The founder of the news website Huffington Post is to step down. Arianna Huffington says she is leaving the New York based company to work on other projects. The news aggregator and blog was set up in 2005, and has become one of the biggest digital-only media outlets in the world. Huffington is leaving to work on her new project Thrive Global, described as a corporate and consumer wellbeing productivity site.

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