s editor-in-chief to run my new venture, Thrive Global,&#8221; she tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Thrive Global, which will offer services to companies to improve the well-being of their employees, recently closed a Series A funding round ahead of a launch in the fall.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"inline_quotes\" href=\"http:\/\/data.cnbc.com\/quotes\/VZ\" target=\"_self\" data-gdsid=\"36444\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"VZ\">Verizon Communications<\/a> owns the Huffington Post through AOL, which bought the liberal American online news aggregator and blog for $315 million in February 2011.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I thought HuffPost would be my last act. But I\u2019ve decided to step down as HuffPost\u2019s editor-in-chief to run my new venture, Thrive Global.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ariannahuff\/status\/763700400314867712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To everyone at HuffPost: it\u2019s you who make HuffPost what it is. I\u2019m filled with gratitude to all the colleagues and friends I\u2019ve made here.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ariannahuff\/status\/763701189028540416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/08\/11\/arianna-huffington-to-leave-the-huffington-post.html\">http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/08\/11\/arianna-huffington-to-leave-the-huffington-post.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}