Van wie was Arianna Huffington?

Arianna Stasinopoúlou Huffington (Athene, 15 juli 1950) is een Grieks-Amerikaans auteur, distributeur, columnist en af en toe ook actrice. Ze is mede-oprichter en hoofdredacteur van The Huffington Post. Ze was een populaire Amerikaanse conservatieve commentator in het midden van de 90'er jaren, waarna ze liberaal werd. Ze was getrouwd met het Amerikaanse republikeinse congreslid Michael Huffington. Ze studeerde economie aan Girton College, Cambridge.

In 2003 probeerde ze als onafhankelijk kandidaat om gouverneur van Californië te worden in de Californische recall-verkiezing van 2003. In de MediaGuardian 100 van 2015 van The Guardian staat Huffington op nummer 94. Op Forbes' lijst van meest invloedrijke vrouwen van 2016 staat ze op nummer 70.

In 2011 werd The Huffington Post aangekocht door AOL voor 315 miljoen dollar. Huffington werd president en hoofdredacteur van de Huffington Post Media Group, die bestaat uit The Huffington Post en andere AOL-bezittingen als AOL Music, Engadget, Patch Media en StyleList.

In Nederland worden haar boeken in vertaling uitgegeven door A.W. Bruna Uitgevers.

Henry Bernard Levin (19 August 1928 – 7 August 2004) was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by The Times as "the most famous journalist of his day". The son of a poor Jewish family in London, he won a scholarship to the independent school Christ's Hospital and went on to the London School of Economics, graduating in 1952. After a short spell in a lowly job at the BBC selecting press cuttings for use in programmes, he secured a post as a junior member of the editorial staff of a weekly periodical, Truth, in 1953.

Levin reviewed television for the Manchester Guardian and wrote a weekly political column in The Spectator noted for its irreverence and influence on modern parliamentary sketches. During the 1960s he wrote five columns a week for the Daily Mail on any subject that he chose. After a disagreement with the proprietor of the paper over attempted censorship of his column in 1970, Levin moved to The Times where, with one break of just over a year in 1981–82, he remained as resident columnist until his retirement, covering a wide range of topics, both serious and comic.

Levin became a broadcaster, first on the weekly satirical television show That Was the Week That Was in the early 1960s, then as a panellist on a musical quiz, Face the Music, and finally in three series of travel programmes in the 1980s. He began to write books in the 1970s, publishing 17 between 1970 and 1998. From the early 1990s, Levin developed Alzheimer's disease, which eventually forced him to give up his regular column in 1997, and to stop writing altogether not long afterwards.