Arianna Huffington, cofounder and editor in chief of the Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of 12 books, will serve as the 2009-10 Park Distinguished Visitor.
Tuesday, November 3
7:30 p.m.
Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall
Free and Open to the Public
Arianna Huffington is also cohost of Left, Right, and Center, public radio's popular political roundtable program, and is a frequent guest on television shows such as Charlie Rose, Real Time with Bill Maher, Larry King Live, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and The Rachel Maddow Show.
In May 2005, she launched the Huffington Post, a news and blog site that has quickly become one of the most widely read, linked-to, and frequently cited media brands on the Internet. In 2006, she was named to the "Time 100," Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people. In 2008, she was named "Media Person of the Year" by I Want Media, and wrote the introduction to The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging.
Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union.
The Park Distinguished Visitor Series
This year's Park Distinguished Visitor series is sponsored by the Roy H. Park School of Communications and the Park Center for Independent Media and made possible through the generosity of the Park Foundation.
Past visitors have included journalist and author Tom Wolfe, journalist Christiane Amanpour and political adviser James Rubin, filmmaker Ken Burns, author and political satirist P. J. O'Rourke, president and CEO of the Public Broadcasting Service Pat Mitchell, journalist Bill Moyers, and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Clarence Page.
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