Arianna Huffington will no longer be the director of ‘ Huffington Post , the site she co-founded in 2005, became one of the most read news portals in United States and present in other 13 countries in the world. The 66 year old columnist and writer will devote full time to his new start up Thrive Global , which will promote Health and Spa , a theme that is very passionate, “indeed haunting” in recent times. His latest book, “The revolution sleep” , he tries to show how nothing good for the health of human beings as sleep 8 hours a day , considered a proper “ luxury ” in an era of hectic pace of work.
“I sincerely believe that I could do both , but when we started build Thrive, I realized I really needed my full attention, “he said in an interview. “It ‘s important to know when one door closes and another opens and I feel that this moment has arrived.” The journalist has devoted a long thought to its editors with a post on Facebook that it enters into the merits of the decision. “Over the last 11 years Huffington Post has been the center of my life and I honestly thought it would be the last thing I would do . What we have done together exceeded my widest expectations. I never imagined when there were only four people to work in Los Angeles that we would have grown to the point that it became the most widely read news site in the world, with sixteen editions (we’ll get there soon) and the winner of a Pulitzer Prize . “
Arianna Stassinopoulos , Greek naturalized American after his marriage to the Republican congressman and entrepreneur Michael Huffington , had founded the Huffington post in 2005 with Kenneth Lerer and Jonah Peretti , with the intention to create a liberal-minded newspaper, an alternative to the more conservative Drudge Report . In 2011 it had sold the property to AOL 315000000 dollars, remaining the newspaper guide as Director and head of the ‘ Huffington Post Media Group (which included other media owned by AOL as Engadget, TechCrunch, Moviefone eMapQues) as President . After that AOL was bought by Verizon Communications for $ 4.4 billion in mid-2012, however, were doubts arose about its real position within the group, and its powers were reduced to the only newspaper management that bears his name.
the staff concerns about the real intentions of the director were increased further in April 2016, after the news of his entry in the board Uber , the San Francisco company that organizes the service of private transport. Someone, in the editorial, had raised doubts about the possible conflict of interest to how, from that moment, the newspaper would have treated the news on the Car-sharing . Huffington had replied that he would have avoided writing about Uber, remaining firmly on the paper guide. On June was then refurbished your contract as president and director of ‘ Huffington Post until 2019, reassuring his editors that he could manage without difficulties and conflicts all its activities.
Now comes the sudden change of course : “When I wrote to you in June, I was absolutely convinced of being able to drive the HuffPost during the construction of Thrive Global. But it became clear that it was an ‘ illusion when Thrive has gone from being an idea to a reality, with a lot of investors, staff and offices. One of the Thrive principles is to recognize when the time is ripe for the beginning of a new chapter , and for me that time has arrived. This is why I decided to resign from dell’HuffPost director. It ‘was really a decision hard , but in many ways inevitable, given my commitment to want to transform Thrive in a company with a global impact on how we work and live. “
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